Vassar College - Vassarion Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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FUND.-X MIENTALS yond, celebrate their exuberance with ceremonies like Swupper, which begins in the pool and ends with sandwiches in the game room. The OutingfClubbers, the yachtsf women and the Swuppers have already been through the cocoon stz1ge.Working backwards in their developmental hisf tory, we find that they all originated as very new and unfundamentalized fresh' men. Even as the least of us, they had to blow into the lung capacity machine, and take motorfability tests. They took A SVVUPPER swimming tests too, and no fooling about it. She who cannot swim, must, at least diplomatically, sink. Unless, of course, she can develop a sinus complaint. , 'Na 21

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A.A. Ojjiccm: Rosalie Thorne '40, Vicefljresidentg Hilda Sizer '40, Chairman of the Outing Club, Comfort Cary '40, President, Sylvia Taft '41, Secretary, ,Ioan Paterson '42, Treasurer. You have no doubt heard about the increase in Vassar girls' waist and ankle measures since 1880, or whenever it was that the gym department became inf terested in such vital statistics. Well, here on these pages you have one of the causes. Athletics . . .how we love them, some of us. The seniors were the first class to have been exonerated, after only a twof year period of trial, error and fundaf mentals. Swimmingfcutters, basketballf cutters, nonfqualified bowlers and archf ers, and badminton reluctants rejoiced, but there were those who struggled on. There are those, as you see, who are willing, even eager. The Cuting Club station wagon, that gladsome vehicle, bears them about the countryside on weekfends. They are seen to leave, their 20 yellow chariot laden with skiis. They are seen to return, sometimes a trifle wearily, but always with a rugged glow which bespeaks good health, good times, and great good stamina. The wagf goners are a minority, and their waggoning cannot be enjoyed forever. On weekfdays, therefore, they and others of athletic persuasion stride about campus clutching hockey sticks, or float in that nebulous vessel, the Vassar yacht, which is said, but never seen, to sail upon the Hudson. Those who relish cold water in November and bef 4:40.

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The fall of IQBQ will be remembered as the season of the little red books which proved that seniors Work less than anybody else. We kept those records early in the year, before the seminars became very serious. Once caught in the toils of their theses, many seniors were completely campusfbound. It was their turn to envy the freshmen, those harclfvvorking Women who taxied Curriculum Board: Barbara Lewif sohn, Anne Galpin, jean Costello Nlarjory Mills, Virginia Shafroth, Peggy Skelly, Ruth Bennett. Sally Lawson. Rosalie Thorne '40, Chnirmang Rachel Cooper. Katlif erine Little. Not .xl1ou.w1.Roseinary Cody Betsy Pifer. Victoria Hart' well. lvlonnie Douglas. Angela Lang. off to the station every Friday. The demand for cubicles increased as We brooded over topics due before Thanksf giving. It was eerie in the basement of the libe on Saturday nights. There were no Wandering freshmen seeking the path to Taylor, no errant sophomores reading back numbers of The New Yorker. The seniors really Worked. CAMPUSED