Scripps College - La Semeuse Yearbook (Claremont, CA)

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ing Sophomores. Interested members of the student body other than Seniors could be seen looking on wistfillly as the dance proceeded. THE DESERT VERY year the desert calls and every year Scripps answers. There is a wild scramble for sleeping bags and blue jeans, and a general exodus for sage brush and camp fire. The First trip of the year, given exclusively for upper classmen and faculty, usually winds its way over the Cajon Pass to Visitor- ville, and thence through Barstow to the famous Barstow Sin- cline. Yvhen the First car gets stuck in the sand it is lunch time. Then comes the trek up the dry river bed to the familiar camp site, and preparations are made for a night under the stars. After steaks, fiied in onions by the doughty Chester, a big bonHre is built and the group gathers around to toast marsh- mallows and sing. With the coming of cold desert winds the gathering breaks up to spend a night of more or less comHJrt- able sleep, deep in heavy blankets and not a little sand. Freshmen are introduced to the charms of starlit nights and sunburned days under Miss Atsatt's supervision. Thousand Palms, Quail Springs and Wliite Creek see bands of dusty Scrippsites. Many a horn-toad has taken a fearful journey in a cookie box, only to land in the Manana Court, as a Freshman uprojecftwg and many a desert bug has found himself hastily i'colle6ted into a pocket handkerchief: There is an irresistible charm about clearing out for a week- end, and once a rumor is abroad that Miss Atsatt is contemplat- ing another expedition, there is an eager group at her heels for whom sunburnt noses and tarantulas hold no fears. Headed by Miss Atsatt, they form that illustrious band of explorers who 42

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DANCES HE dances this year were condudted on a scale designed to save a certain amount of money Hom needless decora- tions, which sum might be turned over to the fiind for unemployed. But they were no less successhll for the decrease in crepe paper and colored lights. The social year of dances opened as is customary, with the dance given by the Iunior class for their Freshmen sisters. This informal is perhaps the most exciting one of the year, especially for the Freshmen. It was followed by a student body informal held on the Olive Court, the most romantic place for a dance which the campus provides. The Sophomore-Senior formal, held in Ellen Browning was a distincft success, in spite of the date being Friday, the thir- teenth of November. Colored lights and tall flowers were effec- tive as decorations. The Sophomore and Iunior classes combined this year and had one dance instead of two class dances, that the money thus saved might be added to the relief Hlfld. This event took place on February sixth. Of course the big dances of the year, the Christmas Garmal just befbre Christmas vacation, and the Spring formal, held this year just before Spring vacation, are looked forward to for weeks before they occur, and talked of for weeks afterwards. Excellent music made both of them most pleasant. The tea dance is unique, and occurring on May fourteenth, helped the Seniors to a little needed relaxation just before the fatal bac- calaureate hour. The grand Hnale Rat the Seniors was the Senior Ball held the week before graduation. This is the dance of the year which lasts until the mysterious hour of two in the morning, and breakfast is served to the exhausted merry-makers by the oblig- 41

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mysteriously disappear for a week-end, only to return on Sun- day night, wearier, dustier and more enthusiastic than ever. BEACH DAY - HIS year instead of Snow Day, freak weather permitted us an unfortgettable Beach Day. Red busses Hlled with a pajama-clad student body chugged their way to La- guna Beach. All day we swam, burned, ate hamburgers, Played base ball, built sandpiles and enjoyed ourselves. Wlieii the sun finally set and the busses Hlled again and started their homeward journey therexwas a unanimous vote that Beach Day might come to be anotherscripps tradition for aHer all, it's im- possible to get a tan in a snow drift and there is something lazy and delightful about a day on the beach that the snow-covered mountains Eiil to provide. ' 43