Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing - Pledge Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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79 STUDENTS SING OF HIGH HOPES

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The spring semester of a college stu- denfs last year of school typically emerges as a time of looking to the fu- ture, making plans, and forming hopes for the days ahead. In tune with this feeling, members of the WRAIN cho- ruses and selected individuals from the student body attempted to transform their dreams into song as they presented itHigh Hopes? the annual spring con- cert. The concert emerged with the musical efforts of the students and the help of the lighting and stage crews, who added the necessary technical elements of the production, as an entertaining success for all who attended the performance. - skk 78

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In May, the typical WRAIN student was beginning to show the wear-and-tear of a long semester. Spring and gradua- tion fever was affecting the juniors, and seniors performances respectively, and the days became long and endless. For- tunately, the WRAIN Picnic on 21 May was the prescribed shot of epinephrine which provided a day of camaraderie, food and sports events under the hot sun at Forest Glen. Maudie Flemister and Randy Caltrid- er, SGA social chairmen, planned the days activities with meticulous care; they didn,t want anyone to be thirsty or hungry! Meanwhile, the days activities started at 1300 when the junior football team, quarterbacked by Art Wallace twith plays diagrammed on index cards! L threw two touchdown passes to Denise Stroud and ran for another to lead the small and scrappy Junior Rogues to a 21-7 victory over the larger but slower Senior Meanies. It was a hard game which resulted in a prognosis of bruises and sore bodies, and juniors ribe bing seniors for a week. The starving masses were catered to by a barrage of grilled hamburgers, pota- to salad, carrots and baked beans which disappeared quickly once the aroma of grilled beef whifted through the air. With their appetites satiated, the crowd observed the Faculty softball team, mys- teriously filled with recently recruited non-faculty types, come from behind in the 7th inning to topple the Students 6-5. A protest was immediately lodged by the students but was lost in transit. The picnic was described as a great escape from the pressures of a heavy study weekend; it was also the last chance for both classes and faculty to have an enjoyable time as a group in an informal setting. Judging by the tihight 0f the frisbeesf the laughing and joking, and satisfaction of hearty appetites, it was accurately assessed that a good time was had by ALL! e apw