Ashland University - Pine Whispers Yearbook (Ashland, OH)

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ful Through the 2O's, 30's on through the sixties, visitation rules between young men and women were closely guarded. A young man had to meet the house mother first and be escorted by her to the female's room. Doors remained opened and in the lat- ter sixties, house mothers could spot check to see if the young men were keeping one foot on the floor. l ,L lt Et 'V'f-m--v- - ' .ft ' P I' Wife,-4,4' A i, Tm -M s 1-.45 1 A.. 'S ., We 1 Yqgfswj tt 1 tfmrr' 'g15m'x31 ev .fwwizffi-,uf -5 - A house mother The social life was rather limited in the early 1900 s' the campus was suffering from a lack of funds. There wasn t a maintenance crew as we know of, but the first natural mowing machines were goats. Yes! Ashland College was once a goat pasture some 77 years ago. V ,:. ix., -Jlzx ,g.,i:.:'i,'A-V A ' gl' gig, . F, . -Bt M4f?12'?: I 5 ,155 W ' ' ' i TX. -A' .'1':u-.fist -. 1..4,. . f L - .'-. -, - H ,W 3 -'rw ' . ' . 3. ...- :,, '- - v FY.. .I S . ,. .. V. 5 K-an-Y ,wut - X rg-W-z. . 1 15, -1 ' 4 r Vx -tr4g3 jJ-rg,-kai . 1. fi f. Tfftf ' ,. tr3l'1 1 A ft-nil-'f2.iii i 5 sw 4 if if A. f C ' - Y fkfkgwgl gi . 5, Wt .' 1 .51 . -. . - if .1 -1 . wftstfisi-f .-.....i.'4 ' ' '-,,,a..M. ,da f',gg,.,g,gg5 -N' .N ' -7 r--,' A E 2 512 L? Y its Radio time social thing to do as a college student was to kidnapp the goats and place them in such areas as the belfry of Founders Hall or the old gymnasium during a midnight raid. Eventually a man was hired to rraintain the campus and the goats were put out to pasture somewhere else. And in the 1920's a new tradition was begun by the senior class. And because of this fact a very - Women of Jacobs i

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One tradltuon that hasn t mysteriously disappeared IS that of May Day The flrst Nlay Day was held nn 1917 but was quite a but different from the celebratlons today lt was One other function begun later was the annual fall homecoming These two functuons were the hlghllghts of the school year Untll the early 1970 s a May Queen and a dance around the Maypole was a must' But today the May Day Queen and maypole have glven way to llve bands and other forms of entertainment The tradl tional fall homecoming Queen and Court are stall observed today during this time that the students demanded some public form of a social gathering. f1 - -. . : 4 9 5 it ', 2 - -I 1 1 A' .,-1. Q . 5 , 1 - lil H 351 53-fitf rw 1 ,,,.v 1- I hw- ., - r , Vxhf-, ' A. U 55 l tit 4 9 May queen Q-:fx Y ii D231 l - Old student union