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

Page 27 text:

DAYS Deborah Pierce is one of the lucky ones. She has two men, Ronald Dellicker and Irving Jacobs an to appreciate her feminine charms. September semester began, and the upperclassmen were quick to recognize the incoming freshmen. Looking back, we remember November as the month of the wearing of the green dinks and cardboard signs. Sounds of Buttons, Frosh filled the campus air as the response bounced back, ' Beat Bloomsburg, Beat Drexel . Violators were reported to the Freshman Court. Those were the days when we decided to go easy on the poor freshmen. But, do we recall the days of our freshman regulations when just women students were put through the scourge of hell week ? Remember walking to class with hair up in socks one day, pin curls the next, and strings the next ? The humiliation of it all — we were college freshmen. We had just started to get acquainted with the men on campus when frosh regulations ordered no dates, no make-up. But then, one year later we had hidden the dinks and signs, and we sat back like smug upperclassmen to watch the freshmen squirm. Regs began and were ended before any of us realized that the semester was progressing and that we, the college community, had settled down to life at West Chester State.

Page 26 text:

THEIR llIDERIiRilDllilTE Books, books, and more books . . . hours spent searching through the stacks for a special book . . . Sunday afternoons trying to accomplish a week ' s work. These are the luxuries -of the Francis Harvey Green Library. In the recreational reading room are found stacks upon stacks of fiction books to suit all tastes and jjersonal- ities. Pictured below is a typical group relaxing in a quiet corner of the recrea- tional reading room. They are as pictured : Charles Grumbine, John Brennan, Gary Zwieg, Harry Reiff, and Harry Gallant. Also on the second floor and opposite to the recreational reading room is the juvenile room, which is used by the elementary students and the children of the Demonstration School. The elementary students use this room primarily as a source for children ' s literature. Our juvenile room is considered one of the best among children ' s libraries. On the main floor of the library is found the reference room with its collection of encyclopedias and other reference books. Opposite this room is the reserve room, where special material needed for classroom work is kept available for the college students. In the basement we have the recreational reading room, where students can read newspapers and magazines for classwork or for personal enjoyment. Pictured to the left are Elizabeth Senst, Virginia Keshel, and Robert Bade spending an after- noon in study. On each floor of the library there are stacks of books, row ujx)n row of useful books to aid the student to prepare an assignment. Individual desks and tables are provided for study. But it is to the stacks with its small desks that most students go to seek quiet and conducive study atmosphere. The library would be incomplete without its staff of efficient librarians and student helpers. Miss Helen Russell is the head librarian, and her staff includes Miss Faye Collicott, Miss Geraldine Conbeer, and Mrs. Beltz. To these librarians we can sincerely say thank you for having helped all of us to become better students.

Page 28 text:

MilKIIG Memories are made of what we thought were common campus scenes. We can now look back on the everyday occurrences and realize the important part they played in our college life. Remember the times we complained about the West Chester weather? Never- theless, we withstood them all — rain, snow, sleet, and hail. The rains came, and we weathered the storms as we dashed from building to building and from class to class. We sought refuge from the out-of-doors in the snug warmth of the college dinifig room. Will we ever forget those cafeteria-style meals at the beginning of each semester and those endless lines — however did they get so long? As the semester progressed, the luxury of waiter service returned. Students relaxed and listened to the announcements given over the dining room public address system. With the progression of the fall semester came the unforgettable Valkyrie Club regulations administered to unsuspecting sophomore health and physical education women students. Up in the morning to the strains of the Valkyrie Chorus, women students entered the smoker to meet their ladies-in-waiting . Junior and senior health eds — remember how we thought we would never live through those hectic three days? Beds to make, shoes to be shined, the quadrangle measured in cigarettes — but when we were upperclassmen we expected the sophomores to live up to all the rules. And the poor sophomore struggled on to become finally a member of the famed Valkyrie Club. Remember the cartoon that appeared in Quad Angles asking why we did not teach them how to act like ladies ? Were we annoyed ? Do we remember? As the years burn into glowing embers, we shall remember . . . we shall remember. . . .