University of North Carolina Greensboro - Pine Needles Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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TB ur IstVear . . . ami you realize flial your sister class graduated in the spring and that tV years ago you lookeil up to juniors M ' ith awe and revere Jsf . . . feeling funnVAbecause being a junior crept up on your major, a reality instead of courses in the college cata- logue . . . seriouVVlioughts and jokeA about the cold, cold world and bread lin . . . Woman ' s (Vwlege, seeming safe and secure and protectivH . . regretting t)lie courses you didn ' t take and the lists of luiread books . . . forrfiefting it all wiwASully Mason, W. C. ' s first name band, and aSlwautifid juuror-seuior, the orchestra coming late and Stardui«tV at the e ii ... a spring of endless rain . . . dis- covering the little park across Xr i t ' ' Vliockey field after three years of not knowing it was mWe . . 1 May Day in Aycock like fresh- man year, praying 194lw«ul(ftby a rainless May . . . buying gradua- tion presents and missing people even irefyrA they leave . . . talking about appropriations and a StudeVitNllInion — a bigger and better Woman ' s College . . . wonderijigi Ijiow it will look ten years after you graduate.

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And Tii en At Last . . . all you ' re a senior . . . ready to leave this place that doesn ' t seem so big anyuioreV . . leaving four years of fifty minute hours in Mclver sinwlhV Ad Building and Curry and the Gym and, because |hey yer four hours, the whole sprawling campus is yours the girls you know and toe faces you pass on the way to classes . . . teachers w hoseV ' Olwl you copied in grey-blue notebooks, ideas you argu cl abpul ii lunch lines and across coffee at the Corner uniforms — out of v gue tor nymals, ORD — a housing pi lorious week- pd a t sii»rt Ji l+r u irate « uiy -t arty ol aqy young men, on f t p lie wars . . . watching your fest l ay DaW . • remem bering Sunday terii i wifli bombers roaring over the ho field . . me ng tHiat laft Monday class and wondering iiVh will ram on Mon«ays in Greensboro . . . walking do ii the aisle for the la ma s meeting, feeling Vraduated already . . . packing foi of ife your lile Mnto cardboard boxes and almost yellii you next year to next year ' s seniors . . . walking atrjss the stage, stai ing Ui your last campus performance to the little group of QelativQs . . . grinning and tikrning the tassel.