Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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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

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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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Juniors. Here the first year students looked about for a leader. After a thorough-going review of the candidates, respective merits, they chose for their temporary chairman, Mary Adele Sippel who7 in the final elections, took over the Presidency of the Class of Forty-four. Eleanor Scott, later Fresh- man member of Judicial Board, was temporary Seeretary-Treasurer. V ice-President 0f the Class was J ane Tyrie; Dorothy Alexander was Secretary; Miriam Michnik, Treasurer; Carol Jacobs, Re- corder of Points; the Sergeants-at-arms were Betsy Woodall and Mary Holteen. Students of nineteen forty-four traversed the daily round of classes in saddle shoes and knee- soeks, pleated plaid skirts, sweaters and pearls, quite acclimated to the Baltimore environment, quite accustomed to the college uniform. If they thought of four years as an infinitely long time, it only deepened the feeling that Goueher belonged to them. In the life of the Coucher Girl CALM there was always enough time to talkieabout movies and Freshman Class OHicers. M. Miehnik, D. Alexander, M. Sipple. president; Dr. Beatty, adviser; M. Tlnheen, B. Woodall, J. Tyrie tnut pictnreCU. dances and Princeton weekends, about phone-calls and special delivery airmail envelopes. So it was in the beginning, in the end, and evermore shall be, for all freshmen classes. Stable, though the faces vary, stands collegiate Coucher. 15