Chatham College - Cornerstone Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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either no snow or too much . . . bridge games on Woodland sun porch — before lunch, after lunch, before dinner, after dinner, ad infinitum . . . mix- ers — bane or boon of any college girl ' s life, de- pending on whom she met, didn ' t meet, or both . . . the soaring joy of having something in your mailbox and the crashing despair when it turns out to be inter-school . . . orientation and the crush of attendant feelings it generates for the freshman — hectic activity, too much together- ness, too much aloneness, and finally the con- tented middle ground of familiarity . . . hurried cups of morning coffee in the snack bar and lei- surely ones in the afternoon while chatting with friends — professors and students . . . psych ma- jors continually spiriting people away to serve as subjects — Honest, it will just take a few min- utes! . . . the new station wagon for student use in community service projects . . . opinion board ' s innovation and some of the spirited dialogues car- ried on in it . . . the excitement and happiness generated by each pinning and engagement and the silence surrounding the broken ones . . . senior key dorms were finally approved and excitement reigns regarding their trial innovation next year . . . Honor Board and the Honor Code — what they stand for, what they are based on, do they work — these questions continued to be subjected to close scrutiny . . . student voting participation in all- school elections improved while the number of people willing to accept responsibility, give up time, and run for such offices declined . . . the academic freedom issue was a compelling one for perhaps five or ten per cent of Chatham stu- dents — it is true this was the year of Berkeley but Berkeley and Chatham are eons apart . . . the off- campus scholarship job program went into its sec- ond year and provided rewarding experiences for some students, frustration for others . . . amidst the even heavier than usual pre-vacation crush of work, Christmas parties for faculty children, for the Kingsley House children turned some of the cynics back into humans, at least momentarily . . . quick naps on the quad . . . never-ending searches

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fBH $? Homecoming was — well, it depended on whose side you were on: Notre Dame-69, Pitt-13; West- ern Reserve-2, W J-O; Harvard-13, Yale-0 . . . thread of continuity supplied in the arts course by syllabus staple . . . meager excitement generated by Mr. Rovitto for APP when compared with Mr. Goldwater ' s effect the year before . . . Harold Bet- ters and his group swinging in Woodland for the NSA fund drive dinner — one of the year ' s high spots and a revelation for all the under twenty- oners barred from the Encore . . . that first shat- tering college exam — Western Civ, wasn ' t it? — and the uneasy night preceding it . . . acquiring handsome Rea House as another elegant dormi- tory . . . the demure gray-and-white cat who at- tended Honors Convocation and all the students who didn ' t ... all those hours spent standing in line in the business office waiting to have a check cashed . . . upon viewing Jean Erdman ' s The Coach with the Six Insides — Do you really think it will make any difference if we stay for the third act? I haven ' t been able to figure out the program notes yet! . . . the tired satisfaction of knowing you did well on a final that took all three hours and more — or the grim ache when you know you didn ' t . . . Get up for breakfast? Are you seri- ous? . . . changing the scene from the snack bar to the chapel lounge and formalizing that grand old student pastime, the gripe session ... the zest and excitement generated by the choir auction, amiably and energetically presided over by Mr. Ossman . . . The Shaft . . . those many frenetic and secretive rehearsals which culminated in an- other night of Freshman Entertainment ... ex- tending class hours in an attempt to escape the necessity for Saturday classes — resulted in some people programing out lunch for a semester, sometimes two . . . arriving at the decision to raise the activities fee ten dollars after another year of financial strait-jacketing for several cam- pus organizations . . . Atco, Juguna, Mihma, Mou- dar, and Tadac — and so the battle lines formed during Mr. Chastain ' s simulation experiment . . . a dearth of ski weekends this season, owing to

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i - ' nirl for that never-ending stream of missing library books . . . continued frustration as physical edu- cation continued to be figured into one ' s cumula- tive average . . . continued refinement of that au- tomated miracle — registration by computer . . . the curious mixture of feelings upon arriving in September, slightly different but again curiously mixed feelings on that last day in May — and the difference in these feelings for a freshman, and for a senior . . . the grim tenseness of study week and finals . . . finally a Parents ' Weekend and it was worth waiting for a year — hopefully there won ' t be any further schedule mix-ups that will necessitate it being cancelled again ... the delight with which Once Upon a Mattress was received by the audience and the scintillating zest with which it was put on by the cast . . . participation between Chatham and Alabama ' s Tuskegee Insti- tute in a student-exchange program . . . choir trips and bus break-downs and What do you mean you forgot your black dress and pearls? . . . plans for renovating Buhl resulted in shortened semesters, a shortened spring break, and feelings that time was passing even more quickly than usual . . . caroling at Christmas-time, ending with cocoa and doughnuts at the Eddys ' ... Mr. Eddy ' s Hum- bug button . . . the pitfalls of computerized ro- mance as evidenced by Operation Match and the edgy embarrassment of getting the names of two other Chatham girls and your roommate . . . that disturbing feeling of nakedness for those first few hours after dedinking . . . perpetual thought and frenetic activity going, as always, into lining up that summer job . . . exam schedules made their usual late appearances . . . inevitably, when pack- ing for vacations, books were the first items to go into suitcases, followed by more books and then by more books . . . airlines announced their half- fare student rate plans and the number of hours Chatham girls spent in airports soared . . . trans- fers both to and from ... the grim battles waged with those infallible tapes in language labs . . . streetcars continued to rattle past Pelletreau on their way downtown . . . Do you know? — that