Radford University - Beehive Yearbook (Radford, VA)

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The small memories are the fillers which solidify our remembrance of college places and events: the morning nod that becomes a habit, the traditional subjects for debate, local color, the sight of a hand thrusting a letter in your box, Joan of Arc supervising the painters and wringing her hands. They are the catalysts that work the wonder of memory. The workmen fell a tree. You take a painful interest in the demise of an old friend. Umbrellas, cluttering the halls after a rain, pierce the gloom of overcast skies and darkened halls with their ribs and brilliant colors. The gauzy look of newly scuffed wax on tiles,... painters hanging outside your window in the early-morning fog with their feet swaying bc-hind the panes and their talk of aches and scaffolding drifting in to you are all as calendared in your mind as the too many events offered to you by the main bulletin board. They are the small memories.

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Sharing events with the men of Tech has been a time-honored custom. These girls are all dressed up to help Tech celebrate the McCormick Festival. The traditional lore of any college is a precious clement in the shaping of its reputation, its respect for the past, and for the principles upon which its founders and its directors, in every capacity, established it. Radford has an especially colorful traditional heritage. Two names which every Radford alumnae will immediately recognize are those of Pocahontas and of Mary Draper Ingles. The Ingles-Pokie Literary Society debates were the great campus event for years. A less familiar tradition is that of the “Hollyhock Trail.” From seeds gathered from the hollyhocks planted in front of the stone wall of the older part of campus, a trail of hollyhocks was to be planted from each girl’s home to her academic home. A yearly spring event commemorated this tradition and the seeds of the hollyhocks were prized acquisitions. The Avcnt Tennis Club, the first athletic organization on the campus, began a tradition of respect for the place which athletics should occupy in our lives. Such traditions as the Senior Breakfast Sneak Day, the Capping Service, and Move-up Day were celebrated in various ways throughout the history of the college and testify to the spirit and hopes which we and our alumnae want to preserve as the Radford tradition. 20