Sweet Briar College - Briar Patch Yearbook (Sweet Briar, VA)

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MARTHA PLAISTED, A. B. INSTBUCTOB IN ENGLISH HELEN COLLINS ROLLINS [NBTBUCTOB IN MUSIC CAROLINE HILL CRAWFORD, B. M. INSTIil I I ' DIl IN VOCAL MUSIC EUGENIE M. MORENUS, A. I:.. A. M. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS CAROLINE NOBLE SHAW. A. I ' ... B. S. INSTRUCTOR IN DOMESTIC SCIENCE MILDRED SELFRIDGE, A. I!. INSTBUCTOB IN FBENC1I WILLIAM BLAND DEW TBEASUREK AND BUSINESS MANAGES FANNIE CARROLL SUPEBINTENDENT OF THE HOUSEKEEPING DEPARTMENT

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To the Thirty-Six YOU students who saw the lights of Sweel Briar blaze for the ii the evening of September 27, L906; you who have gone way; you who have known the hardships which besel the l» great things; to you, thirty-six, belongs the name of pioneers. F perseverance, your energy, and your love, you have begun the plan i we are now building and upon which future generations will contini None I ' ni vim may know whal it means for thirty-six i irls, in in the ways of college life, to be gathered together in new buildings because of their very newness, with an unfamiliar faculty to begi their own careers but that of a greal college as well — for ours will college some day. Vmi hail mi traditions, no organizations, no laws — nothing upon build. Yet, ere a month had passed, ymi had assembled together to yourselves into the Student Government Association, ami to draw up purtant document— our Constitution. Thanks to you, thirty-six, the uf Sweel Briar have always had the privilege id ' governing themselves lint your work was not ended with this organization, for others needed. Accordingly, the Athletic Association, the Dramatic ( ' In Young Women ' s Christian Association were organized by you. .Mai hour did ymi spend pondering over petitions, laws, and by-laws, ai warm discussion took place in those small mass-meetings that year. lint, dear sindeiiis, though your lot was a hard one, though diligently, yours was nut a life void of all pleasure. Can ymi forgel which your Choir and Glee Club received from all who came to Sw Can you overlook the fact that mi May Day ymi crowned your queen ; around the May-pole to the little song, Gaily now we twine the 3 Can you forget the dances of that year? Yes, dear students, th consider these pleasures typical of the true finishing school, we th them, we thank ymi that we can combine in our college life academic the social pleasures, which the so-called finhhiiuj schools enjoy. Now, you of the thirty-six, who are no longer with us, may w of the changes which have taken place? For changes have occurred— in fact, that the Sweel Briar of L910 would seem a different place to itn.il : to build, perienced appalling not only )t a o-reat which to organize that were soon and the 1 many a HI toiled the pi eet B Mi ►le? ' Lgh nk vmi for e tell vi