Park University - Narva Yearbook (Parkville, MO)

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rooms! ... no housemother ever before had to put up with such mischievous roosters! Friendships of long standing are prac¬ tically forgotten in spirited arguments os the presidential election draws near . . . sunflowers spring up all over the campus . . . But you can’t eat sun¬ flowers, argue the Democrats. Then everyone fixes up real prettily and smiles at the little birdie for Hodges in the Lowell club hall because we all want to be able to show our grandchildren our pictures in the Narva . . . anxious mobs storm the Narva office as proofs are returned . . . Oh, do I really look that awful? Why hasn’t someone told me?” Parchies and Callios have a little brother-sister spat over the Hall owe en party . . . ”If we can’t come to your party, you can’t come to ours!”. . . Parchies give a grand party anyway and perform an operation on Jack Swinney, the man with a most remarkable anatomy, while the sister Callios have a square dance and feast at their Ten” party . . . OAC occupies several club halls with its colorful celebration . . . games, program, jollity and Art Smith . . . Mary Appel joins the Hallowe’en guards to share an apple pie with Johnny Ladd and help keep the witches and goblins away from the print shop. Skating in the gym still a good, dependable sport . . . Y.M. and Y.W. tumble and tumble again, and decide Sonja Henie has it on them, a fter all. Little square white envelopes . . . Copley polishes its floors and puts pow¬ der-puffs on the dressers in first floor rooms . . . formats, flowers . . . dignity . . . girls welcome to Copley, but no wandering! . . . stay on first floor! . . . Swannie as master of ceremonies, orchestra, comedy and a banquet that robs Thanksgiving of all its glory. Parchies and Callios devour scorched spaghetti and meat balls with the great¬ est of relish and genuine smiles in an informal get-together in the club hall . . . even scorched spaghetti tastes good when there’s real butter with the bread. Aspiring athletes take to scanty attire and dash around the campus and over the hills . . . just training for cross¬ country . . . the day of the big race finds Art Smith, the invincible, stag¬ gering into first place once again. The spirit of cheer, goodwill and saintliness pervades the atmosphere as Christmas holidays draw near . . . carols and snow . . . Christmas trees and poin- settias adorn the chapel as the choir sings the Messiah . . . parties and pep¬ permint candy . . . the anticipation of home and leisure . . . fifteen more days, fourteen, thirteen and Christmas holi¬ days are here and gone all too soon . . . with the prospect of semester exams to welcome our return . . . ten novels to read all of a sudden , and Oh, why didn’t I begin to study this before now?”. . . but somehow the ordeal is always survived with not more than two or three cases of nervous break¬ down, and we begin the new semester with the best of resolutions. We go to cha pel twice daily for Pago tO

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THE MARCH OF TIME By Margaret Stansell On through another year Parkites entertain and S EPTEMBER . . . the Park College Family gathers again to find new concrete steps in front of Mackay replacing last year s very picturesque ones, and a new walk around Herr House . . . the summer colony well- fed and thriving, a new pastor and new president-elect . . . and freshmen! . . . the kinds of girls who cause last year’s belles to he upon their toes and Park gallants to take a sudden interest in club rushing . . . the annual reception on the White House lawn . . . the search for ’little brothers” and little sisters ’ . . . names and names and tired feet. Rush week sets in with real feeling and hitter rivalry . . . midnight seren¬ ading, even to an empty dorm, parties, teas, suppers, feeds, open-houses . . . Sign-up Day with a victorious parade in the rain . . . then the upperclassmen as Dr. Jekyll does a rapid change to Mr. Hyde, and . . . poor freshmen! . . . it s initiation . . . queer assortments of war-paint, pigtails and bedroom slip¬ pers for the girls, the regular cry of ’Four o’clock and all is well!’’ to the amusement of classes in Mackay, the traffic whistle outside the Commons each noon, mysterious games of ’’Fol¬ low the Leader” at night . . . but the freshmen can take it, and even come to church the next morning . . . and this still incomparable to the secret are entertained horrors of third floor Copley initiation. Humiliation Night . . . white gar¬ denias for the boys, and only the upper¬ classmen and George Schrader humil¬ iated as the freshmen present an array of talented singers, dancers, pianists and Bill ie Mattox walking o ff with the whole show! . . . Choir try-outs reveal that every other individual on the Copley Party campus is an amateur Caruso or Lily Pons, and a whole new choir is formed . . . More and more good movies come around, with a new system that means we can use all our Student Enterprise tickets to begin with but then have to pay for the rest of the shows. Mrs. Goodson’s pet roosters leave their perch in front of Herr House time and time again to attend chapel or climb roofs and even visit Copley bath- Page 18

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several clays . . . Spiritual Emphasis Week . . . ancl Dr. Jones finds that in all of Iris friendly dormitory gatherings he is greeted with the question ' What do you think of this idea of compulsory chapel? ” . . . Spellh ouncl Parkites cheer Boh Swanson on as he orates not once but three times against the evils and horrors of war and fights his way to second place in the state contest. Faculty members don the customary wigs and gay costumes and become escpiires and ladies of a former century for the entertainment of the seniors at the annual colonial party ... a decidedly more modern atmosphere at the Parchie formal night-club party in the gym, one of the most successful events of the year . . . balloons and Easter eggs ... a mock radio broadcast . . . Bennie Goodman s orchestra . . . Marvin and LaVonne White frighten¬ ing even themselves with their weird drama of Lights Out” . . . that unfor- getable bit of extemporaneous acting as Lois Proctor and Alex Anderson learned more about each other. Waitresses knitting in chapel . . . everyone knitting in chapel . . . knitting needles to be found most anywhere from the Commons to the village, and devoted young men winding yarn on date nights . . . third floor Copley installs a private telephone. Season for recitals . . . piano recitals, organ recitals, voice recitals . . . music and musicians and debuts. Dress-up time again as Herr House entertains . . . purple and gold and an almost real grape-arbor . . . the old gym transformed into a scene of festivity . . . entertainment . . . music. The annual attack of Spring Fever . . . irresistible, and so we succumb . . . gorgeous sunshine once again . . . long walks in the woods . . . and rain . . . the May Fete and a May Queen. Seniors lose weight and more wei ght with the approach of Comprehensives . . . oh, to be carefree freshmen! . . . final exams again, this time with the prospects of a summer ahead . . . packing, partings, goodbyes, and then . . . home . . . Till we meet again! Page 20