Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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DONN'YBROOK FAIR ELLA LONN, A.B., A.M., PH.D .............. Professor of History KATHRYN MCHALE, B.S., A.M., PH.D .......... Professor of Education A. LAURA HINTZE, A.B., A,M., PH.D., Assistant Professor of Physiology and Hygiene ANNA MATHIESEN, A.B., A.M., PH.D ...... Assistant Professor of Psychology E361

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DONN'YBROOK FAIR The Class of Nineteen Thirty-four PEREGRINATIONS of aSenior lie perilously neat the danger line. Even a four years background of stem discipline has difficulty in overpowering a heritage of sentiv mentalism reinforced by four years of more than negation. Out modern externality may be invulnerable, but our reflexes still functione-and our memories are even more alert. This business of being a Senior is really very strangee-and not Senior-like at all We still have vestiges of those litimid looks and such with which we started so many years ago. However, we gathered in 1931, decidedly more courage for the forthcoming ordeal when we initiated as associate u19345 Dr. and Mrs. Robertson. And, after all, why should we be timid with two members of a Presidents family among us, and with red as our class color? After we had won the 1930,1931 hockey, swimming, and volleyball championships and followed in 1931,1932 with the re- tention of the latter two, we felt equal to meeting and chatting with Amelia Earhart at Mrs. Robertsonls tea; and even discussing politics, peace and such with the charmv ing Veverkas of Czechoslovakia-on that memorable trip to the Embassy in Wash ington. We could forget for a while that we were only Sophomores. Like Chicago with its superlatives, we have always considered ourselves a mark in the epoch-ibeing only frank, of course, never boastful D. We have witnessed many amazing revolutions: automobiles allowed to Seniors; the abolition of compulsory classes before and after vacation, the institution of Tone; the establishment of a gaily bedecked infirmary with Harperls Bazaar at one's elbow; we have even seen the window sills of Gimle and Foster House painted white, and have endured the me numerable snows and sleets of a 1934 February in Baltimore. In our first SingSong contest we took second place, but in this, our Enal year, we won an indisputable fust iupheld by the Deanis positive assurance of the lack of challengeD When oneis class history has been perused and recorded for three previous years, when one reaches the last few important weeks, one feels a necessity for braggingeit is such excellent defense against goodbyes, and makes such a beautiful sham in trying to cover up a few furtive tears. And when one is becoming an Alum with Hof 1934i, appended to her name, what more tBaSOII-?