Eastman School of Music - Score Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Senior Class History 1940 seemed such a remote date when we came here in ' 36 as freshmen Shorn of high school senior grandeur, awed beyond descrip¬ tion by professors, other students (even the sophomores), and especially by the new three- hour exams, we scooted shyly through the halls from class room to practice annex, speak¬ ing only when spoken to, and brooding at other times on our purpose in life. With our sophomore year we attained a remarkable self-confidence knowing that we could easily intimidate a new freshman class, and that we probably looked as impressive to them as the foregoing class had seemed to us. There was nothing that we could not give an opinion on, and nothing that we did not. But the greatest single event in our sophomore year was the building of the new library and the subsequent opening of the lounge. Life came to have a new meaning, and we came to have a new set of Eastman idiom. We no longer majored in organ, or fiddle, or composition, we could now play bridge. Culbertson and Lenz joined Bach, Beethoven, and other immortals. A good finesse was as good as a trill. By our junior year we had attained a certain amount of true poise to replace our sopho¬ more effrontery, and regretful of our own performance in freshman hazing, we defended the newest freshmen to the best of our ability. We organized our Big Sister-Little Sister move¬ ment and climaxed it with a picnic, scheduled for Cobb ' s Hill, but held eventually in the dormitory recreation room, because of the weather. Bridge had also lost its importance, and we resigned it gracefully to the younger classes. When we reached our majority as seniors, we celebrated by giving a Hay Ride party to Sea Breeze, but since then our social activities have been restrained. As a class we are con¬ centrating on getting through as creditably as possible. Now that we are seniors 1940 seems to have come all too soon. It seems strange to think that this place will get along just as well next year without our guidance. In our disbelief as many as possible of us are coming back next year, ostensibly to get our master ' s degree, but in reality because we just can ' t leave this place. OLIVE FOSBURG, Sec ' y, Class of ' 40 [ 53 ]

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Purky, Harrison, Baxter, Mear Junior Class Officers I President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer [ 55 ] EARNEST HARRISON - MERRYLIN BAXTER - MARY HELENA PURKY - SIDNEY MEAR -