Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Student Organization. First Row: Gwynnelh Gminder, Salb C0811. Pully Mengers, Miriam Olsen. Jeanne Uffelman, Betty Oberdorfer. Second Row: Eva Moore. Virginia Colfelt, Katherine Goodwin, Mary Rust, Julia Chadwick, Eleanor Scott, Joan Richter, Phyllis Kravitch, Dorothea Kopsch. Third Row: Eleanor Rath, Ruth Miller, Louise Merfeld, Geraldine Geller, Shelley Dalrymple. Fur unml government at Gunther . . . Tone. Frant: Selma Brach, Eleanor Connor, Virginia Knight, Helen Zimmerman. Virginia Colfelt, Eva Moore, Louise Merfeld. Back: Lois Jenney, Dorothea Kopsch, Ruth Miller, Jeanne Uffelman.

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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.

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Spirit parties entertained and educated . . . was President of Students9 Organization; Betty Oberdorfer, Chairman of Judicial Board; Carol Worthington, College Spirit Chairman. Treasurer, Miriam Olsen; Recording Secretary of Executive Board, Polly Mengers; Corresponding Secretary, Gwynneth Gminder; Secretary of Judicial Board7 Mary Rust; Junior Member, Sally Coan; Sopho- more Memher, Margaret Gardiner. Tone sought to instill each Freshman conscience with the importance of ttthe correct thingtag espe- There were some breathing spells J2 . while Richter and Worthington directed cially the need for careful dress, lest our city neighbors shake a disapproving finger at a Coucher girl wandering off campus with socks and without hat. Offlcial upholders of the college 4tTone, were Eleanor Connor7 chairman of the censorial com- mittee; Selma Brack, Virginia Colfelt, Lois Jenney, Virginia Knight, Dorothea Kopsch, Louise Mer- feld, Ruth Miller, Eva Moore, Jeanne Uffelman and Helen Zimmerman. The hrst duty of a Junior Sister is to see that her charges attend the parties that are given each night of Freshman Week. At seven oaclock the youngest ones were carried Off to Bennett $360,, Hall for a dose of college spirit. There, among the Juniors, the City Girls and whatever upper classmen had come early on the scene, the new students were made to feel a part of the college. There was cut- dancing to tunes of a nickelodeon barely audible above the shouts of greetingethe loud tghellosh 0f long-lost f riends. Carol Worthington, College Spirit Chairman, welcomed the fresh gaily each evening and acted as mistress of the unceremonious skits. The main college organizations vied with each other to attract the most new members from the Freshman Class. One night there was outside en- tertainment. A Hill-Billy Band led a square dance while those who couldnvt find space on the Hoor clapped time till the next number. The party over, there was a grand rush on Roberts,9 Shellefs, Wolf7s and the Arundel for a quick coke and smoke before the ten dclock curfew.