University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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The entire work of the week was, as in past years, under the direction of Professor Oscar C. Burkhart of the German depart- ment. Student Chairman Bob Hilliard planned the social and service activities. KNOW MINNESOTA was selected as the 1937 Freshman week theme and freshman were advised that to have the most successful University life they must know that scholar- ship comes first. Information booths were placed in strategic spots on the campus, student tours were arranged, hous- ing and employment services were offered, the system of student ad- visers was enlarged to include rep- resentatives from almost every University division, and repre- sentatives from hfteen major cam- pus organizations sat in the Union distributing information concern- ing their activities. The social program opened on Tuesday afternoon with a free sunlite sponsored by the W.S.G.A. On Tuesday night movies of the . 1936 Minnesota football team were shown in Northrop auditori- 1 um, Wediiesday night was church ' - ' H night. Over 1600 freshmen at- ' I tended these meetings. FRESHMAN WEEK U'NIVERSITY for 3,500 freshmen and transfer students began Sep- tember 2O this year with the Fresh- man week program, one week of social and registration activity be- fore the opening of fall quarter classes. Preparation for the events of the week was started in the early spring and over twenty student commit- tees worked intermittently during the summer and intensively dur- ing the September days before and throughout Freshman week to plan the welcome to the Minnesota campus. And then they came. Twin City freshmen began ar- riving as early as September 16 to take advantage of advance regis- tration, but the greater bulk of in- coming students did not begin the long trek from the opening Walk up the Armory pavement through long hours of registration proce- dure, vocational counselling, ex- aminations, lectures and social ac- tivities until the following Mon- day, September 20. I

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EIQES WHILE the above activities were all being held on the main campus, another program was being run for A-g campus freshmen. For the first time this year, a coordinated social and service program was put into effect on the Ag campus. Complete radio coverage for the activities of Freshman Week was given by WTCN, an NBC station. Street broadcasts were held in front of the armory and post office, and broadcasts of vocational and study program counselling and of various other activities were made. This was in addition to the usual radio coverage for the week arranged for by the Freshman week radio com- mittee. Instrumental in the direction of the various student committees were Margaret Deems, assistant chairman in charge of service com- mittees, Ruth Bloomgren, assist- ant chairman in charge of social committees, Bob Marshall, general 'publicity chairman, and Bill Cow- Clry, financial chairman. CAMPUS sisters and their little sis- ters had tea in Old MacDonald's farm Thursday afternoon. That night some 3,000 students gath- ered in Northrop again for Meet Miniiesota Night. The evening of speeches on Minnesota tradi- tions, singing and stage entertain- ment was to have been climaxed by a torchlight parade to the knoll to plant the class tree. A storm broke in the early evening, how- ever, and prevented the beginning of a Minnesota tradition, Friday night the men gathered in the Union and the coeds in Shevlin hall where they held their respective mixers. Saturday night's All-freshman dance and free carnival climaxed the week's program. Over 2,000 students jammed the Union to dance to the music of two bands on two fioors and to wander through the carnival booths. The highlight of the eveningwas the crowning of Virginia Morck as All-freshman Queen. Her attendants were Betty Lobdell, Mary Ann Fulton, Helen Hurley, Jane Shields and Betty Ryland. They were selected on the basis of beauty, high school schol- astic average and high school ac- tivity record. HMAIXI WEEK