Hampden Sydney College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hampden Sydney, VA)

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HAMPlJliN-SYDNEY KAl,lCllX7SC1Ul'l1 WMI I THERE ANYWHERE ELSE? Although you always knew that you were going to be a Hampden-Sydney gentleman C for the natural rights of prepdom are naturally knownj you also knew that someday you would officially have to join the Community by going through time-honored Rites of Passage. The Rites of Passage will have begun sometime even before your matriculation. Mummy and Daddy would often rhapsodize on the Rites between hors d'oeuvres and the first course. And Muffy-that older sister of yours-could not help but tell you fnot in a direct revelation over brunch but in an overheard telephone conversationb about her initiation into the Hampden- You do not wake up over- night and find yourself a Hampden-Sydney gentleman. If you were a true Prep, you were born with an alligator birthmark on your chest and a filled-out application to Hampden-Sydney in your mouth. fThat's why you gag on spoons to this very day.l Others, not so lucky, are forced to spend an aimless and frustrated childhood, grasping subconsciously that some- where something like Hampden-Sydney must exist, but unsure how to reach it. Release comes when a benevo- lent neighbor, a gung-ho alumnus, signs you up at age six, steering you away from an otherwise certain perdition in the guise of V PI. So what about those, say in Albuquerque or Nome, who are born without even an ink- ling of Hampden-Sydney? On them, fortunate few, the Col- lege has seen fit to have mercy Every spring, as thirty thou- sand L. L. Bean catalogues arrive at the College, thirty thousand announcements, called the Search Piece, go out to let the uninformed know that Hampden-Sydney exists and Cif they fulfill certain con- ditions, among them blond- ness, all-cottonness, and coolj is willing to give them a second chance on life. The Search Piece, Ham pden-Sydney 's nzessage of nzerqx ,, 1 t