Mount Holyoke College - Llamarada Yearbook (South Hadley, MA)

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r7 o v mi.v Bliu Prints Charming November I The Iloly Hoax . . . Dottie Bucknam as the chairman produced a triumphant Junior Show . . . The story created by Natalie Warner and W innifred Michel - bacher reminded us of a certain college—is it Farheard?—and did we recognize any of those fair students? This was a Show of shows . . . and one girl pretending she was a man pretending he was a girl . . . that was the situation. The good singing afterward from balcony to balcony . . . and that satisfied feeling of having seen something worth seeing. So thanks, '41. How could we help recalling The Blue Prints Charming 9 ... we had the same fun giving ours that you had with yours. The only Junior Show swing orchestra takes its how ... the cross-section indoor-outdoor set . . . the intellectual treatment of Stimpson Room slippers . . . many questions still tor- ment us, brought about by the show . . . the unsolved one concerning the girl we all know who has four meetings at once . . . does a ghost blink the lights at quarter of ten . . . And who stole those prints anyhow? 12

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But six o'clock ilie social order was restored . . dinner, with Senior and Freshman united ... Winter arnival“ ieariously in Chapin, and ice cream ... Ml this a sign that the morning was in fun. white of ultra-sophistication. Thi 8 is Llamic dance . . . Freshmen hehold how it is done in the approved Holyoke style . . . Barbara Fate and her committees are responsible for the kind of dance we are proud to have to initiate you into. this, our social life . . . Newt Perry’s orchestra, very swing. Chapin turned into a new world, gowns as onl we can wear them, flowers to fit the mood, and these are the men we told you about . . . This dance which is such fun for you. so nice for him. is helping us . . . Mamie dance helps to pay for the publica- tion of this year hook. Arc you having any Fun? UJJ said! October 20 Chapin in a new mood: new sound, new background ... so these are the sidewalks of New York, lighted by street lamps, under the shadow of the sky-scrapers which mark the horizon ... the black and So here is October and college is really going at a normal pace . . . blue books, cokes in the village, movies in Holyoke, cigarettes on Pageant, typing in the dining room long after ten, blind dates, reserve hooks, and Friday fish. 11

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Jascha Heifetz November 9 First of I hr concert series, sponsored by Mount llolvokeand 11 olvoke Junior Service • V Corps . . . jasrlia Heifetz playing with near per- fection to Chapin full to capacity .. . Bach sonata unaccompanied as the climax of the concert and the fugue the most per- fect of the movements of the sonata. Also the per- formance of a work by Conus showed both the beauty of the composi- tion and the skill of the violinist, lie also played from Beethoven. Mozart. Tsehaikow- sky, Godowskv. ami Scott. ovembrr 10 The day began at the crack of dawn, with Freshmen following tradition demanding the ice cream which was their right, at six a. m. at Mary Lyon s grave. The ice cream ap- peared, the Seniors appeared in caps and gowns... even one alumna was there mak- ing this year a specially designated one . . . There is some doubt as to the awakeness of the occasion didn't someone mislay that box at the corner of the grave? bbey was officially welcomed to the group of dormitories at the housewarming . . . student guides and student hostesses proud to display the modern rooms, fitted closets, impressionistic smoking room, and beautifully appointed formal living room . . . Students have put aside studying for the day . . . this is a festival. By I 01471 ’ s luirlv lAflht