Wichita State University - Parnassus Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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All dormatory residents get over that initial apprehension in very little time--all but the staff that is. They keep hoping the worst cannot happen. Four years ago I moved into Grace Wilkie Hall. I knew I was the only scared freshman in that big, hot lit was Augustl building. I would not have believed it at the time, but I was not the only newcomer standing in a room full of boxes with two unmade beds, three keys, and a folder of formidable looking regulations. Things were not as bad as they seemed to me though. That folder of regulations contained such things as a meal schedule, a list of what was to be shown at the Flick and some rules like: do not burn the building down, breaking mirrors brings seven years bad luck, and keep the noise down after 7 p.m. Those boxes were quickly emptied and the beds were made after my roommate came. She was not an ogre either, much to my surprise. Even more amazingly, of ,the 22 girls on the floor, only eight were not new. We got on so well that the only casualty was our Resident Assistant. She heard quite regularly about our adventures, and constantly reminded us that the people on the floor below were about to form a lynch mob to put us out of their misery. my css! nDA33g..wnNlwn1v TW 'Nr Featu resf195 'A r

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1961 Featu res Ask all of the 15500 students attending classes at W.S.U. where they live, most of your answers will be something like, down south on Seneca , or over at Wheatshocker , but nearly 400 will answer, Me? I'm a Dormie. Defining a Dormie is not quite as simple as defining a Martian or a Kansan. I have known Dormies from Ohio, New York, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Wyoming, Thailand, Germany, from almost every spot on a Kansas map and even a few from Wichita. They major in Logopedics, English,