Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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t ULat f ate a { 1944 It was an eventful experience, that first day in Bridgewater that terrifying day of new faces and angel robes. Were the bewildered freshman at Waterloo so soon? Not we! We soon became acquainted with such personalities as only a sophomore class could possess. Initiation week under their kindly (?) guidance was pretty hectic. Who has forgotten the popular rag-curl hairdo, the varied signs which gave each of us identity, and the midnight walk of the freshmen boys! Upon our return to a more normal life, we discovered that our class was com- posed of outstanding individuals which made it an outstanding class! It was during our freshmen year we received our introduction to speech- making in the auditorium! We can ' t forget the pounds we lost « while waiting in the pause between the Miss — or Mr. — and the fortunate name of the one who was to give his speech. Sincere appreciation of this course came later. Time passed quickly. The night before the Christ- mas vacation we attended the most beautiful banquet of the year, the Christmas dinner. After a restful vaca- tion we came back to face the inevitable grind, prepa- ration for mid-years. Who of us can forget the red- letter day in Miss Pope ' s social usage class when she presented us with our first report cards and we in turn breathed a Thank You followed by a question mark! With April, however, came spring and with spring, spring fever. We freshmen recovered in time to finish the year successfully. We arose, our arms laden with oak boughs in trib ute to the seniors. At last we were sophomores!

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z o ' cwie ' c y l lembcc vj; tlte k Lh Alden, Arthur Antone, Michael Averill, Harry Bagnall, Earle Beaupre, Pauline Blount, William Brady, Florence Britton, Everett Bruni, Robert Buck, Marcia Buckley, William Carbonara, Pauline Carroll, Marjorie Chassey, George Clarkson, Lois Clemence, Robert Clifford, Paul Connolly, Robert Conroy, Margaret Cushing, Margaret Cushman, Ruth Dee, James Doel, Dorothy Dolan, Arthur Dowd, Margaret Dzenowagis, Joseph Fallon, Theresa Farrell, Leonard Fihelly, Ruth Forte, Dina Francis, Jean Francis, Lucille Frazer, Edmund Goldthwaite, Dorothy Goodman, Harriette Gottschalk, Sophie Hayward, Helen Herlihy, Ralph Hinckley, Phyllis Karelitz, Shirley Keeler, Karolyn La Belle, Dorothy La Couture, Bernard Lanzillo, Charles la Spada, John Lopes, Olivio Mayhew, Ella McKenzie, Harold McNeill, Mary Murstein, Beatrice Noonan, John O ' Byrne, Frances Osborne, Marion Paradise, Ann Pierce, Doris Reilly, Mary Sattler, Mildred Stanton, Frances Starkey, Mary Sullivan, Barbara Thompson, Marion Tolivaisa, Newton Tolpin, Jean Zatuchny, Leonard Zeidman, Dorothy Now serving in the Armed Forces of the United States of America. •{27}

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College got off to a beautiful start the fall of ' 41. We were the sophomore class and we didn ' t let anyone forget it, least of all the unhappy freshmen. We were able to look down upon them with a genuine air of superiority. They did dis- cover after that first week that we were human. Old friendships were revived and new ones were made. We were more or less familiar with the college now. How we enjoyed our new seats in the auditorium, the drugstore snacks between classes, and dancing in the gym at noon! None of us will ever forget Decem- ber 7 of our sophomore year — nor the noon of December 8 when the whole college sat stunned in the auditorium while over the radio President Roosevelt formally declared war, after the treacherous attack on Pearl Har bor. A new seriousness enveloped the college. Boys who had given little thought to fighting enlisted and in less than a week ' s time our own sophomore class had proudly lost some of its members. After Christmas vacation we were besieged by a myriad of activities. Basket- ball games claimed the attention of Bridge- water fans for several exciting evenings. On February 13 Mardi Gras, the colorful biennial celebration of the French Club, was held amid gay surroundings at Boyden gym. In March the orchestra concert took place in the Horace Mann auditorium, and on May 1 the Women ' s Glee Club presented its concert in the same hall. Bridgewater can do it! and Bridgewater did it. Who can forget the days we spent at 200 Newbury Street straightening out the broken, disarranged packages of gasoline rationing cards which reached the State Department in such a state of upheaval. W. A. A. held its annual banquet on May 20 with Miss Priscilla Nye, a former faculty member as guest speaker. On Fri- day evening, May 29, Bridgewater night at Pops was enjoyed. We existed through exams that first beautiful week in June, and then before we realized it, we were juniors. This September we tripped gaily back to B. T. C. to see what the junior year had in store for us, to see our new schedules, and to view in the casual man- ner so characteristic of juniors the new freshmen — quite an inspiring sight to be sure. The rumbling of furniture being moved from its old location by the rotunda to the new office, formerly Mr. Durgin ' s old math room aroused our curiosity. We soon discovered that the old office was to be a reception room donated to the college by the Plymouth County TrO-JAi fe School