Dominican College of San Rafael - Firebrand Yearbook (San Rafael, CA)

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toast and marmalade, movies, and clothes-chute es- capades of a Friday night . . . Hallowe ' en and a certain fire escape . . . sticky fingers and scary whispers from a surprise birthday party . . . constant California versus Portland debates . . . the homesick-aloneness of first nights . . . the don ' t ' s and do ' s, the stolen shoes, the laughs and jokes, the making friends with folks . . . initiation . . . the beating hearts and scared date-await- ing at freshman reception . . . blue slips and parental- wrath expectancy of first reports . . . the sense of be- longing imparted by our first Shield Day . . . the sand, sea spray, and wonderful dinners at Bolinas . . . serene knowledge of having made a good choice in Patricia McLaughlin, Helen Grennan, Patricia Franks, and Jean Kelly, our class officers . . . seeing types— the stay- up-nighter ' s, the go-to-bed-earlier ' s, the calm all-the- time-studier ' s, and the I -don ' t-care- if- 1 -flunker ' s around final time . . . rosy cheeks and cold noses, candle wax, and warm hearts, a ' caroling . . . the reservation scramble, the last minute packing and the Be sure and write ' s of pre-Christmas vacation . . . letting the home-phone ring on and on with subconscious Meadowlands philosophy that someone will answer it . ..the why didn ' t you write ' s and the oh, dear, I forgot ' s — the new faces and old of a new semester ' s beginning . . . the happy, free talk, the grove smokes, 75

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THE FRESHMEN lEADOWLANDS, with its kindly, wooden face 11 holds a heart warm with memories . . . A tall, wide fir (some insist it is a baby redwood) standing guard before the house . . . the slim fragrant eucalyptus and feathery poplars that frame our view of Tamalpais . . . quiet peace from the glow of the Sanctuary lamp in a twilight visit to the little chapel . . . cheerful warmth of a bright fire after Library . . . 74

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and hanging out windows during our before-one- twenty-five breather . . . sloshing happily up to Fanjeaux in pouring dew on a dress-for-dinner night . . . the stocking-caps . . .the knee-length socks . . . Hawaiian hulas from island girls . . . the lazy spring feeling a quince blossom evokes . . . spring and Easter vacation . . . hollow expectancy of finals . . . abrupt and startling realization of the never-againness of Meadowlands freshman life . . . and the uncertain mixed emotion of the first year ' s end . . . These memories may pull a familiar heart-string in old Meadowlanders, but they are ours. They go with Meadowlands nineteen forty-six, forty-seven as we know it, and present to Dominican a memory pan- orama of . . . The Freshmen. Rene Brooks ' 50 BOOK WORLD I wandered into a new book. And found beneath my casual look, A land which stretched beyond the lined Demarcations which now bind The earth to me. I walked a new strange world of mind Completely free. Marguerite O ' Reilly ' 50 76