Lenoir Rhyne College - Hacawa Yearbook (Hickory, NC)

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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

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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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Daniel Efird Rhyne Building completed in 1928. Old Main burns January 6, 1927. INTERVIEWER: Could you describe any of the activities going on at the College? Chapel? Luther League? NARRATOR: Yes, we had compulsory chapel every morning whether you had class or not that morning. To me, this was very meaningful. I learned a great variety of hymns that I would never have known if it hadn ' t been for those exercises. The fact of the matter, if you went to church at night, you could have a date. You could get to see the hoys, which was quite a unique experience. But these were very meaningful to me and then we did have some other religious activities . . . groups that would meet for special purposes. 22