Fairmont State University - Mound Yearbook (Fairmont, WV)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS I N T R O D U C T I O N S E P T E M B E R O C T O B E R N O V E M B E R D E C. a n d J A N. Presentation Table of Contents Dedication F. S. T. C. Campus Faculty Student Council Freshman Class The Month In Review Football Sophomore Class The Month in Review Masquers Club The Month In Review Basketball The Month In Review Fraternities and Clubs 1938-1939 Social Calendar Honorary Organizations The Month In Review M Tennis A R Baseball c H The Month In Review A The lunior Prom P J R The lunior Class L The Month In Review M Student Body Officers A ' Outstanding Seniors Mound Staff Columns Staff J The Senior Class N My Diary Five

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PRESENTATION A year in Fairmont College is over. Silently it has disappeared in the endless corridors of time. Time that unobtrusively ran its course through September . . . De- cember . . . March . . . June. Summer ended; fall descended. The brittle spearing air became metallic, hard and spar- kling as jewels. Winter. The buildings clothed in white. Again the scene changes: rain; a birds nest above an en- trance way; the wind ' s touch, a caress. Dusk ... the set- ting of the sun . . . June. A year in Fairmont college is over, gone. When, in the fall, work was begun on this yearbook the Mound Staff cast about in their minds for a new, original manner in which to present the year of one thousand nine hundred thirty-nine. The solution to the problem was discovered in the element of time, its flight. It was decided that the year of ' 39 would be presented to you just as it happened in its chronological passage. It is the earnest desire of the staff that each student, leafing through these pages, will be able to identify his own activities successively, month by month, as they fit into the pattern of the entire year. Place yourself, if you will, in the position of a newcomer to the college. Every- thing is new, strange. Successively he becomes acquainted with the campus, the faculty, the student government. On Dad ' s Day he be- comes fully conscious of the Sophomore class. During Hell Week , the fraternities. The 1939 Mound, then, is a chronological record of a full year at Fairmont State College, as it might appear through the eyes of a Freshman who has just passed through it.

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Kids: a Boy and a Girl, symbols of the group, fresh from high school, who, in the fall, became a part of the student body. Yesterday they doffed their caps and gowns; today they are, again, beginners. Pausing on the steps for a moment, their eyes traveling the length of the great columns, they envision, behind the huge facade, a new life, new hope, and the fulfill- ment of a great many of their ambitions. What great expectations they have for what is to come! And Six