Bucknell University - L Agenda Yearbook (Lewisburg, PA)

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■ i-1t? ' PT Officers — Mansuy, Steele, Reynolds, Armor, As in the final act of a drama, the cur- tain rose in September of 1940 presenting the final triumph o[ the class of ' 41 in all the glory of their senior year. After three years of preparation, they were at last ready to assume the honor and responsi- bility that their status demanded. They were organized into a working body with the election of Ray Armor as President; Matthew Mansuy, Vice-President; Jean Steele, Secretary; and Marion Reynolds, Treasurer. Practically all other offices of importance and leadership were be- stowed upon capable members of the senior class. According to custom, twelve outstanding senior women were chosen on the basis of their scholarship and con- tributions to campus activities, to reside in Owen ' s House. They were girls SE5nOR deemed worthy, because of their exem- plary conduct, of receiving additional privileges and being placed upon the honor system. The outstanding event that climaxed the year for the class of 1941 was the an- nual Senior Ball. Over one thousand couples danced to the melodious strains of Tommy Dorsey and his nationally- known orchestra, and fell under the spell of the vocalizations of Connie tiaines, Frank Sonatra, and the Pied Pipers. High- lighting the evening was the crowning of the Senior Ball Orchid Queen, selected by the vote of the student body by the balloting system. Ten maidens strolled down the floor of Davis Gymnasium and stood before the bandstand. As Ray Armor called her name, each girl stepped forward to receive a rose from the hand Along the r.cnior p.ith. Twenty -eight ' i ' y xiy.

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.lli )l. 1»- Jf- ♦ The Engineering Building, completed in 1940, provides the best of engineering facilities. ' ' ' Jl

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Buckncll Pljccmcnt Burcnu in action. We are: the girls of the Honor House. ' of the maestro. When her court had been assembled. Miss Rachel Carringer, at- tired in a gown of delft blue chiffon, was crowned with a wreath of laurel and pre- sented with an orchid. After cameras had ceased flashing, the dance was resumed, and until two-thirty in the morning, Bucknellians stood about the bandstand, and danced, enthralled by the melodies of the sentimental gentleman of swing . It may easily be said that this was the most successful dance held on the cam- pus in several years. The spring months fled by all too swiftly, bringing with them May Day and the selection of the Queen of the May, and finally — graduation. This marked the end of undergraduate days, and the beginning of a new era in the lives of 257 seniors. Aiding in locating positions for these Bucknellians was the Student Placement Bureau, maintained by the University. However, the final test was left to the initiative and ability of the stu- dent to find a place for himself in this muddled world, in the year nineteen hundred and forty-one. Tommy really beats it out! Behold the Queen ! Twenty-nme