Longwood College - Virginian Yearbook (Farmville, VA)

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We re ver p fond of the Faculty • PHE Home Office was a refuge between classes ... a • ■ place where we betook oiirselves at all lioiivs of the (lay ... a jDlace to leave our books while we went to Shannon ' s for breakfast, to meet and greet people, to make important local and long distance calls. Re- member the cheerful fire on winter mornings . . . im- portant little slips on the mantel . . . the clutter of telearams on Valentine ' s Dav . . . excitinjj, ' fiower S. L. Graham Business Manager ' IRGILIA I. BUGG Registrar boxes stacked in there for the luckier of us . . . Mrs. McCoy ' s wonderful kindness to us? Just ddwn the hall is Miss Mary ' s office. We learned to know well the permission file and the weariness of standing in line minute after minute, and the inevitable dread of Have you taken your cuts before Miss Marv, gracious Head of the Home, presided at the desk, patiently reviewing our permissions, and, with her usual insight, guiding our pleasures and our labors. Rachael Eoyall, vivid and attractive, came this year to be iliss Mary ' s secretary in the place of Jane Royall. She also became ad- viser to the Junior Class ; tactful and kind, she has been a g aiide and an inspiration to us all this year. f Hli Miss Mary White Cox [lead of the Home IvACHKi. Royall B. s. iSeerctiiry to Head of Home IXME V. HlXER Treasurer Maud K. Taxiajferro Postmistress

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So many things that count. When the rest of the school had arrived and finished embracing each other joyfully in the halls, we all settled down to meet , appraise, and get acquainted with the new girls. The upper- classmen seemed to like these young invaders very well, and when the new class got really under way after rat week, the whole school marveled at their spirit. When we look back on the past school years, there ' s a little nostalgic feeling that creeps over us. When we look ahead, some of us at more school years, some of us at years out in this mixed-up world, we feel sad- ness because school is so soon over. Perhaps that is what they call the Farmville spirit. In any ease, dorm life is a funny thin, different ingredients go together to make a well-rounded school existence . . . long, chatty walks in the brisk fall air . . . short, quick walks across the campus un- der the stars . . . sitting in Shannon ' s conducting an involved discussion over cokes, despite the milling multitude . . . studying frantically in the small hours for a French test . . . talking to Maggie Wright about Winnie-the-Pooh . . . trying not to care too much becaiTse Box 452 collects dust and no mail . . . watch- ing Sadie, dressed like something out of the dark ages, frightening people into iits in the middle of the night . . . worrying a lot because exams are in less than a week, and not doing much about it . . . feeling the tingle of excitement that runs over the whole school when a dance week-end conies around . . . smelling grease paint, and knowing the Left to right: Peery, German, ilcGuire. Gresh- aui. West, Graft: Saunders, Allen. Harman. I ft to right: McFall, Xelson, Avers, Renfro, Campljell. jo • of working long hours to present a play or a class production . . . playing hard at hockey and basket- ball . . . being glad because of small victories, and shrugging off small defeats . . . laughter . . . tears . . . friendships . . . dorm life is funny. It has a wa ' of STOwing on its. Left picture, left to right: Duer, Parks, Williams, Worsham, Whitlock. ilr. Shannon. Ed. Dodson. Brown. Middle picture, left to right: Winstead, Wlielchel, Parks, Conner, Gooden. Right picture, left to right: Rosebro, Parks, Cottrell, Hnrt. Dodson.

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Mr. Graham kept his usual busy pace, and between times went off for his fishing or hunting trips (al- ways promising we could go). The Registrar ' s Office, when the smell of fresh paint wore away, eft ' ectively checked our grades, schedules, and class cuts. Miss Bugg held the usual conferences with us and prevented schedules from be- coming too perplexing. We kept the Business Office busy, and Miss Hiner, who never became impatient, helped us with financial matters. The Book Room and Post Office, iliss Taliaferro ' s domain, never was out of stamps or music books or laboratory manuals. Mrs. Shelton planned the menus again and gave us lovely banquets at Hallowe ' en and Christmas. Miss Lila London was the math, genius, and liss Taliaferro saw us through the agonies of Calculus and Trig. We learned kinesiology ( and even how to spell it) from ] liss Barlow as well as the enlighten- ing information of health education. Plead of the Geography Department, Miss Grace Moran, with her shining white hair and lovely face, fielped us pursue the problems of world population. Miss Waters, ab- sent in the fall quarter because of sickness, returned after Christmas to resume her work in the Geography Department. Each year we have seen the music department enlarge its programs under Mr. Strick, who this yeai ' has done even more in arranging the excellent concert with Harvard and Duke. He tire- lessly accompanies Chapel hymns, and IMiss Purdom directs from the state, wielding a trusty baton. Dr. Wynne had his room redecorated, and no one could pass without paying tribute to the new furnish- ings. As head of the Education Department and di- LisABETH Purdom B. Music Assistant Professor of Music Alfred H. Strick Professor of Music Lila London E. s.. M. A. Professor of Matliematics Willie R. McKee, R. . Reside lit Xurse Grace U. iloKAX B. .S., M. A. Associate Professor of Oeographij Carrie 13. Taliaferro B. .s.. M. A. Professor of Matlieinatics ilARY Barlow B. s.. n. A. Professor of Phi sieul and IJealth Ediiriitioii Frances Waters Assistant Professor of (leography