Hood College - Touchstone Yearbook (Frederick, MD)

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Jan Pendleton, chairman of Keg Day, was “foiled again' —twice! But what can you do with a keg full of cider? Keg Day A.A. Keg Day? | don't remember that! When was it? A keg full of cider and no one to drink it?!?! That's right. First the annual fall interdorm sports- day was cancelled because of the small number of stu- dents remaining on campus that weekend. The second weekend it rained and half of the activities couldn't be played. So, what can one do with a keg full of cider? (You could just keep it around for awhile and see if any- thing comes of it!) However, the A.A. Board decided that rather than let a good thing go to waste, well... bottoms up! A.A. Board toasts next year's Keg Day. 25

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A barrel of apples, with grapes overflowing—a Halloween treat for every student. Halloween Halloween at Hood is marked in a special way. A prize for the most original table decoration, a special Halloween dinner (complete with witches’ brew), and dorm parties help to make October 31! a holiday. Ghosts and gremlins roam the campus, and there's an air of suspense in the fresh chill of an early winter night as Big Sisters steal off into the darkness to deliver that special treat to those special Little Sisters. A grimace and a grin match wits over Coblentz Coffee Caldron as Mary Eberline and Kathy Hochmuth celebrate Halloween. Halloween party at Meyran and Sarah Jane Snyder meows wistfully at a caramel apple. A broad-smiling Jack o' Lantern is not half as pretty as the two behind. 24

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26 Little Christmas Christmas was meant for children, students like you and Mews 2 Little Christmas, so much a part of the Hood College Tradition, began two weeks before vacation arrived. The presence of little angels became apparent with the sounds of feet tiptoeing down the hall and food and trinkets found outside of doors. Dorm teas encouraged members of the faculty and administration to share the Christmas spirit with students. The Midshipmen arrived en masse and choruses of the Messiah became audible around the campus. After the stirring concert, students and dates enjoyed the semi-formal Christmas dance. The Christmas vesper service was high- lighted by Miss Benchoff's reading of greetings from var- ious Hood Clubs across the nation and by the Choir's per- formance of Carl Orff's Christmas Story. Little angeling, dorm and room decorating, and carol- ing around Frederick passed all too ‘quickly. Soon it was time for Christmas dinner, a veritable feast with unique and artistic table decorations. The table girls traditionally piped in the ''figgy pudding. Mad packing, gift exchanging, and little angel revealing added more excitement to the stir, until Christmas Communion quietly and solemnly reminded us of the fundamental meaning of Christmas. It's not really Christmas until we carol at Dr. Ranck's. at so re It's amazing what you can do with some ribbon and sequins,’ is Debbie Dick's comment as she places her original ornament on Meyran's Christmas tree. The Day Students hostess a party for the entire school. But Meredith, that's the tenth time we've sung ‘Jingle Bells.’ ’