Thiel College - Endymon Yearbook (Greenville, PA)

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Ave Atque Vale! We were the usual green freshmen, foolishly wise sophomores, energetic juniors, and superior seniors. As freshmen, very little passed us by-from our required presence at Freshman Court to our not missing the water in the annual Shenango Ttig-of-War. Well- schooled in the traditional three R's, our college R's,' might be: Registration, Recognition, and Realization. Along with our Registration Day investments of dinks, cotton stockings, we gullibly bought chapel seats, paying up to fifty cents for them. We envied the oratorical eloquence of the upperclassmen during Student Union meetingsg we voted for Mi'. Scholl's proposal of buying furs for the South Sea Islanders and for the assessment of the Amelia Earhart Foundation. We remember singing, Good morning, Reverend Eisenberg, each Wed- nesday and Friday at eight and from our Bible study we shall never forget that Amos was a trimmer of sycamoresf' and that someone was stricken with 'psalsy'. Like the Literary Digest, we predicted a Landon-landslide in the presidential poll. s so iomores, ie am e 1 a ant ie i e con ueret us. ven ie meme A pl rl L btlWlk ltl B Al l E tl tl of the Hop was the Big Applef' We know-it alls were taken down a peg or two, but still gained campus recognition through our active participation in athletics, dramatics, publications, musical and scientific activities. Although dwindling in numbers, we were to continue our domination of inter-class sports. At the end of four years the class of 1940 had remained champions in soccer, touch-football, and girls' volleyball. In our sophomore year, Seventh Heaven had its rise and fall. And never will we forget those Lenten sub- stitutes for dancing, the movies, that I1l0St unpopular feature of class night. Grace's anxiety over decorations and Paul's imploring Please pay your duesf' dom- inated that highlight of our junior year-the Prom. With this year also came our class publication of the 1939 Boy and Girl Endymion. Meriiorable among the bulletin board publications was Buck lvlalmberg Rides Again. Our return to the campus for our year of senior-superiority brought the realization of graduation. We shall remember this year for the dormitory foundation, the young fresh- men, the aviation course, that melodramatic East Lynne, the white-washing of Thiel's traditional gridiron rivals, Upton Close, Norman Thomas, our last Prom, pre-college day, Gold-Letter Day, the retort to Let the Record Speak, our improved culture rating, that memorable Iohnson-for-President campaign, ethics, the faculty-senior tea at Rudisill's, the Mary Fete, and the festivities of Commencement Week, culminating in our final award --that degree. TI-IELMA I. SIEQEL

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RICHARD THORNTON DORIS THOMPSON Gamma Delta, President 42 Class Secretary 45 Intra- mural Sportsg Thielensian 1-2-3-45 Endymion 35 Pan- I-Iellenic Council 41 Dramatics 45 Certincate in Sec- retarial Studies 2. Lambda Chi Alpha, Secretary 21 Student Union, Vice- Presiclent 45 Student Council 45 Class President 2, Vice-President 3-45 Basketball Maxiagei' 45 Intramural Sports 1-2-3-45 L.S.A. I-2, Thielensian 1-25 Enclym- ion 3Q French Club I-22 Interfraternity Council 25 Dramatics 3. GEORGE VETTER Sadhe Aleph 3-45 German Club 3-4. L.S.A. 3-45 T. B. Roth Club 3-45 GOLDA WOOD Gamma Deltag Convocation 22 Student Union, Secre- tary 31 Student Council, Secretary 3Q Class Secretary 1-2, Treasurer 35 Thielensian I-2-3-4, Endymion 35 Beta Beta Beta 2-3-4, Secretary 3-45 Pan-Hellenic Council, Secretary-Treasurer 35 Dramatics 3-45 May Queen 4. IOI-IN NAMEY Viking Club 2-4, President 45 Convocation 35 Intra- mural Sports 2-45 Thielensian 1-2, Circulation Man- ager5 International Relations Club 1-2-45 Classical Club IQ Phi M11 Chi 2-4.

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HARTER, GERBERDING, KIRK, SILVIS This year's junior class, the smallest in the school, with but thirty-seven members had more than one hundred in the class as freshmen. lhey elected freshmen officers their second day on the campus and agreed not to follow hazing rules. This insurgency cost a special Student Union meeting, the revocation of their election, and a new election with almost identical results. Fred Troxell had the distinction of being twice elected freshman class president. After such an independent start, the class of I94I had a quiet sophomore year. They en- forced the traditional initiation rules which they had so cheerfully disobeyed. Their sophomore TI-IE JUNIORS dance was an K'Airplane Hop. Homer Den- nison was president and Christine Perrotta and George Reese were Student Council representa- UVCS. The junior year the classls main concerns were the annual prom and the Emlymion. George Gerbercling was the class president. The theme of the 1940 Iunior Prom was Blue-birds in the lVIoor1light.', The class has been fairly active in athletics, has had its members in stellar roles in many plays, and has maintained a good scholastic record.