Assumtion College - Heights Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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BBpqjBOOEtijG w® S ophomore year, things seemed ro come together at first. We knew where we were living and hod friends here ro meet us when we arrived. We were rhe masters of lower campus with rhe freshman humbly falling or our feer-or so wed hove liked ro believe. Just os everything seemed ro be smooth soiling, on obstacle jumped in front of our ships from the depths of the registrar ' s office. We were asked ro declare o major. Our sails drooped with a sigh as we faced a question that could determine our lives. We began ro doubt. We doubted whor we were doing here and why we even come here in rhe first place. And worse, we began ro doubt ourselves. We made it that far, bur who ' s ro say we could go all rhe way? I guess you could say we confronted sophomore slump Then suddenly, like the clouds after a storm, we began ro answer our questions and ro discover who we are and why we came here. Without realizing it, we were changing, We shed our freshman attitudes and gradually crept toward a new self. Although we couldn T see rhe changes in ourselves, we had a new, good feeling within. So the warming winds of spring brought with it rhe promise of a restful summer and rhe anticipation of junior year. Sophomore year was a year of change . . . Lakers Win NBA Championship-3 CBS Employees Slain in NYC-Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn Win Academy Award £or On Golden Pond-Hinckley Found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity-Rocky Ill-Jack and Diane-Prince William is born to Charles and Diana- NFL Strike Over Wages-Princess Grace of Monaco Dies After Car Crash-Poltergeist-Diver Down-Flood Kills 12 in CT-Dukakis Defeats King-The Who-Chicago 16- Tylenol Laced with Cyanide-Final Episode of M A S H -Bruce Springsteen-Men At Work-Soviet President Brezhnev Dies, Andropov Succeeds-Aaron, Robinson in Hall of Fame-Empire Strikes Back-Truly- U.S. Space Shuttle Succeeds-Conno rs, Evert Lloyd Win U.S. Open. s

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Air Florida Jet Crashes over Potomac River-Nation Hit By Storms-Record Cold-49ers Win Super Bowl-Freeze Frame- On Golden Pond-Congress Asks for Nuclear Weapons Freeze-Pac Man-I Love Rock ’n’ Roll-University of North Carolina Wins NCAA Title-Porky’s-Mt. St. Helen’s Erupts Twice-Tainted Love-J. Giels-Richard Pryor Live on, the Sunset Strip-General Hospital-Ed Asner Wins Emmy Award-Sadat is Assassinated-Stripes-Don’t Stop Believing- The Voyager II Flies by Saturn-Leonard TKO’s Hearns- Simple, Sexy Clothes in ’81-Tattoo You-DC-10 Jetliner slides into Boston Harbor-Chariots of Fire-Hill Street Blues Receives Emmy Award-Dodgers Win World Series- Private Lessons-Air Controllers Fired-Endless Love- Hinckley Injured in Suicide Attempt. High School days are memories past, College days are here at last. The class of ' 85 are not your typical Freshman. Were the words of Le Provocateur as we entered our new dimension. Although these words might have been true, the things we did were nothing new. We ran to the mailbox, found fake I.D. ' s., snuck into the pub and had scoooping sprees. We waited for the shower and phone for our turn, the average things a freshman must learn. Gaining the freshman 20 was our biggest fear, but eating in the cafe wasn ' t the event of the year. Ray Boston played at orientation and welcomed us to college Life, and J. Giels played at E.M. Loews and kept us going thru the night. Jonathan Edwards brought us music on Spree day, as we enjoyed the other events on that day in May. Suddenly we were all faced with a dilemma, our dorms would be single sex starting in September. But to our freshman administration that was nothing new, because Greichen-Carroll Murphy were all the same sex too. Our first year at Assumption was over and done, We hoped our next three would be just as fun. '

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Sophomore year we came back to a slump. No kegs. No parties . . . we were down in the dumps. Most of us turned twenty and tried the local gin mills, Tammany Hall, The Loft, Casey ' s, Leitrum ' s, we couldn ' t keep still. Our attempts to convert lower campus to coed dorms Were defeated when we were told it was to stay the norm. Nevertheless our fun did not sour, The A.C. females had the all girl happy hour. Two bands came later to give us more of a start, They were Southside Johnny and Pousette Dart. Our barbec ue was the event that took over the spring, When Fernando DeSilva did the most memorable thing, He was standing there so innocent and cute . . . Suddenly finding himself in his birthday suit! Other events that happened that year, Casey ' s was enlarged and the pub opened six nights for beer. Enter Cyr-Bowler Murphy for a term Exit kegs - the decision was firm. And so ends a year very different from the last, To add to the other memories we have from the past. 9