Meredith College - Oak Leaves Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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MEREDITH FRESHMEN arc sere- naded by a quartet of older angels during orientation. First Encounters at Meredith Dear Mom and Dad, Remember that long meeting we went to in Jones Auditorium on August twenty- third when faculty members spoke to us about finally mak- ing it to good ole ' M.C.? Well, that was only a first. After leav- ing y ' all I began my long, tir- ing, and yes! . . . exciting ori- entation week. went to hall meetings after hall meetings, meetings with my faculty advisor and student advisor, on a treasure hunt around campus (that ' s when I got my exercise for the whole month of September), and last but not least, to President Weems ' s home. The new long dress y ' all bought me finally was put to use that Sunday night. Can you image all of the freshmen in long dresses rid- ing chartered Cat buses? Well, it was a lot of fun getting to meet the president himself and our future professors. This has been one hectic but memorable week — as y ' all can probably tell. Right now I am about to drop dead, and ' think I ' ll try to catch some Z ' s. Love, Your new Angel REGISTRATION in Johnson Hall was required for freshmen before they could move in. Events 157

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PICKING UP HER BAG, Leigh Mauney realizes that she is finally at Meredith College. MOVING IN Fathers get the chance to lend a much needed helping hand during the moving process. My Bags Are Packed. Am I Ready To Go? For the second year in a row, Mary Jane Johnson and Nancy Small packed (into the back of the Volvo and Mercedes) their boxes of beach music albums, a stereo, Levis, Polos, pink and green dresses, pictures of their boyfriends (Jim and Larry), old pictures that they might want to hang up, and towels and sheets. They were going light this year. Moving-in day, August 23 (August 20 for freshmen) started off with a bang for them. Jim and Larry arrived forty-five minutes late for the starting of the caravan. Mary Jane and Nancy tried to over- look that fact because they were just too excited about seeing their old suitemates, new suitemates, and friends, to think about something so trivial. Finally the crew piled into the cars one last time. They were on their way to M.C. An hour later, the Johnsons, the Smalls, and Jim and Larry drove down the long road to Johnson Hall. Mr. Shattuck, the well known M.C. security guard, was doing his duty and directed them to a parking place. Luckily, it was close to Brewer, since Mary Jane and Nancy were living on the sec- ond floor there. Everyone piled out of the two cars. The trunk lids popped up, and the boxes were stacked on the ground. Nancy and Mary Jane were nowhere to be found, for they had bolted up to second Brewer to see Sarah, Becky, Carol, and the other group of now sopho- mores. Meanwhile, Jim and Larry made their first trip up- stairs carrying a load ranging from stuffed animals, to last summer ' s beach pictures, to stereo speakers. While search- ing for room two-thirteen, they were dodged by Meredith Angels carrying their own bags and boxes. Finally they discov- ered the room, its door stand- ing open, they dumped the junk on the beds. The parents followed close behind with four more armfuls. Mary Jane and Nancy greeted Jim, Larry, and their parents as they walked out of the room. Nan- cy introduced Larry and Jim to her new suitemate at a speed of at least ten miles an hour. Nancy grabbed Mary Jane ' s arm and took off towards the other end of the hall, leaving Jim and Larry to wander down the hall towards the parking lot. By twelve o ' clock, the men were s-1-o-w-l-y trudging up to the second floor. How much more stuff? they wondered. Larry commented that he ' d never known any two women to bring so much to school with them — not even his whole family had as much as those two. The men vaguely remembered Mary Jane and Nancy making one trip to their room about two hours back — carrying posters of Jimmy Buf- fett. The room looked like a trash receptacle. There wasn ' t an empty space on the floor, the desk, or either bed. The rest was for Mary Jane and Nancy to sort out — wherever they were . . . 156 . ' F. vents

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PANIC Is the Word Registration may seem easy to the Meredith women who have experienced it be- fore. For freshmen, however, registration may seem . . . well, not so simple after all. August twenty-fifth, nineteen eighty one brought not only another hot summer day, but also freshmen orientation groups invading the library at scheduled times. Early and midmorning groups had a wider variety of classes to choose from than afternoon orientation groups. By two o ' clock p.m. a majority of classes was closed, except for those dreadful eight o ' clocks. Students fumbled their way through the lines changing and rechanging their schedule many times. By l ate afternoon students clutched a computer print out sheet containing de- sired schedules. MEREDITH WOMEN pick up com- puter printout schedules after regis- tration. BOOKS AND MORE BOOKS: Be- tween classes and other school activi- ties, students had to find time to buy their books for the 1981-82 school year. ANXIOUS STUDENTS turn in line. 158 Events