Bryn Mawr College - Bryn Mawr Yearbook (Bryn Mawr, PA)

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ANN SYBIL CAMERON Politics YOLANDE MASCIA DOMVILLE History SHIRLEY FISH Politics PATRICIA H. KELLER Economics HELEN HUNTINGTON MARTIN MARGARET THOMURE MORRIS English French MARY-ELIZABETH MEULLER Politics ANN SEIDEMAN Psychology DOROTHY JOAN SUNDERLAND History of Art Page twenty-seven

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MARTHA DORRIS BARBER History SARAH BEAMAN MERION Merion ' s atmosphere can be cut with a knife. It is the oldest hall and is known campus-wide for having and at- tracting more characters, for having more dates per capita and more escapades than any other. Every once in a while, an epidemic of idiotic fiascoes breaks out. These range from Lost Mondays at Princeton to periodic New York binges and bicycling down the Atlantic City boardwalk at 6 a. m. Five of the fourteen seniors are already engaged, which leaves only nine to be frustrated school-teachers and librarians. Hall life centers around the smoker which has clasped to its bosom (littered with tomato juice cans and cigarette butts and discarded mail) such personalities as Chuckles and Herman, Cupcake and Rabbit , the ditchdiggers who used to hold seminars there on existentialism, and Uncle Mike , ever game for a beer at Fords. Sheila is always there, squashed into the sofa reading either The New Republic or a Big-Little book, waiting for the stroke of midnight when she can get up and collect her miscel- laneous political thoughts for a paper due at 9. Sitting cross-legged in an enormous Indian blanket robe will be Skip, spouting ideas, facts and opinions or passing around Aunt Hattie ' s last letter and envelope decorated with pic- tures from Burpee ' s seed catalogue. Conversation ranges from men to men, sprinkled with a bit of college gossip or a smattering of opinion on world affairs. Here Bob Lindsay Day was evolved, reputations are made and unmade, and the cud of vacation and week-ends is chewed. The Show-Case, decorated in the Victorian fashion with curved sofas and lion-footed tables, is the scene of polite chatter over the after-dinner demi-tasse, and the hullabaloo of Lanin ' s hall meetings. Among those playing bridge on the floor will be Kippy and Shirley Fish, who spent last year in Geneva. Others of the international set are Molli, in a cable-stitch sweater, looking like a fashion plate from Vogue, who spent last year at the Sorbonne, and Sally Beaman who came back from Zurich with a fiance hailing from Chestnut Hill. From the deep South is Syb with a Scarlett O ' Hara waistline and a father who is footbaU coach at Duke, and also Norma Jane with the distinction of having become engaged two and a half weeks after she met Alan. Yoey ' s claim to fame is a black leotard — enuf said! NORMA JANE BERNSTEIN English Page twenty-six

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SHEILA TATNALL Politics KATRINA THOMAS English The Merion hunger drive is adequately remedied hy three meals a day from the college, hy the hookshop, the Community Kitchen and the Hearth, 5 a. m. breakfast at the Blu Comet and hoagies ordered from Mariani ' s to fill in the cracks. Patty Keller and Holly are invariably accom- panied to dinner by their swains who evidently prefer the Bryn Mawr kitchen to that at Haverford. There is Katsy who holts her food and Sunny who needs to be fed intra- venously, and upstairs in the tea-pantry Seideman brews coffee to stay awake while she counts clothing for the Merion Cleaning Agency. (In between collecting clothes and recruiting Psych subjects, Annie runs Self-Gov. so smoothly that we barely know it exists.) The tea pantry has even been known to have been used for cooking whole chicken dinners, as when Christmas dinner was served to a group of Penn law students in the silent study. However, the straw that broke the camel ' s back was when a Haverford-man appeared at breakfast. Bathrobed and bandana-ed tired-eyed Merion simply could not take prunes and Haverford at that non-speaking hour! Orig ' inally the fourteen seniors were only part of twenty- eight extremely noisy Freshmen who used to stare aghast at the erudition and eccentricities of the class of ' 46. Never, they thought, would they reach such a state of worldliness and peculiarity. Imagine Kat ' s surprise one night when after bounding up the steps and shaking her date firmly by the hand, she leaned over the signing-out book and heard a Freshman still out on the porch saying: That ' s the hall character! Seniors they are at last! LEAVE W SMEAR THE CAMLIEfl Page twenty-eight