Millersville University - Touchstone Yearbook (Millersville, PA)

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No splashing in the ocean, bathing in the sun. or camping in the mountains for those of us who gathered our books and trotted to classes! In-service teachers, working for a degree or permanent certification; regular enrollecs accelerating or picking up credits—we were the poor summer students. The daily agenda: from eight to twelve-thirty, except for laboratory; then more often than not. part-time jobs at home. The few students that remained in the dormitories tried to make an empty building homelike by a spirit of cooperation. There were of course the lighter moments. The recreational program began on June 17 with a card party on the veranda of the old Girls’ Dormitory. Following this, throughout the summer, were watermelon parties, softball games, swimming parties, and motion pictures shown in the old gym. A bus was chartered and 37 students went to the Mi. Gretna Playhouse to see the Broadway show, Yes My Darling Daughter. The summer school activity committee sponsored these affairs, and the students’ activity fund financed them. Frank Rounds, junior embassy attache for the United States, was the speaker of the initial assembly program presented in the new Lyte Auditorium. His topic was “Report from Mos-