Coker College - Milestone Yearbook (Hartsville, SC)

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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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