University of Arkansas Fayetteville - Razorback Yearbook (Fayetteville, AR)

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MOVING IN at Holcombe hall was expedited for the freshman girls by the scores of upperclassmen who annually gather to “help w r ith the bags.” Many men returned to “work” for the first few days. William Lyon, above, assists a new student with her luggage. NEW ROOMMATES Diane Dameron and Jackie Davis get TEDDY PANOS tries to find room in bureau acquainted while trying to arrange clothes and incidentals. for the many things a girl needs at college. 20

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FOOTBALL FEVER infected the campus and most of the state during the early months of autumn. Anxious fans filled Razorback stadium to watch the efforts of a new coach and his well-groomed talented team against stiff opposition of Southwest conference opponents. a bill that prohibited the “A” club’s selling beanies to freshmen and sharply criticized the lettermen for “coercive” measures used to in¬ duce sales. President of Associated Students Ray Thornton vetoed the bill and the senate went charging off down another alley. This was the year that Princess Margaret decided in favor of the Commonwealth and refused to marry a commoner. Group Captain Peter Townsend never amounted to more than just a shadow in romantic history, and it was only proper that Lord Salisbury had sternly maintained that the whole unfortunate incident be treated with the dignity such affairs of state deserve. While British troops in Asia were being killed in a shooting war with the Communists, other “commoners” all over the world agreed that dignity was the most important thing indeed. Football season added color to fall and accelerated the weekends. A curious crowd of 18,000 fans sat on their hands while cautious and unsure Razorhacks scored a 21-6 victory over a team they had defeat¬ ed by almost twice the score the preceding year, and the critics were skeptical of the man from Wichita who replaced Bowden Wyatt as head football coach. As the season progressed, however, Razorback stock began to rise; pig sooeys filled the stands and things started to look better all around. Business school classes were dismissed the afternoon the Yankees met the Dodgers at Yankee Stadium for the seventh game of the World Series. Brooklyn won 2-0 with Johnny Podres on the mound and things began to look better elsewhere, too. RUSH WEEK finally ended with ex¬ hausted Greeks, tired-but-happy pledges. 19

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CLOSET SPACE was another problem, particularly for most of the coeds. Mothers, sisters and aunts were quick to offer suggestions. Preparing for a year Moving in and preparing for a year at school is a prodigious, frightening and frus¬ trating task. Stuffing clothes in an under¬ sized bureau is trying; arranging trunks and suitcases in an inadequate closet is im¬ possible. Mothers help their freshmen daughters unpack, arrange and store, mak¬ ing it difficult for the girls to find anything at all after their parents have gone. Wise fathers are cognizant of their status in the moving in, and after the last trunk or foot locker has been carried up to the room, they find an empty or partially cluttered bed and take a nap until the operation is completed. F ATHERS were usually not consulted after the trunks and suitcases had been carried up. 1 his one is letting mother and daughter unpack. 21