University of Delaware Womens College - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Newark, DE)

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Qllaza Gbiiirrra AI.IcIs BREME .... ...,.. P resident VIRGINIA WVILSON .... . . ,Vice-Prefident lVlARGARE'I' JAMES .... .... S ecretary HELEN Du'IrI'IsIz .... ..., T 1'ea5u1'ev' Alirxe Brenna lgnrtrnit nf ai Srnphnmnrr Elalking In livwarlf O this is college. A dignified upperclassman meeting us at the door, smiling, glad to help us in this labyrinth . . . a dizzy whirl of lectures during the day, and parties in the evening . . . all of us sticking close to the friend we knew back home, making new friends slowly . . . and then when all the upperclassmen come back we seek out the faces remembered from that first week . . . that's how classes are born. Then theI'e's the awful suspense about insignia . . . will it be celluloid ears or something worse? NO . . . it's green hair ribbons presented after stunt night . . . who will forget it? A grand imitation of 'fGrand Hotel . , . Arlene Wagner as Garbo . . . Charlotte Stout as Joan Crawford . . . then a period of sneaking furtively across campus . . . of marching as boldly as possible uptown with that hair ribbon almost burning your head . . . and finally the party that frees is of all things . . . this is the night when lVIaI'garet James recites the poem about the bass, and Queen Crossan the poem about MaI'y's lamb . . . our class captain is Dorothy Ross . . . sub-captain Nlarty Broad . . . we settle down to holding doors and answering phones . . . Marguerite Heiss is selected for the student board representative . . . we are suddenly aware that we are expected to produce a play for the competitives . . . Mary lVIcCullough is in charge . . . the play is lVIorley's Rehearsal , and, as a result of our efforts, it receives honor- able mention . . . remember the way Jean Wood as the old Irishman smoked a Pipe? VVe win the basketball championship, but our ego is deflated when we are cix