Salem College - Sights and Insights Yearbook (Winston-Salem, NC)

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MISS LEHMAN

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Senior History . VSS history must needs be something like the composite photography of some years ago, in which the features of a whole class of graduates were combined into one picture to represent that of a girl who looked like all of them ami yet like no one of them especially. This picture must also lie painted with the sad ami joyful experiences of four long school years. Four is the number for most of us, but for some few this number must needs increase to eight. Still within those eight years we find the memories of early childhood concerned, anil in this history 1 may take time only for the mere mention of them. When the Freshman Class was enrolled in the year 1900, the names .if some fifty-odd appeared. When we were termed • ' green young Freshmen (even liv Bishop Rondthaler). or that noisy, undisciplined class (by our teacher, Miss Sallie Shaffner), we were all fifty guilty. Still no matter what the faculty termed us, it was what they did for us that had real weight upon our minds. We organized early in the term, and there seemed to be revealed already that few things were to be agreed upon unanimously by this class so full of strong «irls, whose minds naturally did not run in the same channels. One morning soon after the organization Bishop Rondthaler greeted two Freshmen with verdant countenances at his door, who requested him for a class motto. He welcomed us kindly and gave us Pi Beta Phi ( B f ) which did not mean green, but meant Faithful, firm and friendly ; that which .we should strive to be. This motto, with our flower, the violet, and our colors, purple and while, meaning royalty and purity, were emblems worthy of the noblest body of followers. During the whole nine months of our Freshman year, although we im- proved somewhat, we never quite outgrew all the peculiar and rather uncompli- mentary adjectives which were attributed to our class. But patience was a virtue with our teachers, and finally we reached the Sophomore Class. As Sophomores we were styled by much milder terms, such as bold, bad Sophomores. But we consoled ourselves that our predecessors bore this title before us. Still our wisdom increased, and in our now long and creditable vocabularies the word seriousness could be seen, written in earnest letters. Happily not only in our vocabularies did this word appear, but even some of the faculty recognized seriousness in our work. Our Sophomore year also