Northeastern University - Cauldron Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Schedules had to be checked And right away we learned about our non-profit bookstore.

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FRESHMEN By HAROLD BOND For some it will seem like a decade ago, a memory that is less real than fact, that registra- tion day in September of 1957. For some it will be something that never quite existed, a day made plausible only by the bridge that has been crossed since then. But for others it will be only yesterday, something more than fact, a reality that can be revivified to its minutest detail with a snap of the fingers. And they told us, they told us to look to our left and to look to our right and know that by next year one of us would be gone. Somehow it was too much to grasp. There were 1800 of us then, bright, eager and enthusiastic, fresh out of the high school classrooms of every corner of this world. Now as we leave, we are half our original force. Despite the seemingly endless red tape of registration day, it didn ' t take us long to get in- We read our information pamphlets in the Quad . . . . . . and got directions at the Student Union booth.

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corporated into the collegiate swing of things. Our warmed-over high school enthusiasm was damp- ened a bit as the Huskies were turned back, 12-7, in traditional fashion at the hands of the Rhody Rams. Football seemed to be in the spotlight more than usual that year. The UMass game was cancelled because of Asiatic flu, not long before Northeastern and Brandeis severed sports relations as a result of an injury inflicted upon a Brandeis player by NU captain Bo Lyons. Connie Pappas, under the guise of Emperor Constantine, triumphed in the Mayor of Huntington Ave. Contest after his followers voted him into office under promises of girls, orgies, girls, liquor and more girls. Northeastern ' s first Homecoming queen, pert and pretty Marsha Gatonska, reigned. The Silver Masque productions of the year were The Man Who Came to Dinner, Dark of the Moon, Oklahoma and The Caine Mutiny Court Martial. And a talented young freshman by the name of Tom McKee established for himself a name that was to be seen and heard for the next four years. Continuing in its expansion program, Northeastern purchased the Boston Opera House. Plans for a graduate center were subsequently re- vealed, and Dr. Arthur A. Vernon was appointed head of the Graduate School. The coeds discovered they were outnumbered 11 to 1.