Mount Holyoke College - Llamarada Yearbook (South Hadley, MA)

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1). Marston, JB (Chairman: J. rijrlit. President: I). Vt iek.es, N ice President: I) Dodpe. See ret ary To the campus student government association means: A flaxen-haired, bright-eyed Jan Wright whose eas smile, cheery word, and profound thinking are never dulled by organizational routine . . . Pay-days, constitutional revisions, mpiired general as- semblies. alphabet committees, dog-cared underlined rules books, tension-packed elections, and the hocus- pocus of preferential, weighted, or majority-plurality balloting . . . A channel for student expression for suggestions and Jan Wrijilit and Mr. Cettcll criticism . . . To the S(r officers, committee heads, and members of Pep Vssembly, it means: Lengthy discussions in an atmosphere of l»az smoke curls, clicking needles and sharp minds . . . The challenge of finding solutions to problems new and old: voting changes, scheduling of house-president ap- pointments, cause dinner selection, parents day with May Oueen pros and con- . . . u OG songbook with a probable mustard spot, the pos- sibility of washing machines and uhilr wool socks . . . “ N point of order and let's take it bark to the dorms 19 light in tlie mimeographing room - haven of pastel jolm notices: and a thick-piled green carpet that helps tired feet . . . and a deflated ego.

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It Mount I1nlvoke honor is a priori I hmm of the individual. honor of the group. honor of the college It is the foundation oj student government, I n huilil u narking organization on such it construct In not lose the ideal in triviality Is a hope. To strive and occasionally fall short Is not to fail I ’or it is i i the striving I hut progress is made.

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M. knight. P. Cass. H. Daniell, I). Marslon. Chnirman: M. Jenkins, S. Heincinan, F. Marlin. J. Cain. hotter late than never Tlu locus of honor is in each individual but materialize in judicial board under the nine ere and lirin leadership of Diana Mars ton whose thoughtful blue eyes bespeak her poised eompostire and alertness of mind. Not to lose the ideal in triviality is the hope of JB, a congenial group who at times is awed by its responsibility: to stand between the students anti the administration—and be justly representative of both: to balance personal conviction and prejudice against the purpose of a common task: to weigh a girl’s weaknesses and her strengths, and make a decision that is right: to believe sin- cerclv in the cause of honor ami to expre ss this laitli to others. a group that laughs together over: the flurry of knitting needles and ash trays after the last ease has left : the assignment of th original penal- tv: the echoing cries of “Where’s your light?” to a Heeling bicyclist soon absorbed in the darkness of a frosty night. hitch-hiking strictly prohibited 20