Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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E lunqinquu . . . e prupinqun . . . On the last day for the registration of returning upperclassmen and the last day for the completion of the Freshmank first year schedule, that is, on Friday, the twenty-seventh of September, came Con- vocation, the oHicial opening of the school year. Everybody gathered in Katy Hooper auditorium, while the 01d and new students looked with like awe upon the solemn entrance of the faculty. In their academic robes, the masters of Couchefs classrooms filed slowly two and two down the mid- dle aisle and seated themselves before us on the platform. President Robertson added his personal welcome to the many student voices that had greeted the Freshmen,s arrival, and, in the name of the Faculty, the Administration and the Board of Trustees, declared Coucher College in session. We rose to sing our Latin Alma Mater while the Fresh- men marveled that they too might be able to chant iiE L0nginqu0,, with closed books after two or three years. Monday morning the work of college began in earnest. Reading asignments fell heavily and fast upon the Freshman class. They rushed on the book- store, they searched through bulletin ads for second-hand grammars 0f the French and English Languages. They discovered 6iW'irelessf, as the in- fallible contact system between buyers and sellers of the required texts. And very soon they were settled in the library reference rooms or wandering

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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.

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through the stacks in search of needed matter for the first weeks assignment. But it wasnit until they joined the upperclassmen in the periodical room and decided that work could wait while they read the New Yorker, that the Class of f orty-four became fully adapted to the Coucher Way of life and study. The Freshmen were formally received . . . 14 The Junior Class fulfilled the last of its oHicial sisterly duties when, in the seeerid week after the beginning of Classes, each Junior adviser escorted her Freshman down a receiving line in the Coucher Hall Rotunda. Deeked out in their newest f ormals, the youngest Goucherites made their how before the leaders of the Students3 Organization, President and Mrs. Robertson, Dean Stimson, Miss Connor and the honorary members of the established classes. Sophomores elbowed their way through the crowd with plates of ice cream and cake. The Juniors insisted that their sisters simply must meet Dr. So-and-So. t4He7s the funniest mania, The Freshmen timidly suggested that it would be nice to shake hands with the doctors they saw in class. Rather than take off the finery so early in the eve- ning, most of the Juniors took their Freshmen off to the Peabody Bookshop or the Campus Inn, be- fore the Reception Night fun finally ended. The initial step in organizing the Freshman Class was made at the general Freshman meeting called by Gwynneth Gminder, President of the