University of Alabama - Corolla Yearbook (Tuscaloosa, AL)

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TS YEAR ai RELATED BY A FRESHMAN CO-ED IN HER LETTERS TO MOTHER AND DAD In attempting to present the University as it actually exists, the theme of this year ' s Corolla is the case history of a typical freshman girl, beginning her four-year career at the big state University. Mary Ellen, a green freshman coed, aghast and awed at the new- ness of everything she finds, in the naive manner of most freshmen, writes home about what she sees at ' Bama. Her letters to Mother and Daddy reveal accurately what her senses tell her about the University, colored vividly by her idealism. She writes, as we all do, of her girl friend, her boy friend, her dates, her classes, her professors. As many of us do, she meets an old friend at registration, one of the few people she knows on the campus, and through this friend meets Donald and Randy. And just as it happens countless times throughout the school year, Mary Ellen, Helen, Donald, and Randy form a clique. They dance together, go to class together, just as do the thousands of students on the campus whom they represent. The students appearing in these scenes were chosen through Blackfriars as being typical of their hundreds of counterparts at the University. In their activities you see student life as it is seen every day on the Capstone campus. They are average students. The setting for each picture was carefully selected, as were the students, as being most representative of the phase of college life they ore meant to portray. So these scenes . . . pictures of a mammoth pro- duction that goes on day after day, year after year . . . feature average students in the leading roles. They cease to be themselves, become personifications of the vast student body they represent. The impressions lingering in the mind of our freshman girl as she writes the folks all about it are here portrayed in her letters. In reading this, your 1941 Corolla, see if you don ' t recognize some of your own ideas about college life in those of Mary Ellen. See if you can ' t pick out dozens of Helens and Donalds and Randys among the students you know and see every day on the campus. m-

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ALL HELEN an d D O N ami . . . about registering and selecting courses and meeting the Deans and professors and all those connected with the University ADMINISTRATION . . . . . . about her classes and quizzes and her favorite professor, be- cause the STUDENT BODY spends most of its time in classes . . . . . . about STUDENT ACTIVITIES - dances and jitterbugs, field trips and dotes . . . . . . about A day and football gomes and the part ATHLETICS play at the University. . . . about fraternity houses and pinning and life among the GREEKS at Alabama . . . about hair-dos and manicures and the BEAUTIES at the Cap- stone . . . about ' Bama ' s ORGANIZATIONS — politics and initiations and keys. . . . The average freshman coed, wide-eyed end open-mouthed, ter- ribly impressed with the vostness of the University, and bursting with enfhusiosm. Her enthusiasm is re- layed to the folks bock home through her letters, in which she de- scribes life at ' Boma.