Rhodes College - Lynx Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

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. KLVL6! fA8l'L QXJWLJ Ball g the Lynx cagers took a 52-43 beating at the hands ot Memphis State's Tigers in the first ot a two game series for the city collegiate championshipg and the S Club in- itiation teatured an egg rolling con- test CSD. A thick curtain of exam Week gloom tell over the campus Ianuary 27 as social life came to a rapid haltp the library 165 and practice rooms f7l were visited frequently as stu- dents buckled down to burn the midnight oil to cram for exams C8l.

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E 8 . Students returned to the old grind Ianuary 4, but the after-holiday calm was extremely short-lived. Ianuary 5 the devastatingly beautiful freak ice storm struck Memphis, transforming SouthWestern's campus into a true Winter wonderland. Classes con- tinued while the city was Virtually paralized due to ice burdened elec- tric and telephone Wires CID. The student body danced in the gym at the Pan-Hellenic dance Ianu- ary 7 and cheered the ten Lynx love- lies at the Beauty Review on the l3th 125. The three-night Players' Potpourri featured Charles Clifton and Roscoe Field in Box and Cox and Iackie Roland and Woody Mor- riss in Sweethearts C3,4D. The KA's introduced their H1950 Rose , Sarah Loaring-Clark, at their elaborately planned Old South

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X J 9 l lfL6U g . . February began with seventy-five of the Southwestern Singers making a six day concert tour through Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee C25 beginning the 3. THE event of the year for choir members, this delightful trip was highlighted by Pappa and Mama losing their suitcases, Virgil paying us a visit, our l'Tupelo-like concert in Nash- ville, clowns Leslie Thompson and Iohn Murry Springfield, frequent irnpromtu pro- grams, the visit to the graveyard, Bob Reed and his flashbulbs, the dam day, the visit to Paris, and the ability of weary, but happy, singers to go to sleep anywhere-any place. CUC's Chinese scholarship student Ling Hong Lee enrolls at SW All students climbed back in the saddle again the next week as second semester officially got under- way. For three week-ends straight Southwestern was danceminded with the Tri Delta's opening the sec- ond semester formal season February ll with their fast-moving Star and Crescent Ball at the University Club, the Chi Ome-ga's decorated the gym with two thousand gaily-colored paper masks for their elab orate Masque Ball the l8, and the ATO's prevued spring the 25 with their beautiful Herald of Spring Ball in the Panorama Room of the King Cotton. H. . . join- me c!L0ir an :See me 501f1,If!L.!v