Wesleyan College - Veterropt Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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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

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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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Registration Finalizes Fall Schedules Wednesday of the Orientation Week is al¬ ways an exhausting experience of waiting in lines — at registration in the gym when classes are being closed out every minute, at the book¬ store when everyone on campus tries to buy their twenty books at the same time, at tele¬ phone sign-ups in the Rec Room when South¬ ern Bell requires three forms to be filled out for a single phone. But by the end of the day students felt settled in, at least for a semester. For freshmen, Peer Counselors provided en¬ couragement, answers, and support during the “adjustment period.” Thursday was more relaxing with the Mer¬ chants’ Festival during the day and a picnic supper at night providing an opportunity to meet Macon ministers and to sing together by the lake. H wo alumnae remember their feelings on arriving at Wesleyan as freshmen when the Rivoli campus was new: “l arrived by train at the Rivoli Station. It would have been humiliating had my parents driven me to college. ” Dorothy Quiliian Smith; ’32 “I remember well the feeling of awe as the train pulled into Rivol my first year. But then, there were those precious Juniors who met the train and welcomed me with warmth to the new brick buildings. The sidewalks had just been laid and were covered in many places with piles of day; however ; the Sophomores saw to it that we Freshmen corrected that on Sophomore Day” Lillian Pafford Tate; 32 20