Central Michigan University - Chippewa Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, MI)

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The vacation over, two students return bag and baggage to the dorm. NJust a few more trips to the car . A . t, Another Year Begim. . . ttRaise your finger when you hear a sound? Dick Reava asks. Stu- dents in the speech and hearing field help test freshmen in hearing during orientation week. Soon ifs time to have your picture taken for the CHIP. Carolyn Deyett, Grayling senior, poses pertly for photographer. In September the arrivals, from those early ones facing orientation to the tardy ones facing late registration, re- newed the pattern of hsehool day? collegiate style. The new Centralites became acquainted to college life during a week-long orientation period. They were shuttled through a battery of tests to determine intellectual pro- ficiencies and then a health examination to determine phy- sical dehciencies. T0 the neo-Chips, the buildings soon became more than landmarks, the people more than acquaintances. They were then ready to join the upperclassmen in registration. College registration can be a tedious task. There were the forms to be fllledJ the waiting in lines to be endured, and the money to be paid. And when it was over, the gates to Central opened wide. This is one test you donat have to study for. Nurse Opal Thorpe takes a blood sample for further testing.

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The plays opens on a plot of ambition, youth, and learning. The setting is the V CentralMichigancampus.Propsinclude campus buildings and facilities. The cast of characters numbers nearly four thousand students. There is a mood of studied casualness, scholarly aplomb, and carefree goodwill throughout the drama. Photography samples the members of the varied cast in their activities and attitudes. Graphic entrances and exists are made by the students and faculty. Atmosphere is established by the smattering of tragi-comical expressions of those actors and actresses engaged in high concern or high relaxation. Local color is provided by the incidental and unstaged: a bounding ball, an open textbook, :1 coffee cup, at papered bulletin board. Dramatus Personae revolve in a world of their own, a world comprised of on- and ofT-campus pursuits. Figures and outlines form a skillful choreography by Happenstance. The audience for the performance is you. the reader. Let the curtain rise on a presentation of the college year 1957-58.

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Your ID and matriculation cards are ready; your schedule docs not in clude any 8 oyclockus; so you wait in line and hope they Class isnut full. Your Hrst schedule ends up in the wastebasket. Starting the year OH in good formWifs yusigninq inu time.