Valparaiso University - Beacon / Record Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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BARBARA KOHN HERBERT KNOTHE ALBERT KLIMEK V. President President Treasurer THEY LEAD BEGI NNERS held in our honor. Our high position was short lived, however, for we were again put in our place at the pledge meetings of the respective organizations which we had joined. Having become somewhat adjusted to our new environment, we began to enter into extracurricular activities. Hank Miller turned out good football and basketball teams. Delinquents came out, and we awakened to the real purpose for which we came to college. Christmas vacation, cramming, and exams ended our first semester at Valpo. The second semester opened on a changed freshman class. We at last began to feel ourselves a part of the University. Laboratories took on a significance hereto- fore unknown; history began to have some continuity. We began to appreciate the true significance of chapel. We woke up one morning to find that we belonged, that we were really a part of Valpo. Our lives became more rhythmical, even though we did spend too much time in the Varsity Shoppe and in long, fascinating, aimless discussions. The work was not so hard, studying was no longer the drudgery it had been at first. The second semester delinquent report did not hit us so hard. Yes, we felt that we be- longed. Valpo Aprils being as they are, we are frightened by spring fever. We've had a rollerskating party, and we have a beach party coming along. All in all, it's been a good year; may the others be as good. OFFICERS RUTH TRIER Secretary Page Twenty-nine

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By train, by bus, by car, even by thumb, we came to Valpo the second week in September. From Califor- nia and Massachusetts, from Louisiana and Minnesota we come to make up one of the largest freshman classes in years. Strangers come to make us at home in the bare rooms of Lembke and Altrurio; we did not have a chance to become lonesome. We made friends quickly in the commonness of our situation. Freshman week passed suddenly, and we were soon in the complicated process of registration. Two days later, we attended our first classes. How we envied the upperclossmen who took every- thing so cosuolly. Would the work be tougher than high school? What would the profs be like? Still in a daze from the excitement of the previous week, we were suddenly jolted by the mighty Sophs. Button, Frosh! Grab your onk'es! We were marched down town, and, encouraged by paddles, forced to scrub the courthouse steps. But the Sophs's hazing did not go unchallenged. One morning the campus become measle-spotted with red 43's- which we had to scrub off with bricks. The Sophs rushed our Homecoming bonfire. They lost. They sock-roced against us. They lost. After Homecoming, fraternity and sorority rushing began, bottling us with the sudden change in our posi- tion on the campus. Smokers, dinners, and Stags were

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MAYNARD AHRENDT CLAIRE ALLETT ESTHER ALWIN HARRY BOBCOCK MARY LOUISE BAIR JEROME BARCUS LESTER BERGSLIEN ARMOND BETHKE EARL BINDIG ' HAROLD BISCHOFF CHARLES BITTNER HOWARD BOLLMANN TORE BORG IRENE BORKOWSKA ALMA BRADEN MINNIE BRANDT PHYLLIS BROCKMAN EVELYN BROWN VELIO BUCCICONE RICHARD BURANDT