Kalamazoo College - Boiling Pot Yearbook (Kalamazoo, MI)

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TROWBRIDGE HOUSE COUNCIL The House Council oT Mary Trowbridge House meeTs once each weelc To promoTe Those acTiviTies which malce dormiTory liTe more congenial and wholesome. To ensure The necessary condiTions Tor sTudy, girls living in The diT- TerenT corridors nominaTe candidaTes as procTors, and The Council appoinTs Trom Those suggesTed a number oT responsible girls, who will help To enTorce The house rules. ln case oT inTracTions oT rules, The Council levies The necessary penalTies. Hand in hand wiTh These serious duTies go The pleasanT acTiviTies ThaT malce up Truly gracious living. AT The beginning OT each year The Council greeTs all incoming women and makes Them Teel hearTily welcome. During The year plans Tor Two Tormal dances, one in The Fall and one in The Spring, are made. RecepTions Tor The whole college are given ioinTly wiTh The Women's League: Teas are spon- sored during exam weelcs To provide relaxaTion Trom The sTrain: Teas Tor TaculTy and Triends are given: and all Through The year inTormal geT-TogeThers Talce place once a monTh under The direcTion of The House Council.

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,- A A U A Alt' ,- Q 1 9 N 2, V, .- ,I Q - --,s - .st .A U ALPHA GAMMA RHO Alpha Gamma Rho, honorary scholasTic socieTy Tor Treshmen women, is someThing new aT Kalamazoo College. This socieTy was Tounded lasT year by Miss Birdena Donaldson Tor The purpose oT recognizing The scholasTic abiliTy oT Treshmen girls. ln order To be eligible Tor membership in The Alpha Gamma Rho, a girl musT aTTain a 2.5 or beTTer average during one semesTer oT her Treshman year. When The socieTy was organized, all eligible sophomore girls were admiTTed. However, aTTer The sophomore year, They are no longer acTive, and become honorary members. PresenT honorary members are: DoroThy HarT, RuTh Raseman, and DoroThy Reed. Sophomore members and oTTicers oT The socieTy are: ArdiTh Boelceloo, presidenT: Dione Fayling, Treasurer: PaT High, publiciTy manager: Jean McColl, secreTary7 LyneTTe SpaTh, vice- presidenT: and ConsTance Peck. This year Ten Treshrnen girls were inviTed To ioin The ranks oT The Alpha Gamma Rho. They are: Marcia Bach, ColeTTe Cleary, Grace CraTT, Mary Dulce, CynThia Earl, Cecelia Eby, Wilma FechTer, Verna Mae STeele, Virginia Taylor, and Lavon Woodward. The socieTy held iTs bangueT and iniTiaTion in March.

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TROWBRIDGE HOUSE lT's a new Trowbridge you'll Tincl This year aT The Top oT The hill. New rooms in The new wing sTill smelling TainTly oT damp plasTer . New mail boxes impersdhally yieuinoei he? Thrills or disappoinTmenTs . . A new dren machine daily disgorging gallons of iTs poTenT po- Tion .... A new guesT room, resTTul wiTh iTs soTTly shaded' Turniahing .... New pracTice rooms buT The samfcacbphonies wiThin .... Nqw chinlw TSTMS gracious giTT of The Women'5 gogcl. . .' . A new game room compleTe wiTh ping-pong ac- couTremenTs . . . . New.communibaTions sysTem Tor The ne.w where a graTing buz-z-Z replicos thg ou incgssanT iangling of The phone . ..,, N new dormihqf hand- book To keep The residenTs in Th me old sTraighT and narrew' ....', Swv salver service To enhance-The Teia pa?Ties . . . . New women's loungeg-resT for boTh The weary and The wicked . . . 1-New house moTher .... New girls .... New house- recreaTion chairman .9. . 9 BUT .... There are Things ThaT remain The same .... The peculiar ioy of new Triend- ships .... The camaraderie oT spreads . . . . Noise in The corridors-a conTinual crescendo and decrescendo Trom morning To nighT, buT always a major problem . . . . FighTing Tor The Tunnies . . . .The monoTonous grind oT sTud'y hall .... The menTal sTimulaTion of bull sessions . . . . The noT-so-sTaTely conclaves known as house meeTings .... The never-ending novel To be read beTween The lines oT The claTe cards .... The deadly inTensiTy oT The aT- mosphere aT exam Times .... Radios pour- ing TorTh swing and The classics wiTh equal vociTerousness .... The old reTrain- QuieT hours! .... The caTch in your ThroaT when The lighTs go ouT and you know you're laTe .... Dancing in The par- lors .... Singing in The halls .... Pranks aT miclnighT .... Alarms in The cold gray dawn .... Why, iT's The same old Trowbridge-our Trowbridge-aTTer all.