North Carolina Wesleyan College - Dissenter Yearbook (Rocky Mount, NC)

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Thursday, September 26, 7968: What do you mean, you and Dad are coming down for Parent's Weekend? Well, look, I have a lot of studying to do . . .Are you sure you want to come? Well, okay. Could you bring some food with you? See you then. Friday, September 27, 7968: Don't open that door! All the stuff will fall out. . . Somebody wash that stuff off the bathroom wall. Get that bottle outa sight, huh? Saturday, September 28, 7968: Man on the hall! Hey watch your mouth! My mom's up here on the hall. How come the Dean knew your name? Where are we going to eat? Oh no, not the cafeteria! Hon, do we have to sit out here in the sun and watch them kick around that little checkered ball? Bill, do you think we could go see the fashion show, now? Listen, while you and Dad are at the banquet and out visiting the professors, could l have the car? What do you mean you're going to stop in at the dance? Me? Goto Chapel in the morning? Yes, ma'am. Sunday, September 29, 7968: Bye Have a nice trip home. Oh, and Dad. . .I'm short a few dollars. . . Please drop us a line and let us know if you're still alive. These were the typical comments heard round campus the last weekend in September. ln the beginning, the students were somewhat apprehensive about opening their realm of existence to their parents. As plans began to materialize, however, the students started to look forward to the weekend. Saturday morning, the Bishops club welcomed a deluge of parents. Student enthusiasm was evident in the displays outside the dorms. Edgecombe Hall won the contest with their display of manikin guys climbing up makeshift ladders and into the girls' third floor windows. Parents were kept busy from early Saturday morning until Sunday afternoon. First came registration and the guided tours around campus, then lunch, a soccer game for the fathers and a fashion show for the mothers. Dinner was held at Buck Overton's, followed by open house at the homes of various faculty members and administrators. Saturday evening, the Beanie Removal Dance was held, parents were invited to attend, and many did. Some even got into the swing of things. Sunday, a short chapel service was held in the gym. The parents and the Wesleyan community united in worship. Shortly after lunch, parents said their fond farvvells to their children. 24

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5'-if if Orientation XM-ek, the traditional methoil of initiating trt-shrnen into the XM-slt-xan Cfoinintinitv began St-pti-inlit-i first, ks they aiiixeil on tamptis, five or six tipperclassmen helped unload their eeai Name tags were issued and instructions given. Xloins and Dads It-It for homeg the frosh were li-ft in the capable hands til the Orientation Committee, The 'titi Committee, under the clirt-cation of Charlie lxt-mp, had begun its work. Activities of previous vears were rent-wedg among them, the Presidentk reteption, the Luau and the Nash Hall reception X'X ith a new and imaginative committee in the lead, new events were included in the schedule. One evening brought a pool partyg a picnic at Belmont Lake filled another day. The Freshmen donned their Beanies at a dance held in their honor at the end of the week. After the traditional hazing by upperclassmen, Hell Week was over. Those who violated Rules for Freshmen were brought before Kangaroo Court and given their due punishment The Frosh were allowed to fight for the right to remove their Beanies a week early in the annual Field Day Competition. When the games were over, the freshmen had lost so the Beanies remained on. The big moment finally came during the Beanie Removal Danceg the freshmen removed their Beanies and became approved members of the VVesIeyan society. Frosh pull against the upperclassmen in the igueaof-xxar -X fixi,--foot rleep reward awaited the losers, 23

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