Chatham College - Cornerstone Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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quiet rooms . . . patiently biding one ' s time for days, weeks, and months, waiting for the Shady- side Theatre to get a new feature . . . visiting the dinosaurs at Carnegie Museum . . . wondering, sometimes, when the cumulative pressure from reading assignments, papers, and exams became almost too much if Chatham was really worth it— and then deciding that it was . . . This was Chatham College, 1965-1966.

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pastime which is the special preserve of the col- lege student was played enthusiastically whenever an opportunity presented itself . . . the momentary panic and frustration present upon stepping into the shower, thoroughly lathering your hair, and then hearing the undeniable gonging of the fire alarm . . . Rent-a-cop was always around to pro- tect us . . . motor scooters caught on in a big way and Chatham girls leaped aboard, usually as riders . . . the anxious feelings generated in rat lab when you become convinced that your rat was mentally retarded and would never learn to depress the lever ... as did everyone and everything, Murray Hill steps became a year older, only they showed it more . . . the cacophonous riot of colors and patterns that passed redecoration in the private dining rooms . . . participating in the telephone hook-up on Vietnam sponsored by Yale and find- ing one ' s private thoughts wondering about how many friends would be directly involved there . . . Gateway ' s house-father . . . the large number of students that attended Dr. Alan Guttmacher ' s lec- tures on sex and the attentiveness with which they were received . . . pretty much the same old crowd continued to show up every Friday for Mr. Eddy ' s roundtable discussions ... if only the weather had cooperated. Activities Fair might have been more of a success but it didn ' t — it rained . . . people in Mellon and Dilworth watched the changing sea- sons reflected in Mellon Pond — winter is ice- skating for the children and fast footwork for the dogs; spring and fall the fraternity crowd takes over . . . tennis courts received their usual work- out from faculty and students alike and the faculty proved they could still move . . . buying books at the start of each new semester aroused interest and trepidation regarding courses, also depleted checkbooks . . . some of the big and little sisters clicked — some didn ' t . . . pleasure, pride, excite- ment, disappointment — Mortar Board and Phi Beta Kappa tappings evoked all of these at the formal spring induction . . . any hour of the day or night, chances were that there was a radio or a typewriter going in several otherwise intensely

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