Wesleyan College - Veterropt Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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As always, September 1978 was an eventful month at Wesleyan. A new Purple Knight class moved into Persons, Fall Convocation officially began the academic year, and the sophomores gave the freshmen a hard time on a certain day during Extended Orientation.

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jii.r IISBII oday, well lived, makes every tomorrow a vision of hope. Sanskrit The traditions we enjoy today are also an inheritance of times past. Our lifestyles now are different from those of fifty years ago — we listen to Billy Joel instead of Johnny Marvin; Jane Fonda is more familiar than Alice White; add-a-beads and jeans have replaced pearls a nd sweater suits. But we still scream at soccer games, act crazy before holidays, and practice hours for thirty-minute stunts; we still enjoy concerts and banquets and inviting guys to cam¬ pus and studying late at night. These more important characteristics of our earlier Wesley¬ an sisters have become part of us, and we share with the girls of the twenties the traditions and sisterhood that make Wesleyan unique. Now we are leaving our own inheritance. Every month we are originating new events that may or may not become part of Wesleyan life, but our successes and failures influence the plans of later students. As individuals and as a student body, our actions and attitudes are linked to tomorrow. The Wesleyan we are creating today is building the ideals of the future. I •■JfS ' U]l M

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Rivoli Welcomes Fiftieth Class The loggia was a scene of frenzied activity on August 27 when a group of excited freshmen arrived at Wesleyan for the fiftieth time. Their peer counselors were there to greet them and help unpack crowded cars. Loaded down with plants, boxes, and clothes, freshmen and P.C.’s transformed lifeless dorm rooms into homes within a few hours. Orientation activities began immediately, and included several parties and teas given by different organizations, planned getting-acquainted sessions, and the annual Merchants Festival. One goal of the week, get¬ ting the Purple Knight Class together, was ac¬ complished in more ways than one when a gigantic jigsaw puzzle was completed on Wednesday. Another new face on campus was that of Dr. Tom Boyd, Vice-President of Academic Af¬ fairs. Dean Boyd found Wesleyan a different type of college, remarking ' 7 am impressed with the selfless dedication on part of the facul¬ ty and students, doing things they don 9 t have to do. You don ' t see that type of involvement at other schools. I find the students a great joy to be around. 99 Fifty years ago, the Rivoli campus welcomed another new Dean, Dr. Robert Wiggins. He was also impressed by the dedication at Wes¬ leyan. “There is something about Wesleyan that particularly interests me and that is the type of girl here — an extraordinarily fine type of girl, with freshness of interest, wholesome¬ ness of character, co-operative Spirit, desire to help, and loyalty to the college and to fine ideals” 19