Elizabethtown College - Conestogan / Etonian Yearbook (Elizabethtown, PA)

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Dean Vera R. Hack man or s uletj f Deuoted REACHING FAR BENEATH the earth many roots support the giant oak towering into the heavens. Unseen and unknown, these roots arc the very lifeblood of the tree. Walking across a college campus one seldom stops to think about how Nature pro- sides the surrounding foliage. Fewer times still are those persons remembered who labor industriously, often quietlv or behind the scecns, to keep the college abreast with the changing times. Almost seventeen years ago Miss Vera R. Hackman began her duties at Elizabethtown College. Serving since that time as a teacher of English, historv, and journalism. Sock and Buskin ad- isor. ad ' isor to both the ETOWNIAN and CONESTOGAN, Director of Student Acti ' ities, and Dean of Women, she has shown an undixided interest in each student seeking her help. Watching long dresses and high stockings give way to short skirts and bobbv socks. Miss Hackman has pioneered in many areas of college life. She initiated a journalism course on the campus and made the College newspaper, the ETOWNIAN. conform to modern newspaper standards. In 1956, under her guidance, the CONESTOGAN staff produced Elizabethown ' s first AU-American yearbook. Two years ago social activities were enhanced with the holding of super ' ised dances on campus for the first time. Last year Junior and Senior women gained the prixilege of living in honors houses. Reccnth l lizabethtown College was appro cd for membership in the American Association of Universit - Women, Miss Hackman played a significant role in all of these endea ' ors. Throughout the years the influence of this dvnamic personality has been felt in countless other situations, from students ' personal problems to administrative difficulties. With deep respect and in appreciation for a uc cr ending dedi- cation to a never ending task, we dedicate the u)6i CONES- ' I ' OGAN to Miss Vera R. Hackman, the i ean ot Women of Elizabethtown College.

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C ditor 6 foreword C NATURE IS A VOLUME of which God is the author. Look- ing at this work of God, one can see all the glory of creation un- folding before him in four eternal chapters. Year after year through summer, winter, spring, and fall the process occurs and reoccurs. A soft breeze blows. The leaves of a tree swish their silvery skirts while swaying to the wind ' s tune. The heat of summer be- comes the cool crispness of fall. Slowly the silvery dresses are ex- changed for those of gold, brown, red, or yellow. One day a leaf quietly detaches itself and in a faint breeze flutters silently to the ground. Almost with an air of relief, without a struggle, others follow faster and faster. Soon the ground is covered. One night a wind, a little harder than usual, and carrying perhaps the drops of a cold rain, comes. The show is over. Naked and bare the tree stands stark against the sky. As diverse in kind and character as the leaves of Nature ' s trees, is man, God ' s greatest creation. Coming into the world tender and unprotected as the bud on the branch, flowering into youth, hover- ing in maturity, and withering in old age, he attempts with the fury of the storm and the intenseness of the summer heat to fulfill each innate desire. In the process of learning to channel his desires and to prepare for the storm of life, the boy goes to kindergarten, the youth to high school, and the young man to college. The older and more mature attempt to aid him in the conquest of the unknown, not realizing that part of the secret lies in the patience, wisdom, order, balance, quietness, simplicity, and interrelatedness of Nature, the aged pedagogue. But man, despite all his earthly knowledge, falls at the touch of death like a withering leaf or a lifeless branch. Realizing that the college education is a dominant factor in the life of modern man, even though in physical form he is a transitory character in the volume of God, this book reviews a year of the adventures and experiences of the students of Elizabethtown College. tent A omen Faculty 8 Activities 112 Student Body .... 32 Sports 160 Advertisements . . 176

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en ice nrouak the Uje euvS Vera R. Hackman A.B., A.M. Dean of Women