William Paterson University - Pioneer Yearbook (Wayne, NJ)

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Play Day? fCheer up, we did have a swell time, anyhow, on that boat ride to Indian Point., What! Don't tell me we're Juniors already! Gee, where did all these l'kids come from? QOh, they were the accelerated students who joined with us and almost doubled the size of our class.j as wk as as THE ACCELERATES REMINISCE, TOO-OUR FROSH YEAR Oh, horrors! Who can SHE be?-no makeup, burlap bag skirt, blouse worn on wrong side, pigtails with no pompadour, pillow cases for carrying books, arm in brightly colored sling, lipstick plastered on forehead, sandwich signs bearing name and high school, two different shoes and stockings . . . that's enough! Say no more!! It's a description of one of us girls during our Initiation Week. ak if an as Recognize him? fYes, there were such things, THEN!j-had his hair parted in the middle with ribbons holding back each side, full mask on fmakup to you!j, wearing small tea aprons and pajama tops, green crepe paper streamers decorating his knees, one ladyis stocking and one sock, and wearing earrings. He's College joe-alias one of our boys as a Frosh,' at State. How simply lovely those big brothers and sisters were!-they were great at finding pleasant things for us to do - supplying them with candy, carrying books, buying lunches, singing songs and reciting poetry, etc. Those of us who survived that hectic week of initiation attended the Initiation Dance. ax: an wk wk Soon after initiation we were really getting acquainted with each other- crowding into Harry's between classes-spending week-ends with each other. QLoss of sleep on those week-ends.j as :se wk wk Believe it or not, we had crowded classes that year-over 100 in a class. Western Civ class was realy crowded. fRemember how the good-looking Charlie Hut fnot Vanj johnson used to distract the attention of all us girls when he strolled in late-which was often.j ar ac :r as Our class meetings were held in the assembly because of our size. The very friendly Miss Abrams was our adviser. Howie Russell was our presi- dent until he left for service with the Merchant Marine. Vice-President Piazza took over with his favorite saying, Let's have an informal meeting. fWe usually did., ae as :ie vi: , Our class put on a victory program for guest night. Fine production- directed by Bogert and Schwehm. ik ae :ie ar Ah, spring! And spring fever! Our campus was filled between classes and during lunch hour. Had many good times with the fellows in those days. Took pictures often. Took nice walks to East Side Park to watch State's baseball games. Girls in class went with team to Fort Hancock for a game with the soldiers. Soldiers rode us down from Battery Park to the fort that day. Returned up the bay that night. fMoonlight riding on a boat is SO nicej as wk wk ae We frosh girls came up into the world when those big brothers from initiation days decided that we were grown up enough for dates. Had 43

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llzdfaen W OR ' ' 3 6 OUR FRESHMEN AND SOPHOMORE YEARS Once upon a time'-no, this isn't a fairy tale-once upon a time, four long years ago, we entered P. S. T. C. What a let down! No longer were we the top men as we had been in high school. We were poor little frosh all over again. Poor is no word for it! By the end of the week we looked worse than poor, Big brothers and sisters saw to it that we followed their instructions to a T --no makeup, pig tails, and burlap bag skirts. Climax- ing this week of fun ffor the Sophsj was our march through Paterson into town. Those Sophs still weren't satisfied! They stopped at the post office and after much?? deliberation decided that the post office steps needed a cleaning. So-out with the toothbrushes! Scrub, a, rub, dub! Oh! My back !--Off again-on to the city! Forward march! That parade was one way of getting people to look at us !---The week following our initiation was a sad one! After all-who can be happy when broke! It took all of our dough to feed those hungry upperclassmenf' ak as ak as Our class put on the annual frosh frolic held on Hallowe'en. Remember that Old Maid School Teacher portrayed by Miss Adams? an Pk as ae We became big shots after we made a name for ourselves. Know what did it! You remember! It was our presentation of Swing Is Here written by Felix Shagin! How hard Skip Klein worked to direct it! Bang! Crash! Oh, that was only a broken spring! The cars of Skip Klein and Stuart Benjamin held many heavy loads on those nights after practice. wk vp as ae T-E-A-M-Yea! Team! Oh, man,! what a basketball team we had! Wasn't Sid Brown a !'terror'! on the court? fYes, a terror for looks, too.j How about those sore throats the day after a game! Alice Schofield sure did a peppy job as a cheerleader. ac as ae as At last!! The end of our freshmen year! George Smigen four frosh presidentj handed over the gavel to the newly elected Sophomore president, Stuart Benjamin. Now it was our turn to give the welcoming party, our year to give out orders to be followed by those new greenies',. fLittle did we know that many of those frosh would take the accelerated program and catch up to us by the time we were juniorsj vs ac PK wr SOPH YEAR Remember how quiet some classes became all of a sudden? That was after we lost many fellows to the Armed Forces. They seemed to be attracted to the Air Corps and Navy V-12 program. ' ' ar if af if Because of the manpower shortage we called off the Soph Hop. Booh! Hoo! Instead we had a roller skating party and then joined with the Fresh- men class for an outing at Palisade Park. as as as ae Oh, that horrible weatherman! Why, was he so cruel to us on Shaffer -12

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loads of fun with them on the trip to Palisade Park, at the Roller Skating Party, and on the Shaffer Day boatride to Indian Point Qeven if the weather wasn't perfect that day. At least a few braved the weather and went swim- mingj :if as as Pk End of year. Already!!-Class was much smaller--many boys had gone to serve for Uncle Sam. af ak as :ie Vacation started in Mlay-are you kidding? What vacation-do you mean that week-end? Half of us ventured into the accelerated program and started summer school right away. We struggled through twelve hot la- 'borious weeks of study fand fun, tooj and before we knew it September rolled around. We jumped to the rank of being juniors. Bright, weren't we? as as ae af VUE REMQINISCE-TOGETHER QREGULARS AND ACCELER- ATESQ JUNIOR YEAR To unite or not to unite? That is the question! Regulars ask, Shall we have those accelerated 'kids' with us P - Oh, well ,why not? as a: :ie ak Who's the president? What a SILLY question! Who do you think- THE,' male-Nick Romanski. Many a sympathy card did he receive-no wonder-managing 32 girls is no fool's play! as as as wk Then came the acquaintance with many repeated phrases: Ready for standing-1, 2, B. Now here we have a problem! North of 60. -fLet's go there, girls.j You must always erase the boards straight up and down. Watch how you raise those shades. Let's have some air. This room is like the 'Black Hole of Calcutta. Read the assignment back to me-you left out an :r as as a: Schwehm and Bogert proved to be friends in need. Spent lots of time tutoring the rest of us to pass Mrs. Mloneypenny's music course.-Harmonic scole, melodic scale, etc. QI give up., ik vs as as Oh, yes-that Palmer Method! just lead me to that guy who is respon- sible for all our troubles. I, 2, 5, 4, 5, 6, slide paper. -Oh, that familiar phrase- Will I ever, ever, ever pass that penmanship ? 1: af ak as Then came that progressive education idea in Dr. Unzicker's classes. Well-enough said about that! Units! Units! and MORE Units! Don't you professors ever get tired of reading our papers? :ie ac wk Pk The class ring. . . Which shall we have? fWe almost needed a first-aid kit at those meetingsj .... Do you mean to say that welve finally agreed? Hurrah! as ae ae af Now who's carrying Dr. Baker's picture around? Oh-so it's you, Bigg and Gehringer. Sigh-who wouldn't? i 44