Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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BBH UfflUlU I I mlift ' III II Mil I WIiM I ' HJ: n-BiH— -i — in iihmiiiiii in r — — -tmaassssi iirimrwiHiTiri Mp Orientation and a Concert in the Gardens The year started a few days early for freshmen and the people who were here to orient them. Despite some confused plans and an over-crowded two days, this year ' s harried new students lasted through Orientation. A solid day of testing gave a break to the group leaders and an omi- nous hint to the freshmen of the quiz and exam schedules to come. Of all the meetings, the group discus- sions at advisor ' s houses were the most beneficial. Here, the freshmen discovered the relevance of such topics as How to relate to home life once you have adjusted to college? Throughout the first week they met their cousin ' s best friend, got quickly conditioned to registration, and, like everyone else, made those visits to the P.O. that are so frequent at the beginning of the year.

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THE YEAR The Measured Pace of Experience and Feeling Tomorrow is Wednesday and the day after is Thursday, and then it ' s Friday. — a sad but typical remark. When a whole year goes from day to day, it goes not slowly, but as if it had not quite been. One wonders if a year really is 365 days, or whether it ' s a rounded-off 8 J A months with some breaks in-between called vacations. Maybe a year is another two semester course from syllabus to exam. Or it ' s the first year to leave friends and find out what hours and q.p. ' s mean, and what it ' s like to have classes three days a week with fraternity parties on weekends, and dorm life all the time, and only the bus for a sure ride to town. And amidst all this, the days seem like weeks, and the weeks seem like days, and the month is gone — surely not finally. And so is the year. But it ' s not just a calendar year or a month or a day ticked off in little black numbers by the distorted time of a clock. It is a measured year, though, measured by experience and feeling; and the second hand moves from the 12 to the 12 only as fast as you do. It seems that living it, the time didn ' t go nearly as fast as remembering it, trying to put each part of it back together. It ' s a year too long for some, but never long enough for others. For some people the year is a graph that never gets off the horizontal until it ' s over; for others it ' s a jumble with big highs and lows that were never realized until they were over. . . . But it ' s always that way. This year was full of highs and lows for Wake Forest, and for many students, too. Each person ' s year was different, of course, but we hope these pages cover some of the high points in a way that you remember them. Whatever else may change, however, the seasons are always remembered. Al- though the year may overlap itself, the seasons are always its vague demarcations.

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Then the Candid Weekend of the Summit Conference The year began uniquely for a group of freshmen men who were allowed to live in Faculty and Reynolda Gardens Apartments as an experimental solution to the problem of perennially over- crowded dorms. In Johnson Dorm, junior advisors for the first time lived on halls with the freshmen girls, helping them with their initiation to college life and their inevi- table questions. The first fall week ended with the Pozo-Seco Singers concert in Reynolda Gardens. There had never been a concert like that one — sitting on the hill on a barely summer night — a small chill — and a lighted, wooden stage at the edge of the lake below. It was nice to move the informal togetherness of a good concert to the Gardens, a sort of special part of the campus. Many new things were tried and ini- tiated this year; as one of these, the Sum- mit Conference accomplished its purpose: student, faculty, and administration leaders met for a candid weekend at Camp Hanes to discuss mutual problems of the school. Last year ' s skepticism at the whole idea of a frank talk with the adminis- tration was shattered by Vice President Lucas and other members of the new administration. Participants talked openly and off the record, proposing new ideas and explaining the reasons for past ac- tions. Of course, no decisions were made or direct actions taken as a result of the talks, but students and faculty members gained a new understanding of the ways and means of gaining realistic solutions to their problems. A trip to the P.O. singers sing Reynolda G; Professors rdcd. thei (opposite above). The Pozo-Se i ballad on the make-shift stage dens (opposite below). gather at Camp Hanes (top), ai ive and Karen Swartz (above) meet i of individual talk that made the wee cessful. jjgjjgjjjSjjj jjggsffl