Minnesota State University - Katonian Yearbook (Mankato, MN)

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.,' - 3 i'tffeif.95t i ' iw FRESHMAN CLASS THI5 freshman class this year showed a big increase over last year's enrollment. Thirty of the three hundred enrolled were one-year rural students: seven, two-year rural: one hundred and ninety, two-year regular students: and seventy-three, four-year pupils. Freshman week was held at the beginning of the College year. This was planned to enable that group to become acquainted with their new surroundings and classmates. Each girl had an upper classman appointed as her big sister. This plan, Sponsored by the Y. W. C. A., Newman Club, and Lutheran Club, helped a great deal to overcome any feeling of strangeness which existed among the freshman girls. Through their big sisters they became acquainted with others and were brought into the school activities. When the new students began to feel at home at the College, they were obliged to wear green caps and obey their superiors for one day. When a few bold freshies tried to ignore the order and appeared capless, they were severely reprimanded by an upper classman who came seemingly from nowhere. Most of the freshmen enjoyed this ordeal as much as the upper classmen. A party in the gymnasium was also held during this first week to give the students a taste of social life at the College. At the end of the Hrst week the new members of the school had been entertained and had provided entertainment: they had registered and become familiar with the class rooms they were to occupy during the next three months, They had had one gala week and were prepared to settle down to their studies and bec.ome three hundred more men and women of which Mankato Stare Teachers College can be proud. V Twvnly-Q E. 1 If fNi5'SZ:'E43T ' can to lr ia , ag ,, al l l I l l I I l 1 I l 1 l gil 1 'i l

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FRESHMAN CLASS PAUL TEMPLE . . . . . President LEOTA FOOTI-I . . . . Vice President LUCILE E. OLSON . . . . Treasurer ROBERT OTTO . . ......... Secretary RALPH ANDERSON . . . Student Council Representatives MARGARET ELDRED RENZA HALLS ALBERT MATI-IEWSON MR.'WILLIAMS'. . . . . Advisor

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