Earlham College - Sargasso Yearbook (Richmond, IN)

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3 y t F'l -I' -qv 3' D N, . l l R Q s,lf peat performance at the Strawberry Festival that night. Then there was the sophomore-senior banquet, our major undertaking of the year. Our wishing well theme must have brought us luck, for everyone had a wonderful time, Remember Mr. Pray in his tux, and Bob Thompson's drip- py impromptu? In return tor our hospitality the sen- iors gave us a run for our money the night of the senior picnic. What a night? We let them leave right under our noses and then walked miles back campus looking for them, climbing ten- ces and crossing streams without one tiny star in the sky to shed a little light on the subject. Girls who wouldn't go within a mile of a cow during the day found themselves stumbling over them WILMA VLASKAMP DOROTHY CALDWELL

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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

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time and again. And to what avail? All the time the seniors were across town at Quaker Hill. After a dramatic scene in which we made a valiant attempt to cram through exams the curtain was lowered on Act ll. When it went up again we found that we were juniors. Not much later we went to the fan mail board one morn- ing to find those ominous looking en- velopes which we knew contained an- nouncements of junior orals. With fear and trembling we went to the Foulke Room or faculty parlor to undergo the third degree. All kinds of contradictory rumors spread, and reports agreed only in that it was great to have it over. Now we're grateful that we didn't have to take the written orals initiated this year. With the number of men on campus increasing steadily, WAA took courage and sponsored a girl invite dance that year, and that gave the gals the chance they had been waiting for, and they got busy with bear traps and lassoes to trap PATRICIA HORNBROOK ROBERT SCOTT ALICE JANE STANLEY JOHN BOWMAN ELOISE ALBIN DONALD MORRIS Page twenty nine