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the Faculty and the town police, half the
senior class lurked for two hours on the
parkway, but the townies never got past
the corner drug store.
The Fall Dance came around, but unfor-
tunately few people noticed its presence
until afterwards. lVlr. Irving had at one
time announced that it would be cancelled,
because of lack of interest, but perhaps
much of the failure of the dance might be
attributed to the thinness of our pocket
books. When Thanksgiving came around.
we sent in a new petition to the Faculty
for an extended vacation, but they counter-
ed adroitlyg in a word they said no.
which cryptic statement they accompanied
with an editorial to the Exonian, saying that
they were awfully sorry, really they were.
Perhaps next year's student body will win.
The winter term brought snow for the
skiers and, at times, ice for the hockey
team. The ski team had a very successful
year, beating Andover twice. The hockey
team made a poor start, but picked up
rapidly during the season. They finished
off in the Boston Arena, beating Andover
3-l. The other teams fared less well,
however, and only the wrestling team came
through victorious.
Salty started a new tradition with his
"Senior Teas", and on several evenings l5O
boys went over to his house to play ping-
pong, sing songs, and guzzle cokes Iand
teal for three hours.
The Pacific Coast Club put on a spectacu-
lar publicity campaign for the Winter
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Dance but succeeded in arousing the pas-
sions of only about 90 boys. Weeks before
the dance they had hung a huge red tin
sign over the main quadrangle, and they
sent out printed cartoons and a mock
Exonian, exhorting each and every son of
Exeter to come to the dance.
Harold of the Shamrock sponsored a
minstrel show in the winter term, and many
of P.E.A.'s top entertainers, including the
newly-formed jazz band, the Stompers,
helped to put the show over. The Stompers.
a Dixieland outfit that sprouted from the
Royal Exonians, boasted several seniors
blasting out their music.
March ll, the fateful day, arrived, the
day that would decide our fates. We
sweated for six hours over mystic symbols
and impossible problems, thrashing our way
through the college boards, But the day
ended at last. What would it be? a PC. or
Sam Houston Institute of Technology?
. . ,My name was called. I walked to
the platform to receive my diploma. As I
walked back to my seat I looked at my
classmates. Some were sad, others happy.
Next year they would be spread all over
the country. Some of the boys I had known
I would never see again, others I would
meet again in the years to come.
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