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Phan Ce As she was pinned with the paper pinafore symboliz- ing the office of Freshman Commisisoner, somehow a lump came into her throat. She couldn’t quite realize that she was among the fifteen from the freshman class selected for this honor. Happily she dressed “rag-tag” for initiation, carried an egg around precariously, and “made like a siren” when someone calied “Air Raid!” That night at supper as the out-going commissioners came to their table with a song and a flower for each of them, the lump returned to her throat for a moment. How can she forget the excitement of choosing plaid material for the pinafores or the thrill of making plans for greeting the freshmen the next year! Perhaps it was then that she fully realized her responsibility as a Com- missioner—the importance of helping new students adjust to college life. It could be that the lump came to her throat for a moment as she stood on the steps of Memorial Dormi- tory the first day of Orientation Week; but she soon forgot her excitement in the bustle of getting the new students settled in their rooms. That bewildered girl stand- ing among her suitcases and boxes—how she r esembled a certain other green freshman last year! And so the com- missioner offered her assistance with a smile, carried lug- gage upstairs, and even stayed to help hang curtains. What a hectic first week that was! If she wasn’t carrying suitcases up to third floor, she was bringing empty boxes down to the basement. There were hours of planning parties for the freshmen, waiting tables in the dining hall, visiting her “little sisters.” Commissioners posing as members of the K.K.K. pulled these three—Dottie, Sylvia and Sing—up to trial. There were the quieter moments, too, when she got acquainted with the freshmen and discovered what a wonderful class they were. There were the things she couldn’t express—the good feeling from saying the right word to a homesick girl or answering a puzzled fresh- man’s question about college life. The job of Freshman Commissioner did not end with Orientation Week she soon discovered. The birthday dinner planned by the Commissioners was one of the high- lights of the year. The pinafore girls were also in charge of a High School Weekend. Finally, the day came for the selection of the next year's Commissioners, nominated by the retiring freshman class and Commissioners and elected by Student Council. How proud she was to see some of “her girls” step for- ward at the ceremony. And as she pinned the pinafore on her little sister, there was that old lump in her throat again. LEFT TO RIGHT: H. Johnson, Raf- telis, Hamilton, Owens, Kolb, Clark, Dr. Grannis—Sponsor, Barnes, Cooke, Drose, Boland, Finch, Stogner, Ligon. BELOW: Sing, Molly, and Nancy get help on that unpacking from Betty, Chairman of the Commissioners.
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—— The fun of decorating Richard- Be errs CHEE because so many of us were chosen to represent the various clubs. The Hockey Tournament and Banquet were just before Thanksgiving. There were seven honor members from our class! Cynthia Sullivan, Polly Jordan, Lenorah Baggett, Doris Kirk, Betty Crawford, Billie Jewell Kissane, and Sylvia Pennell walked away with the honors. A bunch of forlorn girls. That was us—the day our Mamas left us at Coker. Some of us were persuaded to come, same had to be dragged, but a few came quite willingly. What were we doing here? What did we know about college life? Nothing, absolutely nothing, we were freshmen. We were kept pretty busy with parties, movies, and swim- ming those first few days—so we wouldn't get homesick, I think. Nevertheless we got kinda blue at times. You know the old saying “Misery loves company?” Well, speaking from ex- perience, we freshmen can tell you that truer words have not yet been spoken! When classes started we were never so dumbfounded as when we learned that there were homework assignments for the very next classes! Who did these teachers think we were? (Students?) Classes weren’t too bad, though. We even came to like some of our teachers. The Hobo Party in the gym was the beginning of our initiation! Everybody wore a ragged costume and paraded in a circle so the judges could see which of us really looked like a hobo. Margaret Segars was crowned King of the Hobos and Pam Pennington and Fran Moore, who went as Siamese twins, were crowned Co-Queens. Some of the upperclassmen must have thought that we were feeling at home before we were supposed to, because there are only two words that I can say concerning the initiation that followed the Hobo Party. No comment! The days meved rapidly and believe it or not, we were learning something. We became acquainted with frogs and spiders and worms and cockleburs the day our Biology Pro- fessor took us on a field trip—our first Civ test braced us against the rest of college life—and some of us learned the hard way that it’s best not to hide in closets during a Re- quired Function. When October rolled around we no longer had our minds on classes for we were excited about our first college dance. We had almost as much fun helping put up decorations as we had dancing. With Mrs. Sisson as our freshman class sponsor, we began our practicing for the Song Contest. It was very plain at our first practice that we had a lot of work ahead. We practiced and we practiced and pretty soon some of us knew all three verses of the Alma Mater. It took only one practice to learn the words to our pep song, and we thought it was really cute. We were full of vim and vigor when the day of the contest arrived, and were breathless and nervous until the judges handed in their decision. Soon, we were yelling to the tops of our voices for we, the Freshmen Class of 1956, with Lauran Mc- Master as accompanist and JoAnne Fox as director, had won the trophy for the singing of the Alma Mater. It took a good bit to deflate our swelled heads! November arrived and we learned that our successful class was well represented on the Academic Probation list. But the Beauty-Cutie Contest held that month helped inflate our egos, Pam Pennington and Fran Moore as Siamese “Queen” and Mar- garet Segars as Hobo King. son Porch for Christmas. Which one of you freshmen got the peanut? 13 fory After Thanksgiving holidays we elected Donna Davis and Shirley Land as representatives from the Freshman Class to Christian Council. Camellia Chinnes and Barbara Dibble were elected to Athletic Council, and in the midst of all these goings-on we elected class officers: Betty Crawford, President; Cynthia Sullivan, Secretary; and Patsy Maxwell, Student Coun- cil Representative. The Beauty-Cutie Contest winners, announced at the Christ- mas Dance, gave us something to brag about. Sara Jean Long was crowned Cutie Queen! Fran Moore and Nancy King were in the Cutie Court and Holly Mims, Patsy Norris and Joan Watt were in the Beauty Court. For a Christmas project, we made Christmas tags out of old Christmas cards to supplement our treasury. We, also, deco- rated the parlors and porches for Christmas. Everyone worked, and several “original” ideas were used . . . the most successful being the Mistletoe ball (kissing ring) on Richardson. Finally our Christmas holidays began with two whole weeks at home. The thought of coming back was pushed out of our minds. Exams came and went. I will not dwell on that subject. We had fun in February during the Volleyball and Basket- ball Tournaments. Our class was very co-operative for about three-fourths of us signed up for the Volleyball tournament. We were disappointed when we almost, but not quite, won the Basketball Tournament. Winter turned into spring and it was election time. We felt that we were practically full-fledged sophomores . . . par- ticularly when the sixteen humble and grateful girls were in- stalled as Freshman Commissioners. A great responsibility rested upon their shoulders, but such an honor accompanied it! Another freshman project was undertaken in May—we sold cute little May Baskets that we had designed and made. Everyone looked forward to May Day and worked wholeheart- edly to make this one the best ever. The May Court was espe- cially pretty with our freshman representatives, Betty Crawford and Donna Davis, contributing the “especially!” School came to a close after we had had some more exams. A whole year at Coker! We, the graduating class of 1959, had completed one whole school term! Dean Kuehner had warned us, as freshmen, of the soph- omores who thought they knew everything. But we knew bet- ter. We were sophomores now and we did know practically everything; but we had respect and consideration for our elders. We would pretend to know nothing and let the Juniors and Seniors display their “knowledge’—after all, they were here first. Mary Kay Huggms Commissioners and C.C.C.A. Sis- ters helped Freshmen move in the dorm.
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