Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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The city sunrise sabotaged hy brick walls MARY FISHER HALL . . . the Towson dorm . . . the very thought had a magical effect upon all Who heard it. All eyes turned toward Towson to View this spectacle for which we had waited, planned and hoped so long. First term was marked by a deluge of visitors, accompanied by appropriate ohts and ah's, as they feasted their eyes on Goucherhs new pride and joy. The beautiful building, the modern furnishings, the breath-taking drawing room, the soft carpetings, spacious dining room and cozy date parlors . . . the students rooms, commons rooms, library, rec room, kitchenettes planned to perfection. On the other hand, the Gimle girls claim everything is some advantages and rightly, too. Even if they went confronted with a beautiful View when they awake and peer out of the window in the morning, they can make their classes in five minutes, Without experiencing that long street car ride. Gimle girls are also closer to in-town life . . . department stores, Pratt library, and the Lyric. They take pride in living in the last city dorm, and in carrying on the original Goucher tradition. l5

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A new day, a new durm . . . an unfurqeltahla scene

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Enlleqe in the country S the station wagon rounded the last curve in the long drive to Mary Fisher Hall and the beige sandstone building hove into sight, both the old girls and the new were conscious that a new phase of life awaited them. The freshmen because they were entering a college community for the first timeathe old girls because they were moving from the city to a country campus. When the exclamations over the attractive interior finally subsided, the girls were in- structed to line up outside a small office, that was later to be a popular place for obtainingr Station waqnn nut preferred weekend permissions and inquiring about phone messages that might have come while they were out. There each girl registered in her turn with Miss Arnold, the Assistant Student Counselor, and received the key to her room, a plan of the building and a list of instructions. 16 i Heqistraliun-a new lease fur a new life Finally after locating their respective rooms on the plans the girls started offesome to East wing and others to North, South and West. The doors were scarcely unlocked before they began to Visualize a rearrange- ment of furniture, plants on the bookcases and pictures on the wallafor this was Home for the rest of the year.