Hastings College - Bronco Yearbook (Hastings, NE)

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New Students Above: During the first days of school the gymnasium hums with the activities of registration. Everything from matriculation to the completed registration is carried on here, with time out for a trip to the business office. First days found 'many bewildered freshmen wondering over the many intricacies of registra- tion, for after a lengthy session with a newly- assigned adviser, each student was given a com- plicated two-foot card to fill out properly. Sur- prising indeed were the answers. Many cards revealed the date of the students, birth as 1941. After a day of unpacking and registering, newcomers welcomed the relaxation of the Y umixersv at Bellevue House. Here one could meet new students and old friends as he entered into the evening's fun. Everything from shuffle- board and 'KBingo', to dancing was under joint YM-YW sponsorship. Leff above: Freshmen purchase their traditional green hats from bookstore attendants, Hubert Under- hill, left, and George Nuchtigall, right. ' Left below: Dick Squires, freshman, bends low to have swats administered. Bob Geller, senior, as- sists. Below: The Right Hon. R. Berggren pre- sides, as freshman Mary Jane Brown adjusts Junior Baker's tie in fulfillment of the sentence meted her by the jury of the Kangaroo Court. Miriam Sam- elson, another offender, and Willard Bouricius, jury member, watch. 18

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Of School Right: Suitcases, boxes, and Bob Johnston arrive at Ringlancl Hall, where he will stay. Bob, a sophomore, is from North Platte. Left: First girl to register for the first semester was Willa Reye Tidvall, sophomore from Minden. Left to right are Mr. David Dykstra, Betty Siefer, Miriam Samelson, Miss Grace Gaarcle, Willa Reye Tidvall, Margaret Carpen- ter, Ruth Lanham. Rigbf: john Weddel, left, and Kenneth Bauer, right, ponder over the complicated registration blanks they must fill out.

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Are Initiated Above: Hours of hanclshaking and 'lHow do you do's were followed by the traditional and colorful grand march. Riglafz Ruth Weyer, society president, is intro- duced to the student body along with other campus leaders. Climax of the opening week of school was the traditional formal reception for new students. Here students, both old and new, were introduced or re-introduced to all members of the college faculty, their wives, and husbands. The grand march, with its color and pomp, was one high light of the evening. Many students thus found one of their first opportunities to enter into the traditions of Hastings College. Campus leaders-society presidents, heads of honorary groups, publications editors-were in- troduced to the student body as they came through the gateway of 1941-42. Class presidents for the year were also announced in this same manner. ' With the first class periods and the resulting assignments, there was a sudden rush on the bookstore for books-new and used. Attendants there were kept busy selling the traditional green caps that all freshmen were required to wear un- til further notice. Freshman Week -anticipated by sopho- mores who still remember their freshman days, and dreaded by all freshmen-was held under the jurisdiction of the Student Association. Sen- tences of all kinds were imposed by the jury of the Kangaroo Court upon all who failed to abide by sophomore law. The first day of the Kangaroo Court, His Honor, John Hall Lamb presided, with the aid of his noble jurymen he meted out satisfactory sen- tences to the offenders of the law. On the second day the acts of justice were performed by Judge John R. Berggren. Everything from the enact- ment of the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet to limited swats for male offenders were decreed by the jury. After the crisis of Freshman Week, college life assumed a new meaning for all freshmen. No longer abused, new students were able to enter wholeheartedly into the hustle and bustle of camp- us activities. Granted membership into various organizations, newcomers soon became an integral part of Hastings College.