North Carolina State University - Agromeck Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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registration and a new system ... While upperclassmen ' s cries of Hi, did you have a good summer? echoed around them, 1400 bewildered, but willing-to-learn, freshmen arrived on campus that bright Thursday, September 9. They listened with great interest to what their upperclassmen had to say concerning State and its activities. For the next five days they were up bright and early taking placement exams, going on campus tours, meeting their deans and attending an occasional dance. This was only the beginning of four hard years of work, fun and a new life. Then came the rest of the upperclassmen, each one with many tales of the summer. What had been a quiet campus all summer was suddenly bursting at its seams. There was a new semester system that was going into effect that was to be much discussed. There were to be three men to a room. And, of course, there was the usual discussion of which professor you should try to get, and the advice given by the sophomores to the new recruits. This was the beginning of State College 1954-1955 school year! Warm weather, long lines, thoughts of the semester system and of paving tuition made this a typical registration day. Get there early and you won ' t have to wait in line to register . . . Famous last words! Marilyn Collins, Miss Consolidated University, for us at the State-UNC game. Captain Steward was to join the Civic Music Association, but his friend, George Hall, seems to be looking at the scenery . . . All too soon the time comes around to settle with the Business Office, but only after standing in line for two hours . . .

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The studio was with activity. People were running around up microphones and arranging cord. Inside the control room engineers were dialing knobs and colored lights were on and off. No, of course not. This was WVWP starting their broadcast for the coming year under the capable hands of Sam Harrell. As a result of the last spring elections The AGROMECK was inherited by Editor John Gregg and Business Manager Don Joyce. New ideas came to the two; so they to Lynchburg, Virginia, to meet with the engravers and to get these ideas on paper. Things looked rosy from the outside but the honeymoon was over soon; they found they had inherited themselves a job. At the first meeting of the sta ff, John and Don told them that there are four things that make a yearbook: pictures, copy, policy and spirit. Pictures are taken, copy written; and policy is that guiding force that tells them that the staff must attend classes and they must pass their work or join the ranks of the flunkey club. And that ' s where spirit enters the picture—the will to keep going. That ' s how it was—the beginning of a new book. Others just hoped . . . and editors and business managers pulled hair Welcome Frosh. Yes, The Technician met the freshman class as they came to State College. Under the of John Parker, the editor, The Technician was slated for the biggest year in its history. While worried about the editorial side, John Puckett, the business manager, was slowly pulling his hair out to balance the year ' s budget.

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Who is Hans rushing? The Sigma Nu Dance What ' s better than a Pika Party ? Henry on the job! The TKE party in their new house The K.A. ' s dinner where is Robert E. Lee? and new blood for the greeks.