University of Miami - Ibis Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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Senior rlut officer were Goldwvn, Salvatore, and Cawcl. Seniors No one WHO ENTERED as a freshman in ’41 could have accurately predicted what would happen to the class. When forty-eight seniors were graduated in February of this year, there were only twenty-four who had started at the hitter beginning and had gone straight through together. As freshmen, the class was the last green group to be bedevilled by the nasties of the Vigilance committee, fondly known as the V.C.’s. When July ’43 rolled around, the class elected Jim Ould president; Dottic Blanton, vice president; Judy I Opez, secretary; Audrey Goldwyn, treasurer; and Esther Rosenstein and Dorothy Parmelee to the senate. Squawking started about having an Ibis. They had had a Junior-Senior prom (under the guidance of Henry Wiener and Lefty Cole) even though it turned out to 18 he for the benefit of the Red Cross — so why couldn’t they have an Ibis? The February batch of graduates (who had all the fuss of the usual June commencement) included characters like Lil Alderman, Bobby Crim, Becky Jackson, Renee Greenfield, Barbara Neblett, and Dot Parmelee. For a while it looked like no more characters were left, but there were still Betty Batcheller, Ann Cassel, Judy Lopez, Audrey Goldwyn, Margaret Lund, Charlotte Motter, Betty Graham, Sue Ogden, and the two unspellables—Ed Szymanski and Lee Symansky, who all get (or got, depending upon our publication date) their sheepskins in June. November promises to get rid of Prince Brigham, Rita Grossman, Jo Mool, Hay dee Morales, et al. After the first part of the class of ’44 left, the seniors voted Jerry Salvatore into the presidency. Ann Cassel was elected vice president; Audrey Goldwyn, secretary; and Ed Szymanski, treasurer. Senators were Sue Ogden, Judy Lopez, and Virginia Byrd. The hardest obstacle that the class had to overthrow was determining just who and who was not a senior. The trimester system had everyone mixed up. But the lordly seniors showed the same attitudes that every previous senior class had demonstrated. All freshmen looked about twelve years old in the eyes of the soon-to-be-graduates; all hope for the University would be lost as soon as their class was gone, they thought. All politics, sororities, fraternities, organization, and social affairs would go to pot as soon as they left, they believed. They leave with a smug feeling about their accomplishments. But, beneath it all, they’re sentimental enough to know that the future of the University depends on the freshmen and that the future is pretty secure.

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Graduation plans were, as usual, very intricate. Picking up announcements and caps and gowns in the bookstore and learning the procedure for the commencement seemed too laborious for the wise old seniors. But they survived the confusion and finally got their sheepskins. Mutiny almost arose in the class when some eager members circulated a petition against taking final exams early. The scheme failed for lack of support, hut shrewd surveyors of the incident judged the matter as a plot perpetrated by the class president to incite his constituents to attend a meeting. Some of the graduates had their futures charted already. From the February class, Martin Graham and Ruth Schnapper at- tained nebulous positions around the U.’s science labs; Barbara Neblett became a cub reporter for the I lerald; Renee Greenfield took up with the News and even conducted a radio program on sewing hints. From the June class, Natalie Frankel and Vivien Feld plan to go on to the Law school, and Raschi Schorr, to Northwestern Med school. Bettic Harlow intends to do graduate study in music. Prince Brigham is looking ahead to a medical career. The immediate future of most of the male members of the class has been mapped out by Uncle Samuel who also had a lot to do with the increasing marriage rate which affected (or will soon affect) Bobbie Crim, Mary Jane Davies, Audrey Goldwyn, Shurley Maberry, et al.