Wesleyan College - Veterropt Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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OFFICERS Lee Rees. President Eleanor Muse Secretary Elaine Pridgen Vice-President Leola Burnett. Treasurer All the type has been set and the presses are rolling. The Journal of the Class of 40 has been put to bed. The banner head reads Seniors Gain Diplomas and the number one head says, Hard Struggle for Four Years. Glancing through the first edition, one may sec in the section marked first year ’ only very faint signs of the debonairness of the class of 40. There is a snapshot that shows a stern forbidding group and another somewhat meeker bunch in the background. The meek ones with their hair in pigtails are members of the ever ill-fated Fresh¬ man Class being ducfully ratted by the sophs. There is a writeup of the soccer season in this section telling of how the class of ' 40 went to the finals only to be defeated by the seniors. A feature gives a vivid account of the Thanksgiving banquet. Reading a little hidden mean¬ ing into the actual words one senses the impression made upon the freshmen by this, their first banquet at Wesleyan. A small paragraph says the judges practically ignored the efforts of the first year class on Stunt Night when they came in fourth with their melodrama. On the society page arc accounts of a half dozen weddings in which many names from the Freshman Class are seen. In the Sophomore Section appears the first double head column with black letters announcing Sophomores Win Trophy for Best Stunt. This year the class presented a machine with stunts to order. The Mrs. Bluebeard act and the ultra-modernistic dance helped the stunt reach and hold its place at thi top of the column. It is in this section that the words to the song Sophomore Class of 40 first appear. In spite of these new words of encouragement there is a notice that the Sophomore Soccer team was stopped in the finals by the seniors, and that the swimming team placed second. The sophomores won two other double column play-ups in this section. Headlines read Sophs First in Basketball ' ' and Golf Trophy Goes to Sophs. The Junior Section is one of features. The most prominent is one discussing little sisters. The junior year was made a more outstanding one, reads the arti¬ cle, because of the appearance of the class that was to be the sister class of the girls of 40. In the first column is a story that tells of the loss of the class spon¬ sor and of how the class marched across the campus in a body and invaded the portals of the li¬ brary to find another sponsor there.

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Above—Business administration and the rou¬ tine of classes—Tate Hall . . . Left—A view of the loggia from the Alpha Delta Pi pool . . . INI ASSES BEAUTIFUL

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CLASS Mist Carnes entertains the „ rl fl.un »« • «P« d •— A. »«« ' b«to e M.y 30th. ACTIVITIES There is no banner over this soccer story, although the juniors went to the finals only to be defeated by the sophomores. But a double-column head over the basketball story an¬ nounces that the juniors won the championship. And then it all leads to the Senior Section which is the most revealing section in the whole Journal. It is here that the seniors tell of their mix¬ ture of joy and regret at the thought of writing their last story. They win a double header on the front page as they, after three years of going to the finals, finally win the Soccer Championship and the cup. The story of the stunt says the seniors were awarded second place. An unusual feature of this section is one in which the seniors express their attitudes and views along the lines of their four years at Wesleyan and what it means to be a senior and ready to graduate. There are state¬ ments referring to the Thanksgiving banquet and the peculiar feeling that this banquet was their last. Things to be remembered are: the songs of the carollcrs at Christmas time, the excitement of soccer and basket¬ ball, the constant rush to classes and labs, and trips to the pharm. The Senior Class has won its final double-column head, has written its last box-feature. The presses are rolling off the memories that the class of 1940 will read in their Jour¬ nal when they re¬ member Wesleyan. By Margaret Hunter. CONSERVATORY OFFICERS Martha Ramsey President La Verne Baird Vice-President Wilda Maddox Secret ary-T reasurer - 25 -