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

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♦ .. i ♦ . i- . .• .■ , ■ .■ f ♦- ♦. ♦- S e i Ci fidvi How like art thou to Joy remembered well! So gleams the past, the light of other days, which shines. ... — Byron Miss Winnie and her family became part of the Sweet Briar community in 1909, when they moved to Mount St. Angelo, in this most Eng- lish of the states. While the college was still quite new, Mount St. Angelo became a second liome to Sweet Briar girls, who came to hear Dr. Walker tell ghost stories, to learn liow to knit, or just to visit. It is with some regret that Miss Winnie has watched Sweet Briar ' s growth from a small, close-knit family to the mucli laiger school of today. However, the friendly atmosphere that existed in the Walker home is still the essence of the spirit of Sweet Briar. One source of this friendliness may be traced to the Bookshop, where Miss Winnie, with her warm smile and thoughtful interest, gives hap- piness to all who come to browse along the shelves. Miss Winme Walker

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' l ♦ 4 ' ♦ ' ♦ » ' • world asiain and ap;ain until it is molded and re- fine«l throufjh its successive experiences of the noblest of human values and strivings. That rare soul which hecoines the enihodiment of the finest aspects of human life, purified of its dross, escapes the cycle of time and life and becomes a part of timelessness. To the West, the movement forwar I of a turninji wheel symbolizes a concept of the nature of time, not as endless repetition, but as a linear motion through a process of con- stant change. So, human life, too, is looked upon as a forwar«l progression toward an envisioned goal, whether as the progress of civilization to- ward the realization of its values, or as the similar progression in an indivitlual life. Here we use a wheel, designed from an old Persian wheel of M life ' in stone, as a symbol of this academic year 1961-62 — an eclectic symbol, with concepts «lrawn from both East and West to characterize our life and the time we spend at Sweet Briar. One revolu- tion of this wheel represents the repetition of a 1 4 W| u f j 4. yearly cycle: annual college events, traditions, the (lay-l -da ritual of allciidiiig classes and studying. The wheel moves forward, loo. with (he changes brought by each revolulion. Mcndicrs of the stu- dent body and faculty change, new traditions grow up from (he old; each student herself, while fun- damentally the same person she was at her arrival here and at her departure, lives for four years in an eiiviroiiMieiit «itli cndlfss opportunities for en- riching herself. The structure of this environment is represented in the very structur ' of tiie wheel. Kach of its spokes represent a part of the struc- ture which retains an en luring value (picturefl by ItiKJdliist symbols) through the years, and which draw onr individual lives into a common bo«ly of experience. Yet we are individually af- fected by the ideas, the people, the events which conu ' into our lives: we make an individual prog- ress as we are borne aU ng to new vistas with the constantly new experience of life, as the wheel turns. 102937 ;»

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tUc Svi V (J tc » . ?V -.T-T J ' -.T, ( c tcr i ' BOOK 1 BOOK 2 BOOK BOOK BOOK BOOK BOOK 7 BOOK 8 Administration Seniors Underclasses Activities Athletics May Day Graduation Directory of Student and Adxertisers page 11 page 23 page 85 page 109 page 133 page 141 |:)age 147 page 153 »! • •