Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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BLIGHT OF ORIENTATION; FEAR OF MATRICULATION; A NEW EXPERIENCE September’s clean slate ... orientation—the actual beginning . . . freshman sighs. . . “So this is college . .. paid little attention to our advisors . . . What’s the Zoo? . . . Geer and Townes became home . . . rooms were filled with high school letters and awards . . . name cards gave the new Furmanites a spirit of being subordinate to upperclassmen . . . nights were spent learning new people . . . freezing in the mountains (for the girls) .. . hut a nap during those eternal orientation speeches took care of that . . . the President’s Reception was the big get-together for freshmen (we all went, of course) . . . getting more confused by rules . . . Why do I have to sign out?” . . . Mother John watched over Geer ... Mrs. Lee kept the girls straight with their weekends, etc. . . . all junk collected for four years was dumped into our rooms that were to he our home for an eternity of nine months . . . tours of the campus . . . finding off-limits . . . trying desperately to remember what we should about Furman rules . . . then, the struggle to cram into our jumbled brains the words of several songs . . . “Could I take nine harrowing months of this?” . . . the handbook was our guide . . . we were given a paper alxmt thirty feet long listing classes and times . . . our heads buzzed ... eyes popped ... “What to do with this?” . . . “We pick our classes from this thing?” . . . what next! . . . enough to make some cry . . . would it ever end? ... it finally did . . . hut. then, we were to have our first glimpse of registration . . . Oh. well, now we would he a part of Furman! Year . . . A KIHST LOOK X Y=6? WOMEN S FRESHMAN ADVISORY HOARD. First Row. Lcfl to Right: JANE TERRY, BETTY BRYAN. JOYCE K L Y N N. MAI.BA GARDNER. NELL IIARDINC. Second Row. BETTY WOOLBRICHT. BARBARA SMITH. MARGARET RIDDLE. SARA TIMMERMAN. JOYCE BURRIS, FRANCES SHELL. Third Rou. JANE WILLIAMS. FOLLY WOOD. ANN HURST, BARBARA BAI.T7.EGAR. ELNEDA PADGETT. JEAN THOMPSON.

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PLACE FOR STUDY AND BETWEEN CLASS GET-TOCETHEKS; THE BLOCK MEETING PLACE. FALL SUMMER OVER . . . BACK TO BOOKS Before we knew it summer was over ... it was time to l egin again our search for book-learning... back to friendly Furman . . . students were gathering in groups to reminisce about the past year, discuss those summer parties, and plan for a last (ling before we really started studying . . . new Furman-ites broke into our cliques . . . familiar faces from home entered as green-horns . . . moving in . . . cleaning up—in a fashion . . . almost ready to settle down . . . thoughts of fraternity parties . . . meeting new freshman girls. GATEWAY TO HOME UNIVERSE

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THE END AT LAST! HARROWING REGISTRATION, CONFUSION, CRIP COURSES?... NO SATURDAY CLASSES! A line resembling that of a gigantic army in (luction formed in the Administration Building and corridors of W. C. to fill out forms and blanks -and cross the treasurers palms with green stuff . . . next stop—West flail . . . line waiting . . . meanwhile, girls are wandering all over the Zoo scheduling their classes .. . “What subjects shall I take?” . . . desperate searches for crips, easy professors, no Saturday classes... crumped hinds resulting from filling in countless matriculation cards . . . utter chaos . . . lines form at the rear! . . . another mistake, change again . . . we stand Registration Hopeless Search CHILLS IN STORE INEVITABLE WAIT