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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