Pfeiffer University - Chimes Yearbook (Misenheimer, NC)

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guidance and ability will long be remembered The class officers — bow we selected the best of our clan to lead us: Gordon Clarke, president; Max iMeeks. vice-president; Alice DuBose. secretary: and Jane Williams, treasurer. Classes! How new, interesting, and I might add. difficult each subject, each research paper proved to be Studying unimportant things, at first, but, by the aid of a patient faculty member, gaining recognition for our outstanding scholastic, athletic, and aesthetic achievements Organizations Coming closer to God in the spiritual influence of campus and religious life. Dances, flowers, and guests! Our ohs and ' ahs upon the thrill of our first college formal Intramural Sports! Outside games the keep em rolling campaign. Our Sunday journeys to Wesley Chapel Service Remember the handy, keep-all. sell-all college store, the Y Annex: Oatmeal cookie, please! Wili you want to remember our agony in trying to come out tip-top in our exams? Remember the Festival of Nations, the all- school banquet with a dance afterward: could Max Meeks be surpassed with his English accent? Not a one of us can have reason to leave out that impressive week-end of dedication: the three new buildings — Henry Pfeiffer Chapel. Arts and Industries Building, and Washington Hall. Mrs. Pfeiffer and her radiance in her helpful giving . . Then came the end of one glorious, eventful year. The curtain descends on Act I reminiscence drama September 12, 1943 found forty-five Sophomores registering to help our not-too-understanding but enthusiastic-to-learn Freshmen to cram transferable subjects in The autumn dance — picture its beauty and sublimity Visiting teams on Sunday Long Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays I can still feel the sharp thud of a hard snow ball on my head from a group of crouching boys on the passageway! Led by four efficient officers our class had many escapades: Gene Melton, pres- ident: Pee Wee Fowler, vice-president: Sara Courts, secretary: and Sarah Spratt. treasurer. The trip to Albemarle to the show on a special bus. chaperoned by our sponsors, Miss Thayer and Mr. Moser . . . The anxiety of Heart Sister Week! The noble Washington Ball where George and Martha reigned supremely! The triumphant glow of the Sophomores when Sneak Day arrived! The W. A. A. sponsored dance where sprightly walked the Posture Queen! The anticipating of the May Festival; the May Pole Dance; the dance in honor of Her Majesty that evening Worried we were near the end, but resolute in will: finish with flying colors! How we sighed and breathed a prayer of gratitude for those sheepskins. The library closes as my reminiscence now ends — my reverie has been lengthy but full of magnificent memories: so I stop momentarily — to close an endeared record of two complete years. Our busy week Our registration, my trying trying

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FRESHMEN OFFICERS Mary Elizabeth Nisbet President SAMUEL ERWIN Vice-President LOIS GRUMSTRUP . . . . Secretary Robert Davis Treasurer As the 1943-44 Freshman Class entered college many questions were raised in our minds: Is it worthwhile to begin, when I may be drafted? , Should I go to school or enter essential war work. ' ' and the age-old ones. Will I pass? , Will they like me? , and Will I like college? These misgivings quickly vanished as the year progressed, and we found that we were quite capable of meeting the bug-a-boo of college life with a grin. Some have been drafted and the uncertainty of our times has not made this a fully serene year, but the Freshmen can look back on this year of college life with pleasure. Page Twenty-three