Wheaton College - Nike Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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And then the plans took shape, growing with every day in the year. ‘The first weeks at chapel when we donned the scholarly black cap and gown of the Seniors, and with them came the knowled ge that the year could and would be the best for everyone. We all looked proudly at each other as we waltzed nonchalantly through the front door of the chapel with a black tassel dangling over the left eye. Carley, Marguerita, Skip, and Jimmy returned to the fold to add the inter- national flavor already supplied by Claude, Joy, and Seaton. And then the serious business of seminars began. ‘The mystery as to what went on there was soon discovered—more books, more papers, more talks, and more of your favorite professor. The Fall swept by with senior coffees, step singing, Sunday night discussion groups, sports victories, Barbie’s tennis cup, the riding meet, discussions on the Honor System, Rushlight’s renewed vigor, Pressboard’s publicity growth, Bobbie Kellner’s magnificent performance as ‘Thomas A. Beckett in “Murder in the Cathedral,” Wheatones performing, Murph and Angie in chapel, the choir broadcast, and Granny’s car, Napoleon, trolleying everything from Psyche speak- ers to laundry. With Christmas approaching, the Nativity Play with Mary Lou Scott as a lovely madonna and Sue Rippel an authentic Joseph brought the spirit to a wonderful height. Caroling and Lum’s ever glorious “Ave Maria” added to the festivities. The day of graduation grew nearer, and despite the frightening aspects of gen- erals, we came to look at the campus and all it meant to us more clearly. We saw in every familiar face and place a thing to cherish while it was still ours. ‘The air was full of all that we had learned of living together, what the world of Wheaton with Pan supervising had given us—the parties, the people, the clubs, the causes, the traditions—the lamp burned late and built them in us to carry into the larger world ahead of us. 23

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CLASS OF a3 PYVCSIOCT Lape ee Bo eran set Joy Merritt VACE=PTESL OCH anaes Elizabeth Garrigues SECT ELGTY = ee cee te alee Emily Renwick LCOSUTET = ee ee ee Cynthia Slossen SONG LLCO CT seer er eee Barbara Murphy AN looks over his final product, the class of ’49 and with a proud smile he | Bee himself on the back for a four year job well done. Our class has really proved themselves to him, and he knows we will make the world a little richer when we start making our own way. A song has filled the air as our four years passed like a dream, “They builded better than they knew” and with it the Spirit of 49 grew and grew like a small lump inside each of us as Janie said at the AA Banquet. This year was the culmination of all our friendships, all our achievements and all our talents. We realized the big jobs and responsibilities ahead of us as leaders of Wheaton, and with an air of excitement and determination, we took over our posts, Barbie Holden took her position of President of the student body, starting early to build the spirit of unity and interest on campus which was to lead to the cooperation of all organizations which characterized her leadership this year. She started then to create this harmony with House Chairmen Jan Waters, Sim, Sperry, Philips, Mary Lynch, Lois McFall and Neil. Heads of organizations Clegg, CA; Bird, Coordinating Committee; Joy, Class President; Janie, AA; Kathy Schmidt, DA; Ruth Hansen, News; Bev Brandywine, entertainment; Barb Bige- low, Social Committee; Jean Evans, NSA representative; and Bea Garrigues, Honor Board, all helped Barbie to plan for the year. And Pan saw that the class of ’49 was one which was really going to get things accomplished. an

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CLAIRE IRENE ANDERSON Chemistry Gloucester, Massachusetts CLARE May BABB English Baltimore, Maryland Mary E LizABETH BAKER BARBARA BAYNE Sociology Psychology Lubec, Maine Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan CARLEY SEVERANCE BARBER JUNE BARBARA BIGELOW History Sociology Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts Scarsdale, New York 24