Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women - Wise Acres Yearbook (Ambler, PA)

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Graduation June 20, 1957, will long be remembered by seniors and freshmen alike. The freshmen will remember the gentle manner in which the seniors awakened them shortly before dawn; the seniors will never forget trying to hold back tears as the strains of Auld Lang Syne drifted into the early morning air above the bonfire in the riding ring. Nor will the seniors forget the wonderful senior breakfast at which the freshmen entertained them with songs, drama, and delicious food. When 2:30 arrived, it hardly seemed possible to the cap and gown clad seniors marching slowly through the perennial gardens to the strains of Pomp and Circumstance that this was really graduation. After the invocation by Rev. Howard O. Bailey and a few encouraging words by the president of the Board of Trustees, Mrs. Franklin S. Edmonds, an inspiring commencement address was presented by John M. Fogg, Jr., Director of the Morris Arboretum and Professor of Botany at the University of Pennsylvania. After the presentation of diplomas by Mr. French, few dry eyes could be found among the graduates as the freshmen sang Where’er You Walk and You’ll Never Walk Alone. Following this, Dean Fisher read the names of the girls who were on the Dean’s List for the year. She then announced the recipients of the various awards and honors. Monica Moran was the proud freshman to receive the scholarship for the highest academic standing in her class. The Emma Blakiston Award for the highest academic standing for the two year course was won by Molly Jackson. Lynn Perry won the Margaret Day award for her excellent term paper. Lastly, the honor of receiving the Louise Bush-Brown Citizenship award went to Jill Mehlin. After singing America and receiving benediction, the graduating seniors marched back through the gardens to the terrace where sad farewells to friends and faculty members meant the end of two wonderful years at the School of Horticulture. 36

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PET PEEVE SAVING GRACE AMBITION WHAT IF 18” bass Perseverance To have a cottage and a Chris Craft All the peanut butter in the world went bad People who tease her snake Helpfulness To be the first woman driver at Indianapolis The speed limit were enforced Attractive nurses Congeniality To make $10,000 and get married The sun stopped shining People who leave things in her room Dependability None Harold had to stay in the army for 10 years The Pepsi machine Sociability To go to Wyoming There were no volume knob on a radio Harry Entertaining ability To win the Hunter Championship at Harrisburg She hadn't caught an 18” bass Gooey eggs Good nature To travel between her world wide stables She had to think fast Empty mailboxes Interest in people To have a dairy and dairy bar They stopped making chewing gum Noisy people Intelligence To get to Kansas Her hair were straight Slow people Good conversationalist To own a nursery and a Norseman There were no water Philadephus Sense of humor To own a nursery (trees) They stopped making Oldsmobiles Betsy's splintery floor Academic inquisitiveness To work at Rutgers Experiment Station There weren't county agents The mouse in Molly's wall Sweetness To get married Dick became a psychiatrist Curfews Beauty To be dean of a boys' college Fraternities were abolished Cacci's snake, Yul Brynner Nearness To run a bachelors' apartment The soles of her shoes wore out Well-done food Kindness To stay on Patti There were no trailers People who Bun-bury other people Sincerity To have an Angus herd and 10 hired men She didn't have dimples Gas costing more than 24. % Sympathy To get a horsey job She did find a forest ranger 35

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