Earlham College - Sargasso Yearbook (Richmond, IN)

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their curly locks hidden beneath those crepe paper hats. Our sophomore year brought Hell Day, The Banner, and Sgueezie. We planned that banner for weeks before Homecoming because ours had to be good, lt must be symbolic somehow. We blinked a little when we saw Midge's complicated design of Earlham Hall, but it was ideal and she was so reas- suring that we took courage and went to worlf Pieces of maroon and white material covered the floor of the Stu- dcnt Parlor as an energetic crew of zcamstresics under C'well's able direc- tion scwctd awa, Our efforts were well rewarclcd that evening when, after days of warli, our pride and ioy was paraded through the dining room before the ad- miring cyes of our schoolmates. lt was .-K' MARY LOUISE ROBERTS ROY HAMILTON FRANCES HUNT that night that, being sophomores, we kept the bell ringing every hour on the hour to let the whole community know that our Hell Day was beginning. Some- how we got the idea that our celebra- tion wasn't much appreciated when the protests began rolling in about 2 a. m. That was about the extent of our Hell Day, too, for clean-up day dawned dark and gloomy, and much to our disgust we celebrated by going to classes. The winter, led by Dutchie, Liz, and Huff, our mermaids won the swimming contest for the second straight year and we've never stopped bragging. We have to. lt's the only sport we could ever win. Our talents seem to run in other directions as we proved with our musical chapel program. Compliments weren't the only results of our hours of

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GRACE CHAMPE WILLIAM BUTTEREIELD MIRIAM CLOUSER DENVER CLOUSER pledges to write often. Our best wishes went especially to Clucky, Vonnie, and Bobbie who left us for good to enter married bliss. In September we flocked back flaunt- ing our carefully acquired tans. It was different this time. There were old friends to greet, new rooms to decorate, and, strangest of all, new freshmen. At first we felt a little hurt as we saw our special place taken over by others, but then it dawned on us that we were sophomores. Now we could watch other unfortunates scrub the sidewalks with toothbrushes and stumble through the Alma Mater. We felt a kind of trium- phant pleasure as we saw the faces of those cute freshman girls scrubbed, shining, and innocent of makeup, with WSW-Qt sl' 3, W0 Q UP' Page twentv-fi

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practice, for our stage crew soon dis- covered thot ivy twined in the picket fence was poison as well as pretty. Spring brought its usual flurry of ac- tivity. The gals all looked forward to May Day with great anticipation, for this was the year we were to do the May pole dance. Rehearsals progressed beautifully, and the last one, accord- ing to Bud, was the only perfect dress rehearsal in the history of Earlham May Days. The great day downed, and we tripped gaily out to the center of the Heart filled with sophornoric confi- dence. What happened next still makes us blush when we think back. Such con- fusion was never seen before. And were our faces redl I-Iow could we do that in front of all those people? We managed to save face only by giving a perfect re- ANN FAUL ROBERT WIXOM ANNE WILLIAMS RALPH WILLIAMS LUCILLE ROBINSON BEISNER PAUL BEISNER Qs. .wifi Rf SNOW Page twenty seve 1