Montclair State College - La Campana Yearbook (Upper Montclair, NJ)

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THE SENIOR CLASS

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THE STAFF OF THE PALATINE Editor-in-Chief Dorothy K. Beecher Business Manager AucE Scott Social Editor Eleanor Browning Art Editors Grace Aedritch Winifred Barrett Statisticians Adeeaide Lewinsohn Marion Hanigan Advertising Manager Adelaide Ford Ruth Keator Athletic Editor Marion Bennett Alumnae Editor Katharyn McDonald Joke Editor Emily Briggs

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Senior Class History |NE bright day last September the greater part of the class which has since become icnown as tlie Seniors arrived unsophisticated and unsuspecting of the trials and hardships awaiting us. No sooner had we entered the stately halls of M. N. S. than a change seemed to envelop our mental faculties. Pity ' ttSi-. tis true, that we were unaware of Miss MacMulIan, who was to exert upon us a large part of the privilege of mouTdrng us into efficient school-marmsr- First ca me the shock of the conring pelling te.sts. In due time the ominous day arri ed - and Miss MacMullarl stood on the platform uttering worcls of- warning. Then the flood broke, word upon word, thick and fast ! What mental powers we bad Dreviously possessed were now drenched by the deluge, and we forgot what we did know. The results of these comprehensive tests we will leave to the fertile imagination of you, gentle reader. Before proceeding further with this narrative it is meet that we describe in some general way the character of the subject of our efforts — the Class of 1919. We, the historians, having pledged ourselves to write a strictly impartial and non-partisan account of its fortunes, nevertheless are conscientiously forced to confess tiat a more brilliant class never entered the spacious halls of Montclair Normal School. In ac- cordance with this statement, the more thoughful well-wishers of the institution have been secretly known to shake their heads in dire forebodings of the time when the class Cff 1919 having departed, its vitality will cease to enliven the school. In the first place we are all females, having had the honor of but one male student ' s company and this we enjoyed for only a few weeks in the early part of our career. Since that time, however, we have kept strictly to one sex, a fact which, no doubt, has had much to do with our brilliancy. As soon as we became settled in our daily routine we awoke to the fact that we were in need of a class president. For the Jr. B term, Dorothy Beecher was chosen President of the class, taking the general