Augustana College - Rockety I Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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Looking out of the windows of the stacks at the super- ficially green lawn, strolling couples, and barely Howermg foliage wus fatal on a late March afternoon. During the days swollen with activity, it was hard for you to fmd time to study and Still more cllf-hcult to End the will. Church services, crack meets, concerts, club meetings, coffee dates, and informals; audiology, Plato, embryology, world literature, instrumental conducting, and basic principles of speech; tests, papers, tending notes, analyses, lab reports, and daily assignmentsispring was for you a whirl of half consummated impressions and consummate activity. Ya, tins 1'55 Friendship Fair! was the German wniter's answer flt the black bread anal sauerkraut banquet in the German garden atmosphere of Potter Hall. Cosmutarna Fair unfolded an international panorama of boeths from all countries under the twirling globes suspended in the blue ceiling of the gymnasium. Somewhere in the jostling throng of people you felt the strange staccatos of music and conversation patter around you, and the vibrant colors and colloquial costumes gave a hint of the picturesque wlth the unfamiliar. Suspense permeated the atmospherE; it could almosr he touched in the tension and perils of booth construction and was there in the rousing rush of the Fairigoers, the hilarity and cadence-faSt tempo of tht- auction, and the all-jmportant announcements of awards and achievement. Suddenly, the Fair was over; and only the ttampled tickets, the torn crepe paper, and an Env dtliblc memory remained with the tangible realization of the fulEllment of an idea and the satisfaction of an accom- plishment. Demanding a last burst of energy and gaiety, finals knelled the end of the year, and formal: gave a last diversion of :1 college career to many, For the last time the senior walked around the sun dial walk behind Old Main as an undergraduate and. matched down the gymnasium aisle for a diplomaeyou've passed four years of living and learn- ing at Augustana. At first you ate not sure if you are happy or sad, and then you know you are feeling an in- eongtuous mixture of both. KlAugustana, we thy children as of old, sing thy praise in song unending; -and sud- denly you are overwhelmingly Ibarzleffrf. Books are packed in boxes, and the bulletin boards are ready to be stored away. You are a different person for having been here, and you are looking forward to next yenrens 2m Augieite or an alumni. WINDING IT UP wilf: tbe him! comilrencemem Janice: in Jim gym, Ilsa gmdmriug jem'orj Mew Angmtmm for the Jar! time at IHM'EF gradlmret. 19

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