University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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OwtTcnat While very youns and full of new impres- sions, among which was losing the brawl to the Sophs, a gay Leap Year dance and a stag party were big events of that year ... At the Freshmen Assembly, Fred Koebig and Lucretia Tenney introduced us all to our first political experience . . . Our class showed a predominence of candidates for first-vice . . . Many began Kerckhoff careers at this time among whom were: Peg Lawhead, Spencer Williams, Jane Smithwick, Bob Thomas, Leslie Swabacher ... all active throughout their college life . . . We weren ' t lacking in beauty either and proved it by having a freshman queen in our midst in the person of Barbara Hull . . . another winner of honors in beauty was Anne Brown who was freshman attendant to the crew queen of 1940 ... we were an all-around class with representatives in nearly all branches of campus life . . . Our initiation into finals was strenuous but we managed to keep our heads above the blue books and came through weaker but wiser . . . Experiences of Men ' s Week, All-U- FRESHMEN OFFICERS . . . Prexy Bob HIne became one of the Beta clan, ruling arrogantly with V-P Betty Stacy and Secretary Pat Scott (who were first non-orgs, then Spurs, then Alpha Chis) while Max Dunn of Phi Kap fame, served as minority leader and treasur er on the Beverly Council. Party boy and B-footballer Max Dunn has played bridge consistently in Council meetings since his freshman year, when as Treasurer he found little to do. Phi Kap, Max was always a good man to know in the spring. Navy man and Cal Club member. Sings and sports brought us together with upper classmen and we wondered if we ' d ever get there ourselves . . . incidentally, frosh men grew beards for Men ' s Week along with the best of them . . . Spring vacation took on a new meaning when the scene shifted to Balboa where the Frosh saw how the other half relaxed . . . Back on campus in sports we were a hard fighting bunch of kids ... in Frosh Track we went through the season with four wins, three losses . . . smooth-stroking Frosh tennis team had but one setback for the sea- son . . . the class of ' 43 boasted the strongest Freshman crew that the university has seen in four years . . . And so life began in I 940 . . . Nimble-fingered, nimble witted. Phi Delt Hugh Geyer was with the class from the start. A politician of sorts (like most Phi Delts) he never ran for an office and so managed to keep his friends ' til graduation. Gravy: Cal Club and Presidential appointee to the War Board.

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Gathered at the Senior Fall Frolic, held at the nearby Bel-Air Country Club, we find round-a-bouters Max Dunn, Peggy McQuilkin. Dick Woodard and Ginny Hogaboom —jus back from the Farm. Cal-Clubbers all, the frolic was a reunion after their annual inter-university trek. The changing times brought new activities to campus and the Class of ' 43 was always glad to help wherever they could . . . The War Board received active support from the seniors, who bought bonds in the quad and got behind the U.C.L.A.-S.C. drive that netted a million dollars, thereby defeating S.C. in salesmanship as well as football . . . We experi- enced a different kind of hlomecoming without a Bonfire ' s blaze and no parade floats lined the streets, but students guffawed at a unique Liberty Show in Royce . . . We witnessed recovery of the long lost Victory Bell and McKay and Farrer agreed to agree about a half interest in the bell . . . Athletes of the Senior Class deserve a special award for a very successful year . . . Milt Smith, Jack Lescoulie, Ken Snelling, hierb Wiener, Art Spielman, Al Sparlis, and Jack Finlay deserve mention among the football great . . . while John Fryer was a big name in basket- ball and Warren Beck captained the Crew . . . Wallace, Massman, exhibited skill in the shell . . . Ramos and Feldman played good soccer games . . . and Schwab captained the Tennis men . . . Charlie Cramm, Jo Rosenfield, Liz Whitfield, Betty Carbee, Bill Schallert recall jobs well done for Senior Week . . . LARRy COLLINS . . . one of the many Kappa Sigs . . . smooth Senior Class Prexy . . . held the class in harness ' til February . . . left with the mass exodus of the E.R.C. . . . popular and well-liked for all of four years. Back to Bel-Air . . . here we see the dancing crowd . . . Reese Frederickson, Alpha Phi, in the foreground . . . the Class of ' 43 amassed a more sizeable fortune on the Senior Frolic than on its muchly remembered Promenade a season previous.

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I Cliff Dancer, Beta, went out in front during his freshman year only to be nosed out by Red Daggett for Soph prexy. Sat quietly by for a while, then in quick succession hung his pin on Alpha Chi Ruth Elwood and succeeded Bob Hine as War Board Chairman (all in 1942). Even If we didn ' t win the Brawl, we did have an athlete in the form of Johnny Johnson who was captain of the Frosh football team . . . The drama and U.D.S. received some great talent when Mary Welch became a participant of U.C.L.A. productions ... in work and in play we had our fun . . . like when prexy Bob Hine was hiding in a car from Soph pursuers and rumor had it that somebody finally stole car, Bob, and all . . . those rowdy Sophs! . . . We were precocious youngsters and our ingenious minds went to work and gave us the new tradition of Frosh Wednes- day with green hair ribbons and cocky dinks to be worn . . . This was the year we learned how a Babe gets a bearskin . . . when we Voted most likely to succeed by his class at Beverly, Phil Hutchins of the Delta Shelta, was nominated by politician Farrer for freshman class president. Seen most frequently in the vicinity of the Administration Building where he is executive secretary of Interfraternity Affairs. four class councils and thcrc- lore campaigns to her credit Mary Jo McManus, a member of fore an old-timer, has undoubted than any other politician in the class. Ardent Alpha Chi, she is at her best in rough and tumble council meetings or caucus get togcthers. Pretty, blonde Pat Scott was an ardent worker during her first year on campus. Won her Spurs and pledged Alpha Chi Omega during her sophomore year. Wore Stu McKcnzie ' s Delt pin during her junior year and must have been studying during her last year. beat Ca! ... we learned too, about the expe- riences of going up north and rooting with our team . . . our young hearts were broken when we missed the Rose Bowl by two yards . . .