Bridgewater College - Ripples Yearbook (Bridgewater, VA)

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we vgvfgay ff:1m,. - 1-.V 4' '-Pg.1,'HQ,.f321,, ww- L ,, 'E K . f ' if . REBECCA, to all of us who lived on cam- pus m e a n t dinner- time. Can't you hear the gong sounding, the Widening circles of silence as we Wait- ed for grace: then the scraping of chai r s , the rattle of china and silver, and the rise and fall of table- talk? Upstairs, of course, was the college home of the Rebecca girls. You had to be one of them to know all the mysteries of the up- per rooms, the py- jama parties, the late feeds, the busy phone.

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PERSONALITIES AND PLACES have a way of coming alive in your memory, especially after you have shared in their chan.ge and growth for years, oi- ten without being fully aware oi it. You suddenly re- member them and find it hard to recall a time when, they were not a part of your consciousness. THE SUBTLE BLENDING of a wide variety of things was a large part of the secret of Bridgewater. Remember how quickly and naturally the new stu- dent, the new building or the new routine fitted into the scheme of things?