Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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Freshmen IT ' S NOT A HARD matter to spot a freshman, say many of the older students. Now just what category they put the freshmen in is another tiling. Per- haps they are thinking of the lad who comes to the campus with a couple of axe-handles in one hand and a supply of hay-seed in his suitcase. That day ol the freshman is apparently over. The freshman today comes to college with a three- inch-checkered sport coat, sometimes a Ford V-8, and miu and then with a vocabulary of over seventy-five words. Definitely his status in college life is a stage, and there is little chance of evading it entirely. Ninety-five percent of the frosh deride to turn politico and run for scmic office. This ast number turns on the other five per cent of the class enrollment, who are usual- ly classed as non-belligerent, and practically smother them with political pressure. The result is that the five per cent who aren ' t running for office collect so many cigars from candidates that they, in turn, decide to become office-seekers during their sophomore year. €TIVITIES ' ■ t tm 1 Y wt Lji tf 1 m Wl m ■ ' C hP r ■ • JS ide A applies lo milk on!)

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CLASS OF 1943 First row: James Monroe Surles, Jr.. M. jean Sylvester, jr.. Louis Laverne Taylor Wiley H. Taylor. Jr.. Herbert Leighton Thompson. John Louis Thompson. Frank S. Todd. Arthur Samuel Triebwasser. Second roio: Parks DeWitt Trivette, Raoul Stark Trudell, II, Hugh Edward Tyner Robt. Thomas Veasey. Anthony Villanella, Douglas Clyde Walker. Jr.. John Samuel Walker. Doctor Ernest Ward. Jr. Third row: Maylon DeVan Watkins, William Thomas Watkins. Troy Dodson Webster, Samuel Michael Wehbie. Frank Miller Wellons, Harold Y. Wells, James Sunday Wells. Joseph Raleigh West. Fourth row: Adolphus Gill White. Fred C. Whitehead. Jr.. George Marshall Willets, Jr Royce Meredith William, John Kenneth Williford, Edwin Graves Wilson. Robert Bruce Wilson, III, Thomas Woodrow Wilson. Fifth ran : Wm. Sidney Windes. Kenneth Wm. Wodenschek. Harold W ohllord. Floyd Monroe Woody, Wm. Franklin Worrell. Jr.. N. P. Xanthos. Frank Zakim. (ft t » (ft jB fl OT f 00 O P HPfip ftp f P fs JJ h {ft st: ir» n • • 25

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Few first-year men are without an extensive knowledge of the leading swing bands of the nation. Sometimes they like to discuss the movie stars; and some of them are still trying to get screen tests to play Don Amechie ' s role in The Life of Mickey Rooney (Hollywood owes us for this suggestion for a picture). About half of classmen have been five letter-men in high school, but study too much to play football, base- ball, basketball, or tennis in college. They like to get on the same snapshots with the president of the college Freshman Brown does a bit of browsir, or the football coach. By the time the mid-term reports come out, the student has been looking around to see il any- one sees him when he opens his books to study. And by the time he gets back his first theme, he is looking lor a novelist who has a good rate on freshman themes. All in all. though, the freshman isn ' t quite so bad as some say he is. Wake Forest has been blessed with a number of good freshman student-, and a number of them have quietly worked their ways into the favor of their fellow-students. A