University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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stmoR CLASS OFFICERS Not merely students with high sounding titles attached to them are the senior officers. They have a job to do and they are doing the traditional things in an untraditional way. This year Cap and Gown day is the 29th of May with President Ford's reception that afternoon. Then to make a really big day of it, the Senior Prom, chairmaned by Art Buchman, will be on the same night . , . hard on Grey Friar and Mortar Board with their serenading and Breakfast. This senior field day was arranged by class president Eben Finger . . . secretary, Margaret Lahey . . . treasurer, Gordy Starr, and all the rest of the cabinet, representing the various colleges. Cabinet felt that seniors have less class spirit than any other class and went out to do something about it. Scheduled a senior get-together before Cap and Gown day . . . arranged a senior sunlight in the Union . . . kept every color scheme in harmony with the class colors. The cabinet is a serious, deliberative body . . . always . . . until Senior Arrangements Chairmen, Bud Nelson and Gus Cooper, get started at the monthly dinner meetings in the Union . . . seniors once more revert to nature. But they are seniors . . . feeling their age . . . already stories begin with . . . Remember the time when ... Ebon Finger Margaret Lahey Gordon Starr Cooper, Nelson 8ack Row: Johanton, Finger, Kraomor, Buehman. Starr, Er»tod, Muir, Jung. Jaffo; • Front Row: Dicstncr, Lahey. Lund, HoWttrom, Lobb. Brown.

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Dinner time . . . the solid part of it at the Senior Prom ... the last big party of college days . . . rose colored glasses cast off after this . . . but this . . . what one thinks of when he exhales. Ah, them was the days. Foresters' Day 1939-40 . . . some of the present seniors do a little knife throwing . . .no one's back in sight either. Big-shot Bernie Eliason in the prime of his junior year . . . Silver Spur and the Y were his.