Broome Community College - Citadel Yearbook (Binghamton, NY)

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1950 PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK

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THE HORNET’S NEST Once inside the portals of State Tech, the bewildered freshman enters a nest of bustling activity. From that time on, he is caught up in the buzzing atmosphere of complex courses, humming motors, hurrying students, and is kept busy as any bee. This is one of the reasons that the Citadel staff chose the ‘‘Hornet’s Nest’’ as the theme for the 1950 publication of the Citadel. Even the huge fortress-like building itself, which houses State Tech, assumes the air of a hornet’s nest. State Tech’s colors, black and gold, also belong to that ever- active insect. Our theme is apparent in the social life of the State Techer, when our ‘‘Queen’’ is chosen to reign at the greatest social, ‘‘The Queen of Hearts Ball’’. In the field of sports, so important in our college life, the ‘‘Hornet’s Nest’’ is again suggestive, for our basketball team, officially dubbed the ‘‘Hornets’’, does in- deed resemble its namesake, as it streaks down the court stinging to defeat almost all opponents. The baseball team too has developed a sting. The State Techer himself may also be likened to the hornet, for with the courage and tenacity of his namesake, he has clung to the slide rule and typewriter to become a member of the class of ’50,the second class of graduates. It is for this class that the Citadel staff has endeavored, with the publication of this book, to retain memories of friends and events in the Hornet’s Nest. The class of 750 will buzz no more through the halls of State Tech, for like the hornet who migrates from the mother nest to build another, they too will buzz out to make a beeline for their own new nest.