Susquehanna University - Lanthorn Yearbook (Selinsgrove, PA)

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VELMA SHOOK BETTY SMITH SARA LEE SMITH ELEANOR STEELE MARIE STOUT FLORENCE STROUSE GAYNELLE WAGONER VIRGINIA WALKER GLORIA WALMLR DEXTER WEIKEL JEAN WENTZEL HARRY WELLIVER MARY ELLEN WOOD 27

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Junior Class OFFICERS President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Joseph Taylor Lawrence Weller Elise Thompson Helen Eby Our freshman year began in 1943, and we marched through it to the cadence of the Army-Hup 2, 3, 4 with very few in our ranks ever missing a step. The presence of the cadets on campus made Hazing Day even more frightening to live through and funnier to look back on. The boys in our class did not suffer any hazing that year but the sophomore girls sought and gained prestige by thoroughly deflating our ego and completely shattering the soldiers illusions of young womanhood. The sidewalks on campus were shining and clean from the constant bowing and scraping of our stockinged heads in obeisance to the al- mighty sophomores. None of the girls of the Class of ' 47 will forget the lawn party given us by Presi- dent Smith and the numerous other gay times we h id that year like the Hallowe ' en and Thanksgiving Dances, the Soph Hop and Pledge Dance, to name a few. The loss of our class president, Danny Reitz, and other boys at midyear was the only shadow to darken an otherwise wonderful year. When we returned to S. U. as sophomores the world was ours. Upperclassmen. Every one of us was proud and happy to step into the footsteps left behind by our able predecessors. There was an enormous frosh group to initiate into S. U. traditions but Hazing Day was a success as far as we on the giving end were concerned. The mention of our Soph Tribunal was enough to cause the bravest frosh to shudder and served to remind all that we had reached the second of the four very important milestones in our lives. Because of wartime restrictions we did not have the annual Soph Hop. For the first time Hassing- er was open to women and the cadets were a thing of the past. Near the conclusion of our second year of college, VE Day arrived and made 1944 a year we were certain to remember always. The same week we witnessed our first May Day celebration at S. U., and were indelibly impressed with the beauty and gaiety it imparted. Juniors. A long dream of and envied status at last is ours. Peace, too, has encompassed the world and our ranks are filling with returned servicemen who are wholeheartedly invited to be members of our class. Many students were lost from our folds due to graduation from two year courses but two new dorms were opened: Selinsgrove Hall for men; the Cottage on Faculty Row which claimed many juniors as residents. As yet, we of the Class of ' 47 have not experienced the normal social life offered by colleges in peacetime. We fervently hope that the activities we have heard, read, and dreamed of will be reality in our senior year. We are looking forward eagerly to cheering S. U. to victory in a football game on Home- coming Day, seeing the men ' s dormitories filled to capacity, and being a graduating class S. U. will miss as we will miss her. We hope that our Junior Prom on May Day night will prove to be a golden memory not just to us juniors but to all who attend. ftfll 4 Elise Thompson Helen Eby Joseph Taylor Laurence Weller 29