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

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X v. do you try to convert him to khakis or try to flunk him out so you can get a real roomie next semester? Your Dad opens out the back of the station wagon and there it is-the wall of famil- iar things made unfamiliar by being packed so tightly, rak- ishly together. Subconsciously recognizable ends of things peek out between Chivas Regal boxes full of records and ragg sweaters. Then comes the safari back and forth between the bushes, under the five-foot seven-inch doorway, around the corner through the twilight to your room. You pile everything in the middle or on your bed because your roommate fthe decision gets easier the more you think about ity has taken up the rest of the room with his stuff and claims it's there to stay. Mummy, who had been sit- ting, wringing her gloves, on the bed until it ot too full of X ff! f 31 .. ,,- gy - 1.-g. , :W rf' .. 1,-ti .. - -fp . ., --2 . W1-. 2-f:.'u 1 AWG . '-6 C 49,071 T. -ey :wer 3 ae, ' .V' X' sauna. All she found was a shower, which you get to share with twenty other guys. She is obviously trying hard to be blasee about the living conditions and, undaunted by your assurances that it beats an Army barracks any day, wonders if they will let Aldora come up once a week to clean your room. Saying Goodbye Everything is out of the car. The last hints about catalogue orders have died away. The polyester kid has slunk off. Everyone is suddenly about as conversational as hospital visitors. Well, son, I guess we'll have to run on now. Yes, sir. You will remember to eat ri ht won't ou? S S , Y - boxes, has gone to look for the Yes, ma'am, there's the .. ,nip . Commons. And to write us every week? Yes, ma'am, I have the stamps you gave me. And to mind your manners? Remember about job interviews .... Yes, ma'am, it's all in that little book they gave me. We're going to miss you, son, around the house. Thanks, Dad, I'll miss you too, but there's Parents Week- end in a month. Well, dear, I guess we'll be getting on now. Mom? Yes, dear? Are you going to kiss me goodbye? I would like to. Would you mind doing it up here, where the guys won't see? ll - f- ',,,s-Q -4. r,A ' 'I L in... ii

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THE FIRST DAYS The first day at college. Bit- parents, standing in a line it tersweet, exhilarating, enervat- took almost forty-five minutes ing. Feeling all of a sudden to find, between some over- very grown up and just a little large kid from Dubuque who bush league compared to all talks funny and some stud those RA's with the cool, from West End Richmond assured smile. Glad your Dad who won't talk at all until let you bring the good car he's had his broker check out and, again, just a little uneasy your portfolio. about the way your Mom is You never knew how long fussing over you and isn't four names were until you've quite herself: You,re sure had to print them fifty times. you'll be all right with just the three pairs of pajamas? Moving In Checking In a rite determined some time Literally. You, your pen, and your checkbook. That's what the letter said you needed in order to register. So here you are, fresh from a six-hour the previous summer by the Dean of Students, the man in charge both of your rights and lack of rights, of passage and otherwise. You will hear more of him. You've finally got the key, and figured out what all the letters in VWG-12 stand for, and have found the room Qand your roommate and his aquar- ium and console TVD. Same size guy. You think: two times as many khakis, 1007, cotton shirts. Wow, some luck. Only one problem: he wears double- knit pants. You are faced, in your first hours at school, with one of the biggest de- cisions of your col- legiate career: drive, with a nervous brace of 5 X f K X 3 , R Cf I 10 X f -

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THE OFFICIALT' PREPPY YEARBOOK THE VIRTU ES OF GARN ET C99 GREY The wearing of girnet and grey t gray is N OCDJ is the surest and quickest way to assure group identification within the Hampden-Sydney set. 4 Even St. Christophers School in Richmond, a key source of future Tigers, has borrowed Hampden-Sydney's school colors.7 The official position of garnet and grey dates from 1776, when tutor fy john Blair Smith organized - the students as a regiment to go to the aid of Wash- ington during the ,. cg Revolutionary War. J ', Being fashion- , X conscious even i i then, they chose a x 'Ari 1 TT' X ' . f tc S s- X X XX x XXX XC XXX A X 'X . xl t x X i X N X X xxx xv Q I xxx NIA .S xx ht X VX l is T T it I ay? ' A c X ist li iff I my XX H xxx xx I , fat ,I l I 1 l 1 t l 1 if 1 1 Q 91 ff' if K 41' lk ' color the areas marked l, arnet 'ind the areas marked g , c L 2, grey. Doesn't that look nice? Now borrow your roommate's copy of The Official Preppy Yearbook and color the pic- ture differently. The possibili- ties are endless. fgfgc f wg! Xe T iff lt Q OX I tl 0 .i, mi 4-1X Listed below Cfrom Ashtrays Ashtrays Banners to Zippoj are just some of the wonderful items that carry the garnet and grey motif: Bumperstickers Calendars Baseball Caps Chairs A X Beer Steins 1 elts Blankets Blazer Buttons f P ,V B yi I WU, XX x Yllxxx W natural-fiber uni- . 'y A - form of grey R' ' A. X I g ' 4 1 H mf? flannel trousers P - ' E ! ll and hunting shirts T JDJ- yi, i ' 'f N5 gs X cts dyed with the juice . 5 t ',., -T f -Q5 5 , of the pokeberry ly ' p a-.., , ,3.Q- 1 plant. f T t l 2 -- 2 f wtyrif lf cc I xr X X ll i x ki ,sig y W I i i X. l 1 xx ., ll I f -fl, p lllll I xx - I M X A at V Q, 'lim Url' fl . T f ilk ialf . ff X fi ilii,izi5ii1il'l!lf',i2t 'fo help I .L 2 if 1 f .if A l'lf make sure lx Q Jr V' , li fm. that you .y T Z X ltlplillf . llllli R - l-,ii .xt ll.i understand I i xi I -ttyl the full potential of 17 y M'yiQ-,XXX ll i ,ll lt. this color combination, 'ff fl X ll yll, i lwl we have prepared -1 tw- -2 l i xx il I l a little exercise. You N,j2 Nl W lyllx l ly l ix' will need a garnet 1 lx y All Nl N litlyglg pen and a grey pen. , V W T l it l Q li, l NOW study the fig- 'FS Q- Wil Wil ures carefully and ' if-2, lrumfx ,N it l I2 if . Wx Coasters Cups Decals Envelopes F risbees Glassware Gym shorts Handbags Hats jackets jiggers jump ropes Key chains Letterheads Mugs Needlepoint kits N ightshirts Notebooks Openers Pencil Holders Pennants Pens Playing Cards Prints Quids Rings Rugby Shirts Scarves Shirts Socks Stationery Stickpins Stocking Caps Sweaters Sweatshirts Ties Umbrellas Warmup Suits X-rated Cards Yam Zippg Lighters