Delaware Valley College - Cornucopia Yearbook (Doylestown, PA)

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1939 HARVEST 21 1936 WE MADE our entry into the institution of our choice on April 15, 1936. Fifty-one new students, agriculturally determined, marched upon the campus from many states of the union, including Tennessee, Illinois, Ohio, In- diana, Missouri, Wisconsin, Maryland, and Kentucky. The enrollment was further strengthened by the June entrants who were quickly assimilated into the class organization. As is the custom, we mutts were given the official royal welcome by the S. S. A. on April 20. How well we recall Judge Blatt and his somber court of associates, instilling within us dire forebodings of what might happen should we stray from the straight and narrow. A lengthy list of Do ' s and Don ' t ' s was handed to us with the gentle admonition that one remained healthier by obeying them. We pitched in right after that to put together a successful Freshman Follies , of which the outstanding feature was the satire on the Senate. We are proud to hove been the last group of persecuted freshmen to be made targets for deteriorated horticultural produce and odiferous hen fruit in varying stages of incubation. Later in the year, we contributed to the entertainment of the upper classmen by staging a mock wedding which united Miss Chubby Schull and another mutt in connubial bliss. In sports, our class contributed its share of varsity material and produced several lettermen. In interclass sports we started off with a defeat in boxing, but we went down fighting. It was certainly disheartening after endless hours of pVactice, to take only three out of seven bouts. The interclass wrestling ended in a draw. The track and field meet was lost and so was the football game that was held on that memorably miserable, rainy Sunday morning in December. We finished our freshman year in a blaze of glory by ignomini- ously trouncing the juniors in basketball. During our freshman year there were several changes in the personnel of the faculty and the domestic department. Miss Lee Fine, librarian, who was popular with the students, resigned and was succeeded by Mrs. Maude Maines. Mavis Godfrey, the school ' s seamstress for so many years, passed away and took with her a living record of the old-time Farm School traditions and anec- dotes. Mr. Harry Brick, Social Director, resigned and Mr. Bernard Zeigler, N.F.S. ' 35, replaced him. Mr. Russell Weaver, a graduate of Pennsylvania State College, arrived to take a position as instructor in agronomy. Mr. Ben Zeider resigned as field foreman in horticulture and was succeeded by Mr. Aaron Lipman, a graduate of Rutgers University. Mr. Lipman left later in the year to take a position in the commercial world and was succeeded by Mr. Solomon Soskin, N.F.S. ' 29. Our advisors during this period of acclimation were Mr. Samuels and Mr. David Segal, N.F.S. ' 37. Our class presidents during this year were Gunther Croner, Albert Zilbertuler and Samuel F. Lupinacci, Jr.

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22 1939 HARVEST 1937 On Mctrch 20, 1937, the tyrannical seniors graduated and we became a group of exhuberant, free-breathing lot of juniors. We immediately assumed our new duties and made the most of lording it over the newly-matriculated Class of 1940. We began our second year of training for the year ' s series of inter-class sports events. First, we made history in Farm School by making a clean sweep of the boxing bouts, seven wins out of seven contests. This was fol- lowed, several weeks later, by the interclass wrestling which we proceeded to win, five bouts to two. After this we suffered two defeats in a row by losing the inter-class baseball game and the inter-class track meet. We blamed the baseball defeat on the fact that our baseball material in the class was of such high caliber that it was all varsity material, leaving none for inter-class competition. After the summer vacation period we resumed class activity and pitched in to put over a successful Junior Prom. It was held on Saturday evening, September 25, and was enjoyed by all who attended. Our last participation in inter-class sports was the freshman-junior football game which we lost, 12-0. Of course, our football defeat was precisely the same reason as the loss earlier in the year in baseball; the varsity caliber of our classmate was too much for mere inter-class competition. Just before leaving on the Christmas vacation, we made that momentous decision, chose our major subject, and for once became seriously thoughtful about our projected life ' s work. We made our carefully pondered decisions and prepared ourselves for the last lap of our Farm School careers. During the junior year three instructors left. They were Mr. John Thompson and Mr. Griffin Roberts, of the Dairy Department, and Mr. Reuben Yoselson of the Poultry Department. 1938 It seemed rather strange during the first few weeks of our senior year that we were the most advanced agriculture students of the school. It had seemed such a short time since we first entered, more timid and frightened as to what Farm School had in store for us than we were willing to admit. We plunged seriously into our specialized work and assumed all the worries and attitudes of typical farmers. During the latter part of the Spring, three new instructors were added to the faculty. They were Mr. Leroy W. Ingham, of the University of Maryland, and Mr. Morris Eisman, N.F.S. ' 37, both of whom were added to the dairy. Mr. Morris Plevinsky, N.F.S. ' 33, and a graduate of Rutgers University, was added to the staff of the Poultry Department.