Oberlin College - Hi-O-Hi Yearbook (Oberlin, OH)

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at Wifi TOUR years the class of 1941 has worked. Long afternoons they spent in the lab- oratories and the practice roomsz, long eve11ings they studied at the library. And for four years the class of 1941 has played. ' . 0' O11 at They danced at recs, played ping p g Goodrich, drank cokes at the Varsity. In their four years they have seen women's rules revised until now a Senior can stay ' ' Th out til twelve on Saturday nights. ey ' h erin as have heard the pounding and amm g the library assumed new proportions. They sponsored a campaign building. for a Student Union And at the end of the four years they have ' their h nded in their theses, and given a Senior Recitals-products of their four can't hand in their b raded but they hope ' has years of work. They personalities to e g , that four years of Oberlin society broadened them, as much as it has sharpened leave Oberlin for a world about which nothing is certain, they onl trust that Oberlin has given them can y ' 111ore than a diploma with which to meet ' their problems. their minds. As they ffxv 3, - ' OFFICERS Gorden Bennett, Presirlentg Jean Holt, Secretary- ' B ers Social Trensurerg Lois Welch and Robert e , Chairmen..

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asf 2 '55 fs-gd tttlii Some nl Us Are in Front oi the Desks. ROM every state in the Union, from twenty-seven foreign countries come the students that make up Oberlin's eighteen hundred. As Freshmen and Sophomores, they learn to labor, and labor at their learning. They get their first tastes of Oberlin manners and traditions. Home becomes that desk in the corner of the room, and bluebook means coffee, caffein pills, or cokes to keep awake with. They fight among each other to keep alive the Frosh-Soph tradition. By the time they are Juniors, the pattern has become stereotyped. Tradition has become habit. Libe dates, coke dates, bicycles, the arb, bridge at chapel time, these are the accepted manner- isms of Oberlin. The Oberlin way. And then, all of sudden, Freshmen are Seniors. Seniors, with Recitals to give, theses to write. Swiftly the year passes, the Senior is no longer a Senior, but an individual, a citizen, ready to work, vote, settle down, marry. Then it is that he likes to look back and remember. lllay these pages help l1im.

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SENIUHS 1 School lllusir: V Beal, I. History Barleaux, M. L. l Adair, H. History Q Hfzilkinson, S. Sociology MQ? fflaluflw Barlleman., D. Violin Beaver, A. Kindergarten Prim. 24 Ainsworlh, K. Alexander P Anderson C Anthony B M usic Sociology Organ Pre llledzcal QAxl.ell, L. xBdllLClPk R Baker I Rarnhdrl T' Histoljy S1 hool A411510 Pnglish Sociology 941 Beck, J. Pre-llffeflical Beer, A. Physics Vlieers, R. Sociology Weller, N. Political Science Bennett, G. Political Science Besl, P. Piano 9Bickel, E. Spanish Bingham, K. Pre-Medical JD sul Ufrrk' Jmringer, M. M athematics 'Blackburu, A. Organ, J Blackmarr, M. Piano 62 School Music 'J Blanshard, P. Sociology