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

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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

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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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KAPPA PLEDGES entertained the capacity crowd at the orientation show with a skit about various types of coeds. Gail Wood, in front of chorus line, executes a wierd combination of a softshoe and bop, while the chorus shrieks the words to pop-tune “Seventeen.” Orientation: Legs and talent The orientation skits in the Greek theatre presented by the new pledge classes of the various sororities are rarely or¬ ganized, poorly planned and always entertaining. Revolving principally around leg art and occasionally featuring a pledge with some sort of less obvious talent, the skits are similar in form and presentation every year. For girls to plan a skit in the first few days after pledging is in itself a difficult, if not foolhardy, task, and the lack of polish in production is overlooked by a not-too-discri- minating audience. Orientation is directed by the men’s honorary Omicron Delta Kappa. The skits for this year’s orientation show were tied together in a single, confusing afternoon by Steve B. Friedheim, who, having directed the varsity show for the 1954 Gaebale, was aware of the staging and lighting diffi¬ culties presented by the open-air theatre. DIRECTOR of the sorority pledge skits, Steve Friedheim, puffs on his pipe before next act. 22