Roanoke College - Rawenoch Yearbook (Salem, VA)

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The students who came here, came from all over. They came from different states, countries, creeds, races, economic and social backgrounds. They came for various reasons. Some came because they wanted to study and learn, some because they wanted a social life, some because they didn't want to get drafted, some because they wanted to get married, and some because it was the only college to which they applied that accepted them. Their reasons were as varied as the people themselves. There Was, however, one common bond among them+they all had to learn to live together. So they called us the Roanoke College Family. It was 'something to laugh and sneer at to some, but a feel- ing or warmth and being a part of something to others. The majority busted our school. Every day a derogatory comment could be heard against Roanoke from one of its students. Once, however, an outsider said something offensive. We fought back. It was ours and only we could talk against it. w l N ' ...sz

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They rounded the Commons corner, they unloaded from the local buses, they wore trench coats over nightgowns they parked their cars under uno parking signs and hurried off to class. When passing to and from, all . shared like anxieties and anticipations, but they all had different hiding- places. Some sat and played bridge in the Cave, others congregated in Bittle Hall, others returned to their rooms or home, and others went' to Powell's. It was only at night that the distinction became clear between the day student and the res-ident. To the townies it meant a chair at the dinner table, a family argument, and a quiet room. To the resident students, night brought quiet hours and the chuckwagon. It meant birthday parties and bridge games in the study lounges, congested bulletin boards and dirty sheets in the dorm rooms, and conversations distorted by mouthfuls of toothpaste in the bathrooms.