Salisbury University - Evergreen Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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am an 9 eso luilom Planning at Floyd’s THE LAST WEEK of January — a new year and a new semester. “This time Em really going to study.” Well-meant resolu¬ tion, it is quiekly made and quiekly broken when winter aetivities get into full sway. “Let’s run over to Floyd’s for a eoke. It isn’t time for elass yet.” Or assembly, or dinner, or the danee — any are equally good exeuses. Meanwhile, everything seemed to aequire new vigor and sparkle. Basketball games were fast and furious; danees were sweet and swingable; and assemblies beeame more en¬ joyed and better attended. Our true southern hospitality aroused itself when the Civilian Morale Committee made possible basketball games between S. T. C. and nearby Army eamps. Later, informal daneing and refreshments were enjoyed by hosts and guests alike. Then about the first of February the ealm and dignified seniors began to get “hot under the eollar” or tried to steady shaking hands and knees as the first eounty superintendent eame to “look us over.” Soon eontraets were sent to a few lueky people; more followed. Juniors gazed in awe at the almost full- fledged teaeher with a Job! Oblivious to all these minor eruptions, elasses eontimied; the speeeh elass tried its hand at giving plays; zoology was relin¬ quished in favor of botany; and the prineiples of Ameriean polit ies and eeonomies were hammered into drowsy minds. Seeond semester was like all the others that have preeeded it for years — with a new ele¬ ment. This year it was not the seniors alone who hung on to eaeh dav, trying to streteh it out. All of us are living todav as it eomes, yet looking forward to the future — prepared for whatever it may bring. . 20 .

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0)4 0)4re Prepare WE HOPE ONK OF ri IF greatest of the “neeessary (?) evils” in tlie edueational system is that regii- larlv oeeurring inter al eommonlv known as FXAM WFFK. Books are frantieallv pulled from erowded library staeks, nntidv bins, or dormitory desks, as ex eryone deeides it’s high time he found out what “Middle- town” is really about, or what snlfiirie aeid does to iron, or how Plato inflneneed almost anything. Books, xxith or without aeeom- panying student, ean be found anywher e! Cramming (distasteful word, isn’t it?) reaehes a fever piteh, and then it’s all over but the praying. “Miss Ruth,” knowing well the eondition of onr weakened minds and bodies, was on hand every afternoon with tea and eookies, or tiny, tasty sandwiehes to bolster our morale “for the duration.” As the xxeek dragged by, seniors eompleted their student teaehing and looked forward to the da ' when their elass w’ould onee more be reunited. Juniors, having learned all there was to know about Afriea, India, and China in geography elass, awaited with mingled emotions of fear and hope in beginning their praetiee-teaehing. But this was far from the minds of the freshmen and sophomores who were learning “Speak the speeeh, I pray you,” or all four stanzas of “’Fhe Star-span¬ gled Banner.” But some xell-known law definitely states that all things must finally eome to an end — so with examinations; and the folloxx ' ing week-end was spent in rather premature eel- ebration or reeuperation — or both, as the semester beeame past history. One week when everyone GETS BUSY . 19 .

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format OfctivLlies NO Ol’IIlilR AC ' I IX i rV occupies as im¬ portant a place on tlic social calendar as do formal dances, for each class and almost every organization sponsored some kind of party for its members. Often the gymnasinm was dressed in ‘drills and furbelows” till it seemed ready to burst with sheer pride and self-eoneeit. Remember the sop homore danee? V for Vie- tory, flags and streamers for three great men: Washington, Lineoln, and Franklin Roose- elt. And Lew Startt’s orehestra — another S. T. C. habit — at its best. ' The Sophanes Players Costume Ball, in the light of national eonserxation, boasted of deeorations without the use of paper. But ingenuity and hard work ereated an artistie setting for the figures in swirling satin or slashing tafTeta and their dark-snited eseorts. And remember who eame? Juliet and a eolonial lady, the Spirit of Liberty and her right-hand man, LJnele Sam, phis the eos- tnmes of India, Holland, Mexieo, and South Ameriea, and nniforms of the United States Army. May the eighth saw the night of the Junior Prom — one of the most important danees of the year, if you want to view it sentimentally. And, of eonrse, the Senior Ball — the Grand Mareh, the last waltz, the midnight supper. Eaeh danee was better than the last, and it was only a beginning for the one to eome — till finally they were all o ' er, and all were an aeknowledged sneeess. Enterta i n m ent Music, Social Graces, and Celebrities . 21 .