William Jewell College - Tatler Yearbook (Liberty, MO)

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QJQVLEI' 3f0LL56 After Hilltop, we decided to take the shortest route to Parker for it was getting late and we were a huge collie sleeping in front of the door and walked into the wood-panelled hall. Mrs. Burns, CU ?...,,7 ........---f-...-Q57 ,.,,..... ......-- ---N ,., ......--..m..... .,..... .....-............1....,,.-.1:-v---fw-'v-ef.--,nv,:.,- D., . . --'- ar 1 1 rx if 4 tired, having covered a good portion of Liberty on foot. We were puffing by the time we reached Parker, newest addition to the list of houses for the accommodation of the large number of girls enrolled in the past three years. We stepped over 22 the housemother, invited us in and called Mrs. Keller, the dining room superintendent at Colonial House. Three of the girls attracted by the noise which the three of us necessarily make, came in to see what was going on and they consented to pose i' for our picture. About I5 girls live in the i gray and white house just down the hill from Colonial, and the two houses eat toge- ther, have their formal din- ners, and share the number of guests they can have. All the girls who lived at Parker this year were new- comers to Iewell and learned her customs, traditions and spirit together. We enjoyed visiting with Mrs. Burns, Mrs. Keller and the girls, but it was late, and they had to study, so we went up the hill to Colonial . . . A- ont col Mi HSI foc gir ere Hn am tall Prc ent ten sur in cal shc the em bac mt sec Ar . . .. . .. .. ...- . . . .... ...,.. .... ........-.,..--n.1...,... - - ,.,- 1--E--.1 --T - ld.-...Q , --.......- Q..-....-L .......-1 ,

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.,.-.-....1.......? F-9 fwg ,I inda and signs self- :und nenn 'gian con- : the lived i re- and had gtonw While lad-3 Le, so ay. gfifffop owe Hilltop House is just that, on a high hill, and so, far from the last stop, we had to get a hamburger on the way over, with onions, all three of us. We trudged on up the hill then, toward the Sigma Nu House, which like other fraternity houses has been turned over to the women for the duration. This year Hilltop has been home for about fifteen girls living there with Mrs. Nellie our picture, we thought, so we took it there. Hilltop is far from the campus but if this is a disad- vantage, there are other things to make up for it, its superb view from the second story porch, for instance, with the Missouri River visible on a clear day. lt's close to town, too, and that helps when the curfew is at eight o'clock and you just have to run down- town for a coke before you be- gin to study algebra or Greek. With a quick glance at our synchronized watches, we knew we must go on to our next assignment. We took two shots just to be sure, slipped the used bulbs into the vase on the piano, shook hands all around, wondered a little at the stunned expressions this caused and left. We were halfway across the hill to Parker before we realized that the combined force of the onions had been a little staggering. No wonder the invitation to return which we ac- cepted so heartily was given rather faintly. Oh well, the breeze was stiff and blew away the offensive onions, and there was Parker not far away. . . V ,Vai v-,- .,,v-uw,-.vi Klepper as house-mother. When we dropped in to see them they were grouped around the huge concert grand which made a nice background for 'L'w'gr1 21

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s Q42 .55 - . 3, f.. V Q: 5w 'f 2 , 5 -311 d urns, Mrs. mial ioise n to pose , the just vnial, toge- din- er of :d at new- irned and with and , and went Gofozziaf gfouse It was almost ten when we walked up the long curving walk to the friendly, pillared home which once housed Iewell's presidents, and now is the college home of 23 co-eds and their housemother, Miss Mary Mitchell, affectionately known as Spud,' to Iewell-ites for the past four years. We found everyone in that ten-o'clock-time-for- food feeling and some of the girls and Spudu were gath- ered around the coffee table to finish off a plate of chocolates and a basket of fruit, and to talk over the events of the day. Probably the session would end by singing the song writ- ten by one of the girls for the successful open house they had in October, or a long-distance call from Hlohnnyi' would cut short the vocals. The fire in the fireplace would burn to embers and the girls would go back to study or read, with the music of various radio stations seeping through the walls. Anyway, we took the picture urged the camera man to have more candy and an apple, then saw him to the door, thanked him for his trouble, closed the door and called it a day. Lights were still burning in many windows of Melrose, just down the slope and up another, and many lessons were just getting started. We had seen the fun and frenzy of dormitory living. 23