Lake Erie College - Tiber Yearbook (Painesville, OH)

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pins made their debut . . . so did the class with a tea that brought forth unexpected rever- berations . . . we fearfully sent our mellowed saddle shoes off to the rummage sale . . . economics victorious over sentiment . . . and to everyone's astonishment, won our first swimming meet and the cup for class plays! . . . senior week-end dissolved in tears and songs . . . Grove Day we sang our cherished sister class songs for the last time, vividly transported back to the day we arrived, four years ago . . . When we were freshmen . . . the largest class that had entered Lake Erie for several years . . . thirty-five strong and more conscious of our quantity than our quality . . . Mr. Hickerson appalled us by deciding we were vegetables . . . we were a little self-conscious . . . ranting at the slightest provocation just to hear the reassuring sound of our own voices . . . we found the treasure and bolstered our wilted egos . . . and the dates we enticed to Painesville for that first tea dance . . . a fraternity picked at random, complete with pledges . . . the idea was a good one, but not fool proof . . . however, it launched us upon our social career which, like the baptismal tea dance, has proven exceedingly interesting but not without its minor catastrophes . . . Sophomore year we went conservatively wild . . . staying up all night talking about Life and Challenges. . . the Christmas formal . . . we returned from vacation saddened by the death of our classmate, Aileen Reed . . . we furnished the idea of our incomparable Billie for the first musical comedy, Long Live the Swing . . . and to everyone's delight received our first athletic championships when Starkie won the golf and Dottie the tennis cups . . . feel- ing our first intimations of sorrow at Commencement when we said good-bye to thirty- seven . . . We'll never forget you, though the years may pass. . . We were good juniors . . . selling so many sandwiches we seriously considered giving them as prom favors . . . our resigning sponsor, Mrs. Blakely, presented us with a mascot in the form of one Jonathon . . . we took the drama cup. . . and prom . . . glamorous, ex- citing, and successful beyond our wildest dreams . . . the stars looked down and fortunate- ly didn't fall . . . lone going quietly mad at the last minute . . . Marg developing a sudden vital interest in the services of the Western Union . . . Joyce on a step ladder . . . every- one agog over seeing the original owner of Wiltsie's pin . . . Janet serenading Mrs. Crandall all the way back from the Yacht Club . . . Dottie and her escort who occasioned a remark on the size of the moths in Chicago . . . Betty Bandlow looking like something out of l-larper's Bazaar . . . and Becky in white satin with a Cheshire cat air about her . . . And suddenly we were seniors . . . Mary Beth fighting and praying over the senior pictures . . . Bunny's three sittings, each worse than the one before . . . Griff practice teaching . . . Gerry leaning out of a window in the chem lab . . . Kay wearily emerging from too much Government . . . Clare raving about Helen Perry , . , Mary Lou and the classics . . . Phee and her Charleses . . . Rosie and the Washington trip . . , Phoebe Ann in flying clothes . . . senior recitals by June, Billie, and Wilts . . . and Pat luxuriating in the peace and quiet of the library . . . thirty-nine managing things . . . Nancy and the Community Fund . . . Frances and the Lantern . . , Billie and Y Dub . . . The seniors are a voice, crying in the wilderness . . . and our last year is almost over. . . we only know that it has been the briefest, the happiest, and the best . . . we are singing to the seniors . . . hail, thirty-nine. . . Joyce Allyn Schelly '39 C3111 emnrg f19f Elfileen Qfieait twenty-three

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THE SENIOR CLASS it EMILIE BELLE DAVIS RUTH LOUISE STARK JANET ELIZABETH PAUL Buffalo, New York Elyria, Ohio Akron, OI'liO SOCIOLOGY SOCIOLOGY BIOLOGY Philosophy Club 2, 3, 4, Oberlin College 1 Science Club 2, 3, 4 Secretary-Treasurer 2, 3 Art Club 2 CIWOII' I, 2, 3 Home Economics Club 2, 3 Basketball Manager 2 Lantern Staff 3 French Club 3 Honorary Member Lantern Staff 2 Y. W. C. A, CGblr1Bt 4 Y. W. C. A, Sec. 3, President 4 Golf 2, 3, 4 Student Counselor 3 Student Counselor 3 Bowling 2, 3, 4 Aviation Club l, 2, 4 Lantern Staff 2, Editor 3 Commencement Play 2 CIOSS TFGOSUVSF 4 Junior Revue 2, 3, Glee Club 3, 4 Tea Dance Chairman 3 Assistant Director 3 French Club 3, 4 Scroll Board 2 Choir 3, 4 Tiber Business Board 2, 35 Y. W. C. A. Vice President 3, Advertising Manager 3 Program Chairman 4 Tiber Literary Board 4 Tiber Board 3, 4 Dramatics l, 2 Athletic Board, Manager 3 Golf 2 Student Counselor 3 Class Vice President 3, 4 Class President 3, 4 SENIOR CLASS HISTORY O now we are at the beginning of the end of our college days. Before setting up our carcl tables and filling our fountain pens we shall stop for a moment to talk of ships and seal- ing wax. We'll leave the lcnotty future, and linger with fleeting melancholy over the years when we were younger than we are, and Time was not so fast a-flying. With rousing glee we burst into senior year singing I would rather be a senior and a triumphant black and gold they are our colors . . . life was a not very minor heaven, with caps and gowns instead of halos . . . Founders' Day we suffered our annual defeat in hockey, but after four years one becomes reconciled to anything . . . the senior dance, for once an unqualified success, was balm to our collective vanity. . .besides, Miller had found the cake the night before, neatly enthroned on top of the telephone booth . . . we revelled in our twelve forty-five permissions . . . particularly since the D. U.'s and Betas suddenly be- gan to appear on our campus in soul-satisfying numbers . . . after Christmas the fraternity twenty-two

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MARY LOU AVERILL Painesville, Ohio LATIN Hiram College I Kappa Alpha Sigma 3, 4 Y. W. C. A. Cabinet 3 Lantern Staff 3 5 i - N, Q ,. ELIZABETH BACHMAN Sharon, Pennsylvania ENGLISH Glee Club 3, 4 Chair 2, 3, 4 Aviation Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Sec.-Treas. I, President 4 International Relations Club 2, 3, 4 Philosophy Club 3 French Club 2, Honorary Member 3, 4 Class President 2 Hockey I, 2, 3, 45 Manager I, 3 Basketball I, 2, 3, 4 Swimming l, 2, 3, 41 Manager 2 Track I, 2, 3, 4 Riding 4 Student Counselor 3 College Lite Guard 3, 4 Athletic Board 4 Junior Revue 3 Lantern Staff, Advertising Manager 3 Tiber Board 4, Advertising Manager 4 twenty-four