Lenoir Rhyne College - Hacawa Yearbook (Hickory, NC)

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The old St. Andrews Church 1921 INTERVIEWER: Were your rooms checked to see if you were in the bed? NARRATOR: Yes, they would usually check once in a while, and if you were making too much noise, they loould come and shoo us down. And if we were in another room after ten o ' clock, we were supposed to be in our rooms by a certain time, and if somebody slipped up from another hall, you know, from the back hall came up to the front — if they were in the wrong room, sometimes they ' d land up in the closet and hide. And the teachers would look in, they didn ' t find them of course, so they would go on. They checked to see that ev- ery one was in their rooms at a certain time. 30

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fe§L».: 2.%: ' v.- s- j: s. 29S4 1932 INTERVIEWER: What was dating like? How did the boys and girls get together? NARRATOR: Oyjce a month we were permitted to have call night. The boys wrote formal notes to their girls asking permission to call. The girls responded in the same formal mamier, accepting or rejecting. And for those who were going steady as Craig and I did for the last two and a half years we zvere there, why, it was different. Craig continued to write the formal note each time. And he was very precise and sedate, but he ended it by saying, if it was alright and I would accept for me not to bother to answer And so I didn ' t answer. Aside from formal dates, another time we could talk with one another was in the evening after dinrier All the students got out and walked back and forth — rather, strolled up and down the Warpath, which was the driveway from Old Main to the entrance of the campus, at the corner down where St. Andrew ' s is. We couldn ' t ivalk with the boys, but they walked just behind us and we could have many good talks together. Back and forth and back and forth we strolled. There was also another (pause) date that we had each spring, we had a faculty-student picnic. It was out on the Catawba River There was no dam on the river then, so there was no lake. The College furnished the picnic lunch. That was always a happy time, a gala time because we were with our lovers all day long. We walked to and from the river It was a delightful time. 19

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INTERVIEWER: Do you remember any of the stories about Freshman hazing? NARRATOR: Oh yes. We didn ' t have too much of it among the girls, but the boys did a good bit of this. We can remember the boys being paraded around the dormitory in their shorts . . . underclothes. Of course, we ' d all run to the windows, if we could keep any- body from seeing us, to find out what was going on. Then they had certain flag pole incidents. The Sophomore Class would have to keep their flag up over night on a certain special day and the boys would struggle all night long to see that the flag was kept on the top of the pole. I remember one girl in our dormitory. The Sophomores took her a great bunch of shoes to polish as one of her. . .tobe accepted into the class. She polished some of them and on some she wrote, Merry Christmas on them and different things like that. But I think the girls enjoyed wearing a dress backwards or something like that once in a while. 21