Old Dominion University - Troubador Yearbook (Norfolk, VA)

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Undoubtedly, you actually found the time of your life in the parties, teas, and dances of the clubs. The Inter-Club Council welcomed you to the school with an afternoon tea. Before long, the Swing Band entertained at convocation. Because feet couldn't keep still, the musicians agreed to play several times in the afternoons. New February students in '47 witnessed the first afternoon dance at the Division. Later, the monogram clubs sponsored a Victory Dance in honor of our basketball team, the Tidewater Champs. The success led to Spring dances. You remember, the Swing Band, the informality of the instructors, and the congeniality of the grateful students who all shared in the glad and gay times of those afternoon dances. Other informal occasions occurred after the basketball games. Buds was bright and welcoming. Excitement was still in the air. And the juke box was all yours. Alice Jett Aubrey Hudgins Dorothy Howe Larry Copeland Jane Lee Daugherty Fred Curling William Murphy Ted Bacallis Sam Crosswhite Wilbert Klingmeyer Paula Kroskin Rose Hethehincton Bill Goldman Betty Jane Coeer Louis Akehurst Joanne Collins Betty Ann Craig Floyd Evans Anne Kaufman jAFrE Jaqueline Richard Barret John Curtis Kathleen Curtis Joseph Beasley Barbara Garner Helen Grisaffi Robert Ellis, Jr. Robert Gay Myra Fitchette Catherine Enright Vincent Gillikin [ 25 J

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James Freeman Jennye Bell Austin Gerry Dingman Dean Atkinson Harry Adreon Guy Bishop Sam Forman Carol Grimes Louis Friedman Holt Inge Willie Hoffleh S. O. Hurst Stanley Holsweig Lois Moffat Audrey Goldspinner Barbara Rosenberg Dorothy Buck Sylvan Berry La Verne Burlage Ferne Austin Alfred Whitehurst William Roughton William Lawson Walter Carroll John Derieux David Day Eleanor Dupree Allan Bell Ruth Broadway Come Spring, the young men's fancies turned to thoughts of the great out-doors. Track-sters raced around the stadium. Baseball players took to the field, accompanied by the customary rooting and pop drinking. During the Spring, also, the first bowling team at your college was formed, and enjoyed much success. The weaker sex sportsters showed a good season of basketball. In addition to the games which were slated at other schools, they played before the boys' games in the Division gym, or carried on their own massacres. The hockey team shared a great time and a great victory, that one over Williamsburg late in Autumn. You who did not see the game cheered 'em with the High Hat. The Squaws and Braves in 1947 made many another bite the dust. You who were there to watch helped by the cheers and praise. It was a swell time! [ 24 ]

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Gerald Gedmim Graham Horton Henderson Beale William Barr Harold Bennett Edward Brown Frank Kelly Winston Rose Charles Britt Jamcs Sterling Eldon Rucker Bentley Weinstein Joseph Joyner Coleman Gordon Harry Paul William Metler Richard Jones Paul Gunn Beverly Lawler William Hebret Shirley Winn Audrey Pyle Robert Scott Jane Smith J. W. Nixon. Jr. Marilyn Swersky Daniel Makinson Joe Hecht James English Frank Horksen But little could match the Christmas season, when each club blared Yuletide greetings with dance after dance. They were held in halls throughout the city. And the Imps proved that a great spot for a Christmas ball was right in the Division gym. The decorations, the music, and the friends all reflected and echoed the gay spirit you yourself felt, and still remember. The first costume ball, given by Di Gamma on Sadie Hawkin's Day, the Tri Kappa March of Dimes Dance, and the Spring dances were brilliant. All term you tripped the light fantastic, donned in gov n or rags. Not the least of the success was the Ajxiche Dance given in the school gym by the Publications Committee. Voyager and High Hat mapped and planned, advertised, and then warned you and urged you to come. You found your instructors acting as waiters; you gazed at the appropriate illustrations; you danced around the cabaret-style set-up. Not only at the Apache Dance, but at each dance you couldn't help but find the time of your life. [ 26 ]