Radford University - Beehive Yearbook (Radford, VA)

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From the beginning of her history, the Radford lady has shown an interest in the arts and in self expression, by creating and acting in her own plays, entertaining through dance festivals, remembering the classics—even to togas, she has practiced individuality and self discipline. Our highland campus suffers from a spring ailment symp-tomized bv mournful wailing and a Scottish appearance. The carriers are called the Highlanders. They have spread this ailment to willing sufferers from Radford to New York by remarkable means—an unusual combination of the Macy’s Parade and television. 12

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A true friend will call you just at that point when one more exception to the rule will ruin your disposition. The ring of the hall phone is many things to every girl. To the girls nearest the phone it is a curse. To the girl getting a surprise call from her fella it is a miracle. To the girl recuperating from homesickness it brings a relapse. To the girl who hears everyone else get her call, and gets none herself, it is depressing. Spanning the gap between the classroom and the Cove there is a drawbridge. It’s always rising at t h e strangest moments. It catches everybody — students, professors, kibitzers.

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Tl.e fine arts opporturHK pression. A day spent in n! °s °ffer«vt „ j. , 1 ,n the fip]{i ' -°n our campus cover all media of ox- ,r ing to capture a landscape’s rhythms in oils, the positive feeling of pottery you yourself made, the first fully successful vocal interpretation of a difficult piece—all of these have been remembered with pleasure by Radford girls. “The Miracle Worker, a miracle of fine acting and sensitive production, began our fiftieth year of student-acted drama. It’s playbill entered tliecollection of playbills pinned to the drama office’s bulletin board. Among these plays of all types, the dramatic readings, and the original drama of the past years, it testified to the existence of fine drama on the Radford stage. Self expression is the channel through which our worth pours out to our fellowman It is the other hall of learning, a Radford ideal.