Rollins College - Tomokan Yearbook (Winter Park, FL)

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DR. RICHARD E. BURTON

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1. Li A tlie 1938 C T O M O K A N DR. RICHARD E. BURTON ESTEEMED AND LOVED BY ROLLINS STUDENTS AND FACULTY ALIKE NOT ONLY FOR HIS BROAD, TOLERANT CULTURE, ZEST FOR LIVING, AND LOVABLE CHARACTER, BUT ALSO FOR HIS EXCELLENCE AS A TEACHER AND SINCERITY AS A FRIEND.

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. . Dean Anderson, President Holt, Georse Waddell, Prof. Waite. THE FIRST DAY The train belches in . . . grinding to a stop . . . regurgitating students, new and old . . . the little station jammed with people . . . shining faces . . . and a few disappointed ones . . . freshmen scurry- ing about . . . afraid of being noticed . . . even more afraid of not being noticed . . . trunks and suit- cases being piled into cars and trucks . . . the drive up Orange Avenue . . . past the Baby Grand . . . past the Chamber of Commerce . . . moss hanging in tattered shreds from groping trees that arch the streets . . . the impression of going through a tunnel. . . then the baseball field . . . the girls ' dorms, blush- ing and huddled together intimately . . . past the chapel tower, silhouetted against a frieze of clouds. Then to that spree-ringed circus, Chase Hall ... or to Cloverleaf . . . where nobody ' s business is everybody ' s business . . . where privacy is a lost illusion . . . and a rural party line is, in comparison, like a deaf and dumb convention. The Walk of Fame . . . Jupiter, Emerson, Rochambeau . . . peeking up through brown leaves . . . always surrounded by tourists who see more in them than just a path bordered with engraved stones. People strewn like gaily colored petals on the horse-shoe at noon . . . sprawled, comfortable, con- versational groups . . . the campus freckled with freshmen . . . clutching their R books and button- ing without enthusiasm . . . girls with flowers in their hair . . . knowing everyone ' s nick name . . . last names dying of solitary confinement in the minds of their owners . . . The overdressed statues of the Cat and the Fox . . . symbols of the sly and the smooth . . . hazing at Rec Hall . . . singing the Alma Mater . . . learning school yells . . . and the high unleashed laugh- ter of Scanlon ... a mist of gnats swirling in the air. The first day of classes . . . when you discover that those Leaders in Learning that the Rollins Plan features, are really profs . . . and quite nice people in spite of it . . . finding that examinations and finals have also been banned by this plan . . . though later, they occasionally rear their ugly - 8 -