Pomona College - Metate Yearbook (Claremont, CA)

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THEY GET IN STEP EARLY No matter why or from where they come, once they get here freshmen find orientation pretty simple. Despite what fathers and older brothers have told them, they still arrive in Claremont bewildered and green. But within a few days the rest of the college will pick up where it left off the spring before and go blithely on. leaving the frosh behind if it were not for Pomona's answer to this problem: a retreat in the mountains with Ghosts and faculty. who tell the eager thoughtful and reverent newcomers fexamine faces in these picturesl just what is expected of them, and how best to take hold. The retreat. then, is a Pomona institution designed to get new Sagehens off on the right foot. The Ghosts sponsor the retreat. which is held over night in San Dimas canyon. and give the freshmen a tie-in with the upperclass leaders from the start. The Ghosts warn their Ghostees about the things that are expected of them. like dink-wearing, follow through by calling in rebels during the first few weeks, to be sure none miss hitting their stride. Before turning in after an afternoon of sessions and sports, the men hear words of advice from Dean Nicholl. Eugene Nixon and advisor Fuzz Merritt. The next morning fopposite pagel, Sunday. they at- tend services. hear from Dean Gibson and President Edmunds. This year, the newly-elected president, E. Wilson Lyon, introduced himself as a fellow freshman.

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OME FROM EVERYWHERE OR ALL SORTS OF REASONS Once. before they even enrolled in Pomona College, freshmen were asked to write a letter, stating briefly their reasons for wanting to come here. They probably consulted a catalogue, tried to remember what people had told them about the place, and maybe they even attempted to think up something original. Anyway, most of them ended by saying approximately the same things, as we found when we checked with people whose iob it is to read the letters, and whom we asked to give us a line on why people said they came here. First of all, they chose Pomona because they wanted a small college, with opportunities, because of small classes, to get something more than impersonal lectures out of their pro- fessors. On a small campus they would not be little fishes in a big pond, but could very well master the whole place. The beauty of the campus was not a small fac- tor in their choice, and all of them who had visited Pomona before were enthusias- tic about their first impressions. Many of them had received recommendations from friends or teachers or relatives who were alumni, and whose loyalty inspired their decisions. The lecture and artist course series, the highly-successful placement bureau, the honors course system, the many extra-curricular activities-all of these things, on such a scale as they were that students could take them all in, and so round out their personalities better than in a larger, more complex, more impersonal school-all of these things affected their decision to come here. Registrar Howard Pattee, succeeded next year by assistant dean of students I. Edward Sanders, is responsible for lining up prospective Pomonans. Out of his office go piles of material telling what Pomona is all about, and he visits high schools to talk personally with graduating seniors. Other influences are publicity that gets into such papers as the Los Angeles Examiner and New York Times, and the interest aroused by the glee clubs as they tour, and suppos- edly, by exchange copies of METATE. 3 .-,mwe,....rJmf.-- .-..,.-...--..-v ,. ,...,,e

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