Salisbury University - Evergreen Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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THE HOME CORNER —Left to right: Betty Richards, Betty Johnson, Miss Isabella Watters, Helen Cheezum, Ruth Cropper, Betty Brinsfield, Janice Hearne.

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Home Association There’s a hot time in the old dorm every night when the 9:30 bell rings summoning all the Home Association members for a halt-hour chat in the home corner! Several seem to be expecting phone calls from Butcher’s and Collier’s, and some receive interesting long distance calls—topics for conversation by all. Endless credit goes to Ruth Cropper, our president; Betty Brinsfield, vice- president; and Betty Richards, secretary- treasurer. Home Association meetings are usually held at 9:30, and everyone seems to at¬ tend in housecoats and curlers! Topics discussed are: keeping the dorm quiet from 7:00 until 9:30, unnecessary walking in the halls during this time, and visits to other girls’ rooms for little or no reason; but complaints are really few and good times are many—especially when some¬ one finds an unwelcomed mouse boarding in her waste paper basket, or “one certain girl” walks in her sleep! The real function of the Home Associa¬ tion is to make life more pleasant for all concerned. It does those so-called “little things” that help to make one’s life fuller. Thoughtfulness seems to be the motto. It is shown by the many flowers and cards that are sent. After a night of study and a floor-show by “Hut” and “Birdie” in the home cor¬ ner at 9:30, the lights are lowered and weary heads fall upon pillow, no doubt thinking of tomorrow and what mischief can be raised the next night. Yes the Home Association can well be named the “mother organization”. For the dorm girls it is as one big family where new friends are made and remembered always. 27

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The Home Corner It is here that the dormitory girls con¬ gregate. For what purpose.? Mostly to learn the latest gossip, listen to the radio, write letters (there is always a special fellow, one who is first in the heart, always on the mind, and forever in the dreams) or to hear a little jazz or dream music, according to the general mood. This is the scene of laughter, serious¬ ness, joy, and gloom. We all agree that the “home corner” is characteristic of its name. LAZY LAWRENCE - Dedicated to Dr. Cariithers, who never saw “Lazy Lawrence”. When I was a young-un on the farm, we worked! You boys today have an easy life, and you girls, too! We didn’t close the school because it was zero. We didn’t sit in the shade, when there were things to do. . . . Ever hear of dancing Lazy Lawrence.? No, I’ll bet. We didn’t admit we ever saw him, either, in the hay ’Cause the old folk would tease us and we’d be Branded—and this is just what they would say, “Anybody with time to waste lookin’ at heat waves Might as well be sittin’ in the shade snoozin’.” “Let her heat,” we’d say, as we’d compete with our elders.” And the sun would burn, and the perspiration was oozin’. Oh, you young-uns don’t know what an easy time you have! Modern inventions will be the ruination of you If you don’t remember Lazy Lawrence is still about Ready to put you in the shade with nothing to do. . . . —Angela England Smith 29