Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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These things we learned to value: STUDYeBecause of the stability we found in the routine of classes. PLAYeBecause we forgot ourselves in the fun of physical exercise. DATES with our DrafteeSeBecause they were so few, and because so many of us waited for lhem together.

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From the wild night that was election eve, 1940, when bent to our radios we heard the voices of the forty-eight states declaring the peopleas choice . . . all through the next hectic months when we watched the roll-eall of Draftees, and one by one said goodbye to the men of our choice . . . days when no news was the only good news from the Associated Press . . . this year Goucher took stock of itself. Our needs were information and activityethc college met our needs with speakers as famous as the Archduke Otto of Austria, and Doctor Cullis, the English physiologist. There was the Red Cross course . and the knitting went on with the intensity of our desire to do what we could. That was the year we read new meaning into our daily grind.

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WELL, if they had time to think about it at all, they werenit quite sure themselves. In a room that seemed devoid of any aesthetic possibilities, the first new arrivals forlornly unpacked the pictures and treasured knick-knaeks from home. Lying on their hard, thin mattresses, that were otherwise occupied with half the contents of a suitcase, the frosh looked at four blank cream-colored walls and wondered what in all the smoky old city of Balti- more could make their rooms livable for one year. One year, that was all! Up and down the halls radios hummed the songs that they had danced to in the summer. Summer-so near and yet so far. The scene changed for the better when roommates arrived in a welter of suitcases, hatboxes and tennis racquets. Those who were to face the new experi- ences of college together looked speculatively at one another. Two roommates were pleased to meet. Two heads took up the problem of room decora- tion with better results. Afternoons that were not taken up with placement tests, the freshmen spent wandering in and out of the downtown shops, pricing chairs and bookcases, rummaging through piles of pillows and bedspreads, wrangling good- naturedly with each other over which curtains would look best, quarreling, compromising and col- laborating 0n the most likely interior decorations. Back in the rooms new pictures and travel agency posters went up. Favorite banners were tacked 10 Where, nh Where are the verdant HM, Ma? above beds and favorite home-town boys filled the f rames on desks and bureau tops. The rooms looked surprisingly good in their new garb. The Fresh- But down the halls a radio . the summefs favorite tune. All of Goucher College puts forth its best effort to orient its newest members. The Junior advisers, men were settled. played on and on . . Whose special business it was to bring up their charges in the true Coucher manner, had as their The ofhcials of the Stu- dents, Organization worked to impress upon the Freshman class the responsibilities that go with a democratic student government. Jeanne Utfelman chairman Joan Richter.