West Chester University - Serpentine Yearbook (West Chester, PA)

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MR. GEORGE S. ROBERTS Because of his lovable personality, his Fine character, his keen wit, and sense of humor, Uncle George has gained a long list of friends and an even greater number of acquaintances in his twenty-two years of service to the college in the capacity of registrar. A native son of Chester County and an ex-student of the normal school, he, as secretary of the Alumni Loan Fund, constituted the main link between the college and its alumni, hlis retirement will be felt keenly by all those who knew him during his long service here. Nine

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MISS LIDA J. LOW Since the summer of 1922, when the State Summer School for Music Supervisors was established here by Dr. hHoilis Dann, Miss Low has shared on this campus the ripe experiences gained from years of travel and study in this country and abroad. To those students who already possessed a larger share of savoir faire, she became an inspiration to even higher attainments, while to those less gifted, she gave sympathetic understanding and encour- agement. Our gratitude for all that she has given us will last long after her departure. Eight

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LE NOEUD Early in September, A. D., 1937, four hundred new students, re- cuperating from vacations, made their first appearance on the campus- Receptions by the president and by the Y organizations, with various other entertainments, successfully quelled the majority of their most superficial nostaglic symptoms. Supplementary preventive measures of homesickness included the return of upperclassmen, the familiar torture of tests, and the imposition of regs . The prohibition of the exercising of natural impulses was the most disturbing of the regulations enforced upon the entering students. Not to use make-up or wear pins or emblems, while being forced to wear name cards and ribbons, proved unsatisfactory to the women. Similarly, the wearing of dinks and black ties and the forbidding of rings and letters were offensive to the men. To both sexes the requirements of answering all telephone calls and the restriction of dating seemed a very decided handicap. With an address by Dr. Francis hHarvey Green, combining serious advice and subtle humor, the re-convening of clubs, the scoring of a football victory, the simplicity of Prayer Week, and a stimulating lecture by Dr. Ade, the adjustment of the Class of 1940 was continued. Fresh- man Stunt Night completed the orientation of the timid frosh when new talent was realized within the confines of the campus. F ome Coming Day was a welcome occasion with the reunion of parents and students,- the Radio Pep Rally, the Doris Kenyon recital, and the Will Durant lecture were appreciated by everyone. On Election Day, like erroneous straw vote editors, the students elected London as chief executive. On November fourteenth in their Stardust Fantasy, the all to end all before the Thanksgiving vocation, the juniors attained the zenith of sociability. Ten