Penn State University - La Vie Yearbook (University Park, PA)

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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF '47 As members 01' the Class of 1947 ascend the platform to reeeive their degrees, they look lmek upon the years since they entered Penn State as freshmen. Now, as they complete one more chapter in their lives and go en lo ehesen profes- sions, l'ew leave without a treasure of reminimzenees 0f iimlergrzuluute days. Looking into that past, graduating students will remember the first day they set foot upen the eum- pus. For no matter which year students enrolled at the College, they later re 'itll their first freshman mass meeting, when they were introduced to the President, learned the. songs and cheers of Penn State and were instructed in freshman customs and the penalties for failure to curry them out. Thus began the excitement of Freshman Week. Nor will the graduates easily forget that jeyl'ul day when l'reslnnun eustoms were ever and they netuully heezmie :1 part of Penn State. They ex- perienced a sensation that would remain forever at part of them, a hrund new feeling, a kind of eum- fertahle feeling engendered by the thought that they were l'uIl-lledged college men and women. Prexy addresses grml nut t-s Graduating seniors will reeull the passage of the months, when as upper and lower elnssnien, they traveled the same paths to classes, Hilllthlt'll hours, sport events, dances, shows, tlehutes, exams moved happily through the colorful microcosm that is Penn State, until they reached the gnarl Wltit'll at one time looked so far nwuy. and new is ziehievetl with mixed emotions. It was at timeless sort 0i- existentmher so it seeinetle-hut the tlilyS and months slipped past and suddenly nnether period hzul ended. Graduating seniors will remember much more than the mere l'uhrie of daily existence. Certainly, within their reeelleetien there will always remain .t'.:lai,'f e. , . ' . . . . e Z'RL ' the striking heuuty el Penn btntek enmpus and Rushing tn an eight tfelmzk 3O