University of Maine - Prism Yearbook (Orono, ME)

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SENIORS

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■ In memory of Carleton ( ). Wilson, of Medford Hillside, Mass., ;i member of the class of 1936, fatally injured April 22, 1933, this section of the Prism is dedi- cated. 28

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SENIORS i Cobb President As seniors, 317 ■ Five years ago, the presenl Senior class was in the process oi graduation from over a hundred New England high and preparatory schools. Four years ago, it.-, members met for the first time, as Freshmen, in the University of Maine. Then, like so many other freshman classes before it. it took up the difficult task of acquiring a col- lege education. There were engineers, agricultural students, foresters, and arts and sciences students. By the end nf the year, the class had Inst some 50 of its original 47-1 — the largest number ever to enter the University. Still more left during the sophomore and junior years were left. The class was perfectly normal. It performed in the same manner as ether classes had always performed before it. As individuals, its members sat in bull ses- sions, congregated at soda fountains, smoked class pipes, and sang the Stein Song. As a group, it participated in class warfare, went to class dances, and supported such activities as seemed de- sirable, among them the Student Loan Fund. For four years it heard parents and friends advise concerning the best years of life. It studied chemistry, philosophy, and education, and while bemoaning prelims. probably was convinced that the parents and friends were right. I he cla had its share of the campus talent as classes always do. It had athletes and aesthetes, men who kicked the pigskin and men who. over tortoise shell glasses, perused Milton and Keats. Milton MacBride was the class president his Fresh- man year. When he resigned, Paul McDonnell was ap- pointed to succeed him. He was re-elected as a sopho- more. After that, George Cobb held the office. I liis is the story of the (lass of 1935. nly a month remains before it will leave the University. ( nly a month as 317, then fewer and fewer until finally, 25 years later, it meets in reunion jubilee. Well, other classes have done the same. Vgnes Crowley (to] secretary, and Kenneth Black, treasurer 30