Thiel College - Endymon Yearbook (Greenville, PA)

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UNDERCLASSMENlS STORY Registration Day and Feetithot's how it all started. From desk to desk, from one advisor to another, until at last we found the right one. And then the Feet. No place to sit all day, just walk, walk, and stand. What did we do in the evening when registration day was over? Feetiwe danced! And the next evening? What did we do? More Feet; more dancing, but only after shaking a million people's hands at the formal reception. The formalities were soon over and we walked up and down stairs to classes. We walked down the hill, down the streets between and after classes and on our dates. See or show, drink or coke and then walk back up again. Well, there's not much to our story for the next two or three years thatls out of the ordinary. The walks we took in our Freshman year we repeated many times over as Sophomores ornd Juniors. We watched the trees on Brother Martin's change to their colorful autumn robes before they retired for the winter and then we ploughed through the snows and bucked the winds. Soon the worm spring sun, from which the snows fled, shone on the peripotetic Seniors and they left, too. But why has the scene Changed so suddenly? Who were these Seniors, anyway? rThe scene has changed because we were the Seniors and we are here no more. 16

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FBESHMAN CLASS HISTORY Thiel College opened her doors to three hundred of us Freshmen in September of 1948. The college was a changed place for a few weeks until we became accustomed to our new way of living. The first week was filled with dances, parties, and I. Q. tests. We girls learned to live together in a new home called Livingston Hall and the boys lived in private homes throughout the town. We were just beginning to feel like dignified collegiates when Hell Week arrived. We certainly lost all our dignity as the boys walked around the campus in skirts and the girls paraded in their nightgowns. Soon after Hell Week , Homecoming became the word that caused excitement among Thiel's populace. Here the Freshman triumphed as we succeeded in pulling the Sophomores into the Shenanqo at the annual tuq-of-war. We built the float for Shirley Hall, our Home- coming Queen. Despite our Freshman contributions to the football team, Thiel lost the game to Grove City. Following Homecoming, the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays arrived. We were de- lighted at the delicious holiday dinners served to us before each student departed to his respective home, some for the first time since September. Next, came the finals . There were many lamps burning all night long in the Freshman rooms for that week of exam- inations. Now, the end of the second semester is drawing near. Some of us will never return, but we shall always remember our first year at Thiel during which we were guided by our most capable officers: Gilbert Chester, President; Virginia Imbusch, Vice-Presi- dent; lune Bundy, Secretary; Richard Wise, Treasurer, and William Foisel, Student Council Representative. 18