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

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told that freshman always win it . . , Dorothy Ross becomes class president . . Miss Rextrew is elected class advisor. And then the Formal . . , Mary Louise VVolfenden manages it very well . . . everybody has a grand time except perhaps the treasurer who has trouble counting seventy-five dollars in one dollar bills . . . Virginia Wilson is our duchess in the Nlay Court . . . her attendants are Elinor Clay and Peg Waples . . . May Day hnds us running around in fantastic costumes and still more fantastic powder and paint , . . we write an elaborate song to the tune of Neapolitan Nights for the song contest . . . and then they call the whole thing off and where are we? Spring on the campus is unexpectedly lovely . . . the Juniors give us a picnic at Charles- town . . . the first sunburn of the season and plenty of hot dogs and rolls . . . we give a tea to the seniors of Wilmington High School . . . like veterans we show them the campus . . . now weire grown up . . . we're nearly Sophs. Then suddenly we are Sophomores . . . Dorothy Ross as treasurer of the Student Council begs the whole school with tears in her eyes to pay their live dollars , . . Alice Breme as class president runs around trying to please everybody and is greatly agitated when she can't . . . right away we start agitating about insignia , . . stunt night this year we make into a miniature country fair . . . Helen Stelle sells everybody patent medicines, and Muriel Ridgeway lurches drunkenly everywhere . . . good sports, those freshmen . . . and so we present them with horn-rimmed spectacles-minus the glass, of course . . . the success of Founders' Day depends on us . . . at the last minute we have to dash uptown for yellow crepe paper and then make the ribbons out of it , . . everybody says the tea was a great success . . . then after Thanksgiving we give the freshmen a tea party in honor of the removal of their insignia . . . we win the soccer championship , . . and then, after some discussion on the part of the athletic council, we get the championship in volley ball . . . we go to Miss Robinson with the plea that every class has fun but the Sophs, and We want a dancen . . . we talk it over and decide to give a Christmas play in the Hilarium and then give a tea dance the second semester . . . Nhflimi Lights the Candle is the play . . . Alice Pepper as Mimi blossoms into an actress, as does Gertrude Rosenberg . . . before Christmas vacation we go caroling on the campus . . . we come back to New Castleifor cocoa and find that the cooks, lVIarguerite Heiss and -lean Vllood, have had trouble . . . the bottom of the pan leaked, and the cocoa burned . . . and we drink it though. The thrill of our first Junior Prom , . . and how important we 'feel when the Iuniors say they depend on us to support it . . . next year it will be ours . . . lane Yost turns director in the competitives, and Peg Waples proves herself an interesting gypsy . . . Their Husband is the play . . . Virginia Wilson is once more our duchess in the May Court . . . this time her attendants are Anne Roberson and Hazel Darrell . . . then the tea dance in the Hilarium with Alice Palmer in charge . . . a good orchestra, and a bar with bar-maids to serve the punch and pretzels .1 L everyone highly pleased with it . . . maybe we've started another good old?-customi. i' A The SeniorlS'ophomoreluncheon is our really big undertaking . . . Deborah Plummer in charge' .i .I , we plan for a big day at Strath Haven Inn . . , a good menu and plentyfof indoor and outdoorlsports . . . with it behind us we can concentrate on fbecoming Juniors. CX

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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

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