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

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Dates Lois Closson Zoology Elizabeth Marie Cock Art and Archaeology Elinor Edna Codina English Literature Mary Isabelle Cochrane Economics and Sociology

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Blind I Freshman year . . . Blind dates . . . we reminisce and remem- ber how our big sister rushed around, called up her mans fra- ternity house over at Amherst or Mass. State, and presented us with the familiar, A good boy . . . you'll be crazy about him . . tall . . . broad-shouldered . . . good dancer . . . keen sense of humor, etc.” Of course, some of us were lucky and met the dream man at Llamie, our first big fall formal. Others, not so fortunate, had to grin and bear it”, but, anyhow, the excite- ment was there even if he didn't have everything. After Llamie weekend, there were house dances where we met blind dates by drawing numbers out of the hat or by switching partners in a broom dance. Let s see . . . who was he? In uniform, prob- ably ... a Westover man ... a V-12 at Yale ... a pre-West- Pointer or Navy pre-flight at Amherst, perhaps. Then, in the Spring, the sophs invited us to Soph Hop and we were fixed up” once more. Chapin was a candy store and huge lollipops smiled at us from the walls . . . Blind dates ... we can smile as we remember the naive blunders which we must have made . . . but all seems dim and long ago by now . . . Are you hating any fun?”

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Ring Presentation Solution to the riddle of the sphinx Freshman Ring Presentation was our first chance to prove ourselves a unit as a class. Here, we started out with the novelty which was later to prove a tradition for the class of ’47. As the central rheme was Egyp- tian, we constructed a huge sphinx which was massive enough to fill the whole stage of Chapin. To add to the effect, we draped ourselves in sheets, donned Egyptian head-dresses and neckpieces, and marched down the aisles of Chapin in time to a w'eird chant. The short skit given on stage was climaxed by the mad dash of Sally Jackson down the center aisle of Chapin. She had solved the riddle of the sphinx at last! The answer to the riddle was presented to the audience in the form of an enormous ‘47 class ring. Here, through the tangible strength of this new bond, we found ourselves a real part of Mr. Holyoke. Kathleen Marie Connors Mary-Elizabeth Cozzio Miller Margaret Craig Romance Languages Archaeology Zoology