Lipscomb University - Backlog Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Summer Students Transform Worktime Into Funtime Suntan, softball, and wooden spoon typified our life at Lipscomb as the new fourth quarter wedded socials in the spring to football in the fall. Sum- mer quarter seemed to most to be just another quarter . . . almost. While others vacationed, six-hundred returned to campus in June armed with tennis rackets, golf clubs, and suntan lotion to spend the summer in “serious” pursuit of knowledge. Bare ankles and arms soaked up hot summer sun, while inside, win- try blasts from cold air-conditioned “comfort” brought out goosebumps and sweaters during aca- demic hours. On lazy afternoons, insipid fans sat in shaded grass watching energetic fellow-Greeks with bat, ball, and mitt. Late shadows elongated into dusk. Stars and luminaries twinkled through swaying leaves. Nights brought watermelon feasts, folk operas, devotionals, outings, fun... a panoramic summer. LIPSCOMB’S SUMMER theatre brought a new form of drama to the Lipscomb stage in the form of the folk musical. A LATE summer graduation was the beginning for the second August graduates in Lipscomb’s history. Newly acquired sheepskins quickly went to work in the coming fall as new teachers entered the classrooms; potential executives sat at their desks; and marriage yows exchanged. a2

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Confused Freshmen Conquer Battle of Initial Year Standing on the threshold of four years of col- lege, first quarter students experienced the first pangs of mixed emotions. Thrilled, excited, nos- talgic, fearful, and eager, each new student was tormented by one important question: Will I, or won’t I, be a a success in college? Only grades would show for sure. Seven September days formed a period of ad- justment. Freshman Orientation Week gave new students their first sample of college exams. Skill- tests in English, math, the sciences, art, and mu- sic transformed short days into long, long days. Counselor-counselee meetings acquainted students with quality point hieroglyphics and required courses for the traumatic first registration. Afternoons and evenings treated frosh to their first glimpse of the times upper-classmen love the most. Football, softball, picnics in Percy and Ed- win Warner Parks, fireside chats with the faculty, a reception line, a concert by A Cappella, games, a bonfire, and devotionals developed lasting friend- ships and a love of college life, even before the return of older students to campus. “LET’S SEE, I believe he was here in 1958.” John Hutcheson searches through faces of the past for a former student at the freshman reception. GROANS AND sorrowful sighs become clearly audible as green freshmen are suddenly merged into the college en- vironment with endurance testing entrance examinations and aptitude tests which results are tabulated by the IBM. 11

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ALPHA DOMINANCE carried over into the social realm as the Alpha luau proved to be one of the most elaborate parties ever held in the club’s history. be highly worthy of its name as discarded melon rinds were THE ANNUAL late summer Melon Mess proved to : covered the ground and most Lipscomb students. tossed into overflowing barrels and slippery melon seeds 13