Northwest Missouri State University - Tower Yearbook (Maryville, MO)

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WALKOUT DAY Walkout Day arrived last Fall, just as it always does, on the day when almost everyone supi osed it could not possibly be. Many were the wailings and moanings or the Freshmen as the husky members or the M-Club herded them into double rile rows and headed them in the general direction oi town. On the way to the business section, a few small burdens were loaded upon the shoul- ders of the suffering first-year men. How- ever, the real test of their endurance came when they arrived at the court house. There, various means of torture were devised by the big badmen. Some of the girls suffered the pangs of pulling tape out of a tangled mass of hair, and a great many of the boys had no hair left from which to pull anything. Long to be remembered are the two Fresh- men pushing the potatoes down Second Street with their noses, as a penalty for try- ing to escape. From there, following the many attempts at buttoning on Main Street, the merry group proceeded to the College pond where the traditional dunking of a few characters was enacted. For the first time in the history of the College, a Freshman of the opposite sex was also dunked. Alyce Whitlatch be- came the first woman to be initiated by a bath in the pond. From the pond, the girls sought to regain their shoes from a pile containing all the freshman shoes in school. Then to the col- lege park where the whole school joined together in an all-school picnic. Page 14