Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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Christmas vacation, agitation was begun for a Freshman Show — ours to be an inaugural ball with an old-fashioned melerdramer the high spot of the evening. The pink handbills put out before the show advertised a bar, a presi- dent-elect, a barbershop quartet, and twenty beautiful girls dancing the can-can. The melerdramer was to be complete with foiled villain, handsome hero, and pretty heroine, and was entitled He Ain ' t t)one Right By Our Nell. The evening itself went off as advertised with the added attraction of a grand march with costume prizes. With the Freshman Picnic and its treasure hunt (treas- ure: 50c), our schedule of class activities for the year was completed and our freshman year almost finished. Sum- mer vacation was here. :!; : HJ The class of ' 42 came back this fall, upperclassmen themselves to look upon a new freshman class and to feel just a little envious. The sophomore year began well. The class dance was most successful, particularly from a decorative aspect. Thursday, December 14, was the class Christmas party, a dateless affair and extremely informal for which the whole class turned out for a good time. Banquet and speeches in the dining room were followed by skits and charades in the Girls ' Gym, square dances, and carol singing all over the campus. It was another mass-action movement of the class of 1942, where every- body comes, everybody participates, and everybody has a good time. 19

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FRESHMAN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Front row: Satterthwaite, D. Smith, Haines Second row: Sainton, Chapman Back row: Dunn, W. Erdman, E. Smith FIRST SEMESTER OFFICERS Junior: Rakestraw, Heihnan, Miller, Kirn Sophomore: Logan, Cope, Ramsey, Wolfe Senior: Eberle, Barbour, Knapp, Coffman 21