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

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5. s M Showing the new students around the campus, making them feel at home, and answering their puzzled questions are some of the duties the Freshman Orientation Committee are faced with during the days of orientation. Seated on the steps, first row, Doris Craven, Kay Arant, Pat Alphin, Jim Abernathy ; second row, Bruce McDaniel, Joe Hough, Jim Greene, Dick Gordon; third row. Rick Cousineau, Jim Stines, Bobby Gaddy; seated on the ledge, Charles Reid, Bill Burris, Coy Privette, Johnnie Hendren, Carwile LeRoy, chairman; and Bruce Thompson. ; Absent: Gene Boyce, Wilfred Winstead, Sylvia Messick, and Pat Mast. Freshman coed Joan Pierce staggers back to the dorm under a load of newly purchased textbooks. The initial visit to the book store usually shocks the new student into a realization that he is at last in college. Freshman meets freshman and friendships are made at the dance given for new students by the Student Council as a part of the orientation program. For the first time new students have a chance to meet their future clas.-iniates First Impression v l. 13

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Rising majestically against a backdrop of magnolias, the archway of Wake Forest College stands prepared to greet incoming students. The gateway to Wake Forest has long symbolized a new home for freshmen and a homecoming for old students. Hey, Brother those freshman girls aren ' t bad! Don ' t just stand there, boys, help those girls with that luggage. My dream has come true to be on third floor Bostwick. Barbara Pate, Durham, N. C, and Elizabeth Ann Wright, Ocala, Fla., receive the usual hearty Wake Forest welcome from the male students. ' I ' liis ciilsodc lici;;iii sdiiie clulitrcn i. ' ;us iiuo wlii ' ii a (.TV .select iiroup of liabies made their initial aji- |ic,iraiic ' G. It seeiii.s their sole raisoii d ' etre was to heeome the current freshmen at this institution and in Sejitenilier theii- ilestiiiv was fnlfilk ' d. Like all freshmen fi ' om time nmnemoriul they anixcd with the usual regalia of cashmere sweaters, ainyli ' SOX, and endless questions about the ])lacc which thi ' v would soon chei-ish as theii ' Alma Mater. , N.uiie l)adi.vs. i,c|i r.allies. Iioiihrcs. hours of reo-is- tiatioii ill the i yiii- -the fii ' slmien knew all these. There wei ' c the usual so|ihistic.-ites, cute iiumhcrs, i ' ;im|Mis chai-ai-ters, and e cii those who i-.ime to study .111(1 study only. Tlie hoys assumed a lilasc air for the coeds, and the ' in turn Mere impressed hy the hoys. Kveii ,a freshm.iii uiil knows wli. ' ii ifs wise to he duiiih! Ilowc cr, tlu ' V had in loiiimou one shiiiinn ' hope th.it hcic they would find ,i home .-iw.ay from liiiiiie. There is one hcjiiitiful tliini ' .iliout f rislim.aii lu-ieiit.ition- -it tinallv couu to an end. Name badges .arc lecfidly disc.iidcd : f|-cslmiaii cha])cl becomes ;i Ihlii of the |i.isl: ;iiid the W.ike Forest Familv has nrou n lar vr.

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Lucky enough to have gotten into the Registrar ' s Den to get their transcript copies and to fall heir to a ream or so of paper in the shape of administrative forms, Frank Wyatt, Jack Bailey, and Bob Johnson start the registration marathon. Registration Brings Confusion There is one station in the registration rigmarole that all the initiated hate to visit. Bill Beach takes a fiendish delight in handing out the little pieces of purple-smeared paper at the Ditto Card Station. Instr.-ul of t,,i1iiiv clianiliers at Wako Foivst a sy-,ttin kniiuii as iTn ' ist r.itioii w.is iiist.ilk ' d luaiiv y .-irs a d. ' I ' liL ' wIkiIo tliirio is irally vny Niiii|ilc. TIk ' fii ' Nt |HT|-f(iui itc is t(i v a iii.-istur jnoMln-. . ft.T tniir L ' ais Iii.-iiiy sludi ' iits Iwtx- liccoiiic |iliifi ' ssi()iiaU. ( )iic must ni.-in.am ' clu ' i ' khoiik, t ' laiiitaiii |h ' 1i, |iiiik slips. wliitr slips, liirm slictts of |i.-i|ur, .■iiid (■ tiriiK ' i ' tinv liits (if pairliiiKMit all at oruv. ' I ' lif first stop is the |{rii|st rai Otfi.c. Simply liy tclliuii yiiui- iiaiiic yon .-ire i;i rii appnixiiiiatflv sixtx slu ' i ' ts of p.-iptT lu ' iuiiiii ' ,aiioiis ami suii(lr clioicc liits of iiifonnation liclpfiil to the studiMit. Hv inist.iki ' oiiu studi ' iit ;is handed n racnm ' foi ' in. . (-(HipK ' of li(Uirs ,it tiu ' Hnrs,-ir s ( Itticv. and then to the n ' viii «liere fnn really liet;ins! l ' ' iist. find (iiii ' .idx iser. wliieli is in itself a r.are .aeeoinplishnieiit. Tell him wh.it yon winld like to t.ike -he tells yon wli.at yon will take. Then siun lip for voiir courses, lint rememher all ix ' i|uired courses are taiin ' ht the s.niie ptriod. Iliuirs pass — finally when dusk .itheis .mil the first st.-irs .■ippe.ar, N ' oii have all voiir cl.-isses assiuncd, .■iiid the end seems near, lint iio-- oii must li,-i e .1 Chapel seat assit;n- iiient. So yon h.ave performed all these feats of skill with- out :i miirmnr. Sonieone savs. Th;it s .all! Von are overcome with emotion .-ind staencr out of the door. .Inst ;is yon re.acli the hottoni step. s,,iiieoiie rushes out. ur.-dis von. dr.ies yon li.ack .and siniis (iii lip for Miiir llowi.iai pictiiri ' .appoinhnent. Craw line ' on all fouis (in leave- dead.