Framingham State University - Dial Yearbook (Framingham, MA)

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Sue and Priss returned to Framingham the following September, greeted their friends of the previous year, and with a little more dignity and self-assurance began their sophomore year. They cheered their classmates and laughed at the faculty at the Student Coop Field Day in mid-October. Their first A'Kempis formal in December left them a bit breathless, later they applauded madly at Stunt Night, when their class presented Ferdinand the Bull in a gay Spanish fiesta. Preparations for May Day crowded swiftly on the heels of Stunt Night, but the early and efficient planning by the class with faculty advisor, Miss Carter, made the tremendous amount of worlc involved an exciting, instead of hectic affair. Sue toolc the part of Thoreau, and Priss was Mrs. Emerson in a play depicting May Day in Concord in the 187O's. Their class was honored to have as a guest during the pageant, Mrs. Eliza Williams Porter, the oldest living graduate of the school. After the excitement of May Day, life at school seemed monotonous. Final exams brought their own par- ticular stimulus, however, and closed the second year of life at Framingham. Another September, and Sue and Priss were once again caught up in the familiar whirl of activities on the hill. Their class began the now-accepted custom of Junior Week-end, a time for fun and comradeship, ending with a brealcfast after church on Sunday morning. Armed with lesson plans and illustrative material, and with no little trepidation in their hearts, the two went forth presently to teach in practice classes: Sue to the Training School for eight weelcs, and Priss at various schools in nearby towns for a full semester. Following their exams in January, when both girls attempted to cram four months' studying into four nights' time, Priss entered Croclcer for house practice. Stunt Night in 1941 was memorable, for the junior class won the coveted award with a cabaret slcit, including the old Turlcey Trot and the newest Rhumba. ln June there was the Prom with Peirce Hall dining room transformed into an old-fashioned garden. Then that year, too, was gone. 9, 5 4, When September, 1941 came, Sue and Priss were seniors. It was now their turn to malce things a little easier and a little happier for the bewildered freshmen, except during initiation Weelc when they assumed the traditional lordly and condescending air toward the lowly creatures. Freshmen Court had never seemed so amusing as it did during the trial of senior sister Mr. Sullivan, fwho had entered Framingham the same We become Teachers of Tots, Domestic Scientists, Kitchen Mechanics.

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HISTORY Framingham State Teachers College was an exciting and unfamiliar place to Susan Smith and Priscilla Logan that September day in 1938, as they looked eagerly around at the campus, its summer calm broken: a chaotic scene of departing parents, strangers milling about and upperclassmen calling greetings to one another across the green oval in front of Dwight Hall, where the two girls had met a few minutes before. The first maze of activities that marked Registration, and the bewildering events of the days that followed brought Priscilla and Susan more closely together in a friendship that grew with their years at college. Sue enrolled as an Elementary, commuting student, and Priss became an H. A. with a room in Peirce Hall. The senior-freshman sing in Horace Mann living room that first Saturday evening, the now historic hurricane that swept across the campus late the following Wednesday, leaving buildings, trees, and even students somewhat shattered, the odd socks, pigtails, shower towels worn toga fashion, and huge name-placards of Initiation Week, the Senior Tea for the freshmen in the midst of that hectic week when senior sisters became again for a brief time those friendly, sympathetic oracles who had aided the two girls during Registration, the club drives, new acquaintances, and classes-all these jumbled together formed the two girls' remembrances of their first autumn at the college. They thrilled to the music of the Hampton Singers and went-gaily, if a bit un- certainly-to Harvard-Yale Week-end fthe Mock-Man Dance, the hockey game, basketball, and the alumnae matchj. By Christmas, with can everwidening circle of friends among their classmates, the upperclassmen, and the faculty, Priss and Sue felt, although almost unaware of the emotion, that they belonged at Framingham. After Mid-Years, which proved to the two that all play and no work did indeed make Jill a dull girl, they drew a long breath and plunged into their second semester's work with the firm resolve-all too soon broken-really to do some studying every night. Because the Assembly Hall was closed for repairs after the hurricane, a Fine Arts Costume Ball, held off campus, replaced the annual Fine Arts Play. Stunt Night also had to be postponed until the following year. Spring brought to Priss and Sue the unforgettable memory of the Sophomore May Day chapel, when, against the background of the spruces of Chalmers Theater and the soft pastels of daintily gowned attendants, classmates, and former May Queens, the lovely sophomore May Queen was crowned with a wreath of flowers, and seated on a red and gold throne. Pops, finals, a goodbye-and the freshman year at college was finished. We play and sing,-at Harvard-Yale,-at Senior Class Night.

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year as Sue and Prissj for ignoring his freshman sister, Dr. Haertl, fwho entered that falll. The sporting manner in which both sisters accepted the penalties of the jury won not only the chuckles but the admiration of all the students. Now that Sue and Priss were seniors, they were beginning to realize how com- pletely Framingham had become a part of them. How difficult to believe that for the last time as undergraduates they were attending field day, the dances, the Fine Arts Club play, this year combined with the Home Ec Club's Pan-American Bazaar in a gala evening program, and the Monday assemblies, at which many fascinating speakers brought to the girls information and forecasts of world-wide trends and events. December 'I and the bombing of Pearl Harbor suddenly plunged the girls into events which, before, they had merely discussed like any other academic problem. The Christmas vacation saw them saying goodbye to brothers and friends who had been called to their country's defense. On their return to college, the girls did their part by taking defense courses to prepare them for work in canteens, motor corps units, and air warden stations. Miss Carter, now Lieutenant Carter, was the organizer and director of the defense course at school. Priss joined Miss Robbins' First Aid Class and later helped in teaching this first aid knowledge to the others in the regular defense course. Sue was appointed air raid warden in her home district. ln their regular classes both girls studied harder and with a more definite purpose. Sue went out again for eight more weeks of teaching and Priss went to Boston on Wednes- days for the dispensary course. The few remaining months of college life sped by, with their poignant memories of the Senior Prom, held in April, of tree planting, a last May Day chapel, the daisy chain in the dusk in front of Horace Mann, Baccalaureate Sunday, and finally graduation. Although loath to leave their Alma Mater and the friends they had made there, and facing a much different world from that which they had planned on four years before, Sue and Priss felt ready and anxious to carry out the plans only partially formulated when as freshmen that had first chosen Framingham to be their college. As they walked slowly around the green oval in front of Dwight Hall, they felt a seriousness and maturity that they had not experienced that first September day when they had met there. But they were not really leaving, for wherever they went, they would always carry a part of Framingham with them. Alice Hughes Rose Cooney We fancy ourselves as cosmopolitan shoppers,-accomplished thespians.