Wheaton College - Nike Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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Ceremony Gap The Chapel is one of the first buildings we learn to love when we come to Wheaton, and the services held there on week-day mornings wil] be among the last things we will forget when we leave. We remember Dr. Park’s words, and in our minds we hear them again against a background of Bach on the organ. In the Fall we watched the Seniors take their places, sober in their caps and gowns, and now we recall the ex- citement of the March services and the announcements of election results. New officers for old organizations. The end of the old order; the beginning of the new. ’ er nee Day Founders’ Day means the color of hoods; the solemnity of the procession; the Wheaton Hymn; last year’s seniors, now alumnae. This year our speaker was Allardyce Nicol] of Yale, who talked on the modern theater. Resplendent Se ac al

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Phe Serious You is your deepdown self which prompts You to chew a pencil and peer out at the world through horn- rimmed specs. It is the You that is intensely interested in your major, that pitches into bull sessions to argue about labor problems, meta- physical poetry, and the Balkan situation. It is You with your feet planted firmly on the ground, realizing just what sort of a job you're undertaking when You enter college.

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ia We find that what we came to college for was knowledge after all, and we hurry to philosophy with a theory of our own to be tossed into the general discussion. We work in the Jabs until long after dark. There are discussions where we can air our pet ideas and have them judged. In the Spring we invade our own home towns and attack the unsuspecting citizen with ques- tionnaires for a sociology paper. All these are a part of our college life. PHI BETA KAPPA Back Row: Jane Farwell, Su- zanne Rose, Doris Barrett, Evelyn Fay, Margaret Joy Tibetts, Mary Scoit Powell Front Row: Anna Mulno, Agnes Sheff, Elizabeth Hoye, Eleanor Haggett, Marjorie Rush Concentration Of course some of us do better than others. In February came the announce- ment that seven students had been elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. At the initiation banquet Eleanor Haggett, Dusty Barrett, Jane Farwell, Elizabeth Hoye, Anna Mulno, Polly Powell, and Sue Rose received their gold keys. Four others from the class ot 1941, Evelyn Fay, Mardi Rush, Agnes Sheff, and Margaret Joy Tibbetts had joined this society during their Junior year. { Page 11 }