Bluefield College - Rambler Yearbook (Bluefield, VA)

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CAN YOU REMEMBER WHEN. . . The Three Tragic Tenors trio was un-officially established, consisting of Guy Clatterbaugh, I. B. Alley, and a freshie . . . Nancy McNeal resorted to the old-fashioned idea of tongue- twisters in order to stop the hic-cups because she was afraid people might think she was slightly tight . . . Rush Holt's dou- ble in the person of Chemistry Prof. Sutton was considered so cute by Emma Sue Phelps . . . Blanche Lazenby decided to get married so she wouldn't have to work, but suddenly changed her mind when she saw how much easier the tortures of education werehthan matrimonial strife . . . Some mischievous pranksters pushed lim Kahle's semi-ancient limousine of the Ford variety over the campus hill . . . Al Howard slept most of the time at the Naval Training Base in order to take advantage of the compara- tive solitude which the barracks provided . . . Shy Ulvert Moore enveigled his mother into letting him bring the car to school one day in order to avoid being properly razzed by the boys on the street car for carrying a peculiar corsage of marigolds and other atrocious flowers to a certain fair lady who was an admirer of nature's beauties, including Fuzzy . . . Mr. Bradshaw claimed he was unaware that substitutes for the Navy were called sub- marines . . . Adelaide Flash Bailey expressed the desire to be kidnapped by the cave-man type of masculinity . . . Mary Mar- garet Helmintoller was dubbed Grand Duchess of Tazewell County . . . Erdine Griffith and Bed Iarrett reached the hand- holding stage . . .Marvin Lenett caused so much disturbance in one of Dean Owen's classes that he was urged to move before he caused a severe case of the jitters . . . O'Dell employing the English period in which to doze . . . Mattie Sue Horne and Iohn Shrewsbury constantly parked on the steps chatting blissfully . . . College soph. mistaking Prof. Hassay for one of the students, and trying to win his attention . . .Mrs. Sexton entertaining the History class with a rendition of the National Marine song . . , Blaylock decided to refrain from being the bearded beauty . . . Chris Cash's definition of a kiss as nothing divided by two . . . Wirt Mingo's admission that he is so slow he would probably be late to his own funeral . . . Peanut Simon's continuous banter of witticism . . . Bed Duffey gave his big dance . . . Mrs. Greever was revealed to be a distant relative of Sir Ioshua Reynolds . . . Harriett Moss decided to venture down the paths of matrimony . . . Prof. Marable demonstrated his terpsichorean talents by per- forming a dainty dance before his startled English class . . . Mrs. Griffith was termed Grandma because she treated the boys so swell . . .The Sophomore class had several turbulent meetings . . , Ben lohnson kept the Administration building filled with smoke from his flashlight photographs . . . lanie Marie Lam- bert earned a reputation for being the proverbial campus snooper

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CAN YOU REMEMBER WHEN . . . and unearthed all of the dirt that was fit to print, and some that wasn't . . . The craned necks of the crowd at the football game when Shirley Poster made a late appearance with the newest campus romeo . . . The candy shop below the Dining-Hall where the students gathered to try out the newest dance steps . . . Lucile Saunders was termed the typical Gracie Allen . . . The crop of bristle which Herbert King sprouted checked any doubts of the theory of evolution . . . Immaculate star basketeer, Bob Sheffield combed his hair during a game so that he would look nice for his feminine following . . . The final exams for the first semester actually marked finality to some of the students' educational ambitions . . . Van Keyes had the ambition to be an income tax collector . . .Mary Edmondson was an admirer of Tex Yeager's perfect physique . . . All of the girls of two sororities appeared for classes the day following a bombastic basket-ball game dec- orated with a conglomeration of bandages as evidence of the hair- pulling scrimmage which they went through . . , Spencer Barrow had a constant yearning for chewing gum . . . Blanche Lazenby wistfully remarked that she could sit for hours and gaze at Red Duffey's shining optics . . . Amateur photography became the vogue around the campus, and judging from the freakish poses, some of the students could have gained prominence in a baboon burlesque . . . loe Phillips was considered the answer to a maid- en's prayer . . . Capricious Chris Cash brought a pan of ice to cool the Girls' Loafing quarters on a frigid winter morning . . . Peanut Simon advised those who appeared late for Dean Owen's classes to greet him with one of those tooth-paste smiles and all would be forgiven . . . lane Elizabeth Rhoads offered to do a fan dance for those interested . . . Betty Smith considered O'Dell the life of the school, as well as her secret passion . . . Bane Underwood almost succumbed from complete exhaustion after taking one of Miss LeGrand's two-hour tests in a little less than an hour . . . Edna Pearl Harman made five hundreds on that many six weeks tests . . . Eula and Sarah Tate made the boys blush with embarrassment at their superior ability to make the baskets throb with their continuous scoring . . . Elizabeth Garry was the only girl in the Engineering class . . . Virginia Lee Porter- field made everyone wonder where the horse was when she appeared at frequent intervals dolled up in riding breeches . . . The Valentines at the Sigma Theta dance suggested Cupid so vividly that several of the boys and girls exchanged theirs for a romantic promise of love . . . Mrs. Trent was astounded when she was told that she and Edna Pearl Harman looked like twins . . . The reverberations of joy which abounded when it was discovered that the Campus Chatter black-list no longer existed . . .