Salisbury University - Evergreen Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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Wooten Graybeal Doyle Howard vailed for a few days as old friends and classmates were reunited, but formulated for “rat week,” and these plans were joyfully carried out to a very satisfactory comple¬ tion. As sophomores, these young men and women found the courses to be a little harder, and much to their chagrin, they ran across such terms as “open book test,” “climatic studies,” and various other terms Lynch Willis Johnson Richard associated with individual pro¬ fessors of the college. The projects indicated by these terms were successfully completed, however, for these sophomores had learned many valuable study habits and techniques in their freshman year. This sophomore year seemed to end much more quickly than did the freshman, and as they departed for Sherwood Carey Truitt

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Potter Harrison Peed Butler to serious work, and they gave a good account of themselves. The time passed quickly, and soon the first, semester was history. Marks came out, and although there were many satisfied smiles, there were .just as many dejected and disconso¬ late faces; and there was a notable increase in library attendance as the second semester began. They had discovered that college did not consist merely of big dances, ball Sasajima Bridges Everett Fry games, and good times. The end of the year approached, and more midnight oil was burned. Then came the tension of exam week, followed by the relaxing reality almost immediately plans were that the first year was all over, and that they were now sophomores. September of 1950 rolled around, and back to S. T. C. came last year’s freshmen, but this time as vengeful sophomores. A holiday spirit pre-

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I Bartholomee Sawyer Danielson their homes, they said goodbye, per¬ haps for the last time, to some of those friends they had lived and studied with for the last two years, for many students of the Junior College section would not be re¬ turning. It was a smaller group that re¬ turned for this, their junior year, and a more serious group. They had selected teaching as their pro¬ fession, and they turned with a will to learn as much as possible. There were still plenty of good times, of course, but now these young men and women realized, perhaps for the first time, the responsibility that rests on the shoulders of the teachers of the children of this, the greatest country in the world, and they resolved to take that responsi¬ bility, and to fulfill it. to the best of their ability. Barton Strohsacker Eiseman Johnson