Shimer College - Acropolis Yearbook (Mount Carroll, IL)

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You Had Here There are many things about Shimer we shall never forget . . . The lovely green trees keeping their constant vigil over the campus, the grape arbor always reminding us Mrs. Shimer . . . Ivyclad Dearborn, sending forth melodies . . . Venerable Hathaway and its grillg bustling Bennett Hall at the edge of the golf course . . . Stately Science Hall and the art building, the gym, scene of teamwork . . . Nlerry McKee with its gracious dining roomg the infirmary 'VVest Hall annex, home of the vital post-office and cool green West Hall Lounge, social center at Shimer The lofty library and its symbolic steps and Doric columns And shining Metcalf tower thrusting upward to the sky . . . This is Shimer, our college, our home. of w a X Af IS fi ft mi

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T Fall: femon of Melloiwneff Remember coming through the gate and seeing the Shimer campus in its autumnal array. The first week was filled with the excitement of greeting old friends and establishing new and lasting friendships . . . Remember meeting the faculty in the hospitable atmosphere of Sawyer House . . . The Y.VV.C.A. Tea . . . The Y'Vho's VVho party '... The picnic and stunt night with our faculty advisers. Remember the long hours ofpreparation and the united eH'orts which culminated in the exciting hockey game . . . the Parentis Day program The successful Junior prom with its HStairway to 77 the Starsl' . . . the eagerly awaited '4Romeo and Juliet . Remember Thanksgiving Vacation and the sudden awareness of our maturing ideas and a new sense of adult responsibilities. We saw new aspects in Mother and Dad and in our friends at home. Fall at Shimer was the gateway to new ideas and new experience. :ak 5 , e