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

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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. . . .

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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.

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MEMORIES Pictured at the upper right are Pauline Harold, Phyllis Marinacci, and Robert Carlin in the George Washington Social Room, standing before the famous Peale portrait of General Washington. This portrait is one of West Chester ' s greatest treasures, is nationally famous, and world-renowned.