Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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contents pag introduction . 1 administration 7 classes . . . 17 organizations 55 athletics . . 103 school life . 147

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cool autumn afternoons brought c. c. ' s sports fans to fill the stadium at washburn . . . football and our fighting championship team filled our thoughts and days . . . homecoming . . . then hockey . . .basketball . . .baseball . . . but dancing as always proved our most popular sideline . . . jitterbugs and sad- dle shoes . . . formals and strains of Stardust ... oh sure, we did have classes . . . courses in war ec and french . . . sessions with the books, with labs, with term papers . . . red cross and first aid took up our time ... as did chapel and lennox and coking . . . we had our traditions . . . our frosh-soph fights . . . our kangaroo courts and dog club rituals . . . belt lines and bemis com- mons . . . ' tis all these things we wish to remember . . . these things which made c. c. for us ... 10 through the mediums of publicity we try to recall these things, around the spirit of a newspaper we built our nugget . . . this book, its pictures and its theme, we hope typify the year of 1941-1942 for those of us of Colorado college.

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■ dedication enter new each year a class of mighty freshmen . . . mighty new at all this college life . . . entrance tests and picnics . . . rush week settles with a bang upon the freshies . . . perhaps a bit bewildered but soon wise to the truth that they are defi- nitely the center of attraction of all sup- posed high and mighty upperclassmen . . . green ribbons and black sweaters soon ap- pear to make it easy for old students to pick out green, but new and interesting, frosh . . . freshman dinks bound over cam- pus in a frantic doubletime . . . sophomores take over bemis . . . act old and important trying to avoid that threat- ened sophomore slump . . . supervise belt lines and kangaroo court . . . attempt to prosper financially by selli ng elevator tick- ets to up and coming frosh . . . come third year, juniors scurry around, suddenly aware that by this time one is supposed to have a major . . . realize at last that they are upperclassmen . . . put up a brave front and manage such affairs as the junior prom and the nugget . . . seniors have no trouble occupying their time . . . concentrated studying . . . with more and more activities . . . putting out the tiger, managing the school . . . then homecoming, football games, Christ- mas formals for the last time as under- graduates . . . spring brings more studying and comprehensives . . . recognition of achievement in who ' s who . . . phi beta kappa . . . and finally senior week . . . senior sneak day . . . senior prom . . . class day . . . and at last, commencement . . . but well outlined as these classes may be in themselves, thev are not unities each standing alone . . . they are only a part of the undergraduate student body of Colo- rado college . . . this student body is the whole . . . without each of the parts it would be an incomplete failure ... so it is to all the undergraduates that we dedicate this book ... in picturing the year ' s ac- tivities perhaps it will show better than words that Colorado college is not only for . . . but of its members.