Wheaton College - Nike Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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Information please FALL BEGINS OUR YEAR See brings us back to Wheaton as the leaves turn color and the days grow shorter. Once again be lls ring and the walks are crowded with girls. At night lights shine from the dormitories. Voices and laughter are heard and the campus awakens from its summer quiet. There is something new among us, a new class. New faces, new personalitites, what will they bring to Wheaton, we wonder. What will Wheaton bring to us, wonders the freshman. After the view of the campus from the Visitors’ Entrance which she learned as a sub-freshman, the administration building is the first part of Wheaton to become known to a freshman. The very first day she registers there and then goes to find her room. In the rest of her life at college the ad building will play an important part, for in it is the machi- nery of Wheaton. In the perplexities of the first days this memory of the ad building fades. It does not take her long, however, to become familiar with the lower floor of the building. Up and down the stairs we go a dozen times a day. The freshman joins us. Three times a day we peer into our mailbox and reach for the shadow that looks just like a letter. If we've used the last sheet of paper in our notebook, need a new pair of socks, some stamps, the latest Mademoiselle, a get- well card forCousin Lulu who has the mumps, or are facing any kind of an emergency we trot down to the bookstore and Mrs. Perry produces the very thing we need. Freshmen are not long in following the path worn to its door. (No, no mousetraps, Stanton.) The bulletin board is also important to all of us. Before the emergency board we push and shove at 8:30 a.m. looking for possible cuts or any startling news which may be posted. At other times we lean on the shelf and study posters, contemplate the possibili- ties of going to that concert in Boston or con- sider the notice that says someone has room for three paying passengers to New York. The bulletin board summarizes Wheaton. Gym cuts, choir lists, play rehearsals, exam schedules, are all found there and the calen- dar announces our social life. Soon after arrival the freshman discovers eal