Wilson College - Conococheague Yearbook (Chambersburg, PA)

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tumn of 1954-armed with silver napicin rings and hiacic gym stocicings. One of the opening chapters is caiied 'Too Much Green, or How to Decorate a Room., There are notes on stunts, on ice-skating, hig sisters. ietters from home, and hygiene writtens. Certain person- alities ioegin to emerge from the ranks, although aimost ali of them are atfectionateiy caiied 1Roomie., Hin Part II the piot has thickened consider- ahiy. New recruits try to outwit the regulars at the annual Dummy Rush. They sigh en- viousiy as they drape themselves over invisihie hannisters at Prom time. The militant tone is kept up hy continual struggles for and against the eariy kings of Rome. Some go for a joy- ride with Xenophon. At the end of this part they attempt to maice a daisy chain hut it rains. uNext you see the young authors in a rather grown-up stage. Many of them have become big sisters. They taice advanced courses, and sit near the front in chapei. AH through this part are a iot of teas, parties in the room across the hail, horrowings of lecture notes, hysterics over negiigent Prom partners, amassings of quantities of hooks, ancient term papers, pii- iows, odd spoons,- 'KAnd in the iast you see them in caps and gowns racing chapei-ward at 8:25 A. M. There are stiii the impromptu gatherings around the fruit-cakes from home. The ice stiii lures them away from ethics and philosophy papers. The suh-piots are endless'-there are at least eighty- six of them! This whoie iast section is iiiied with pians and amiaitions-some realized, some just hegun-and a wonderful sense of heiong- ing, and a curious unrest at the thought of inevitahie separation. Yes, I am sure there are a few tears on the pages near the endwn The iihrarian iooiced at me thoughtfully for a moment. Hvve have a hook iike that, she said, 'shut it is in manuscript form as yet. I believe the date of puhiication vviii he June 14, 1938. If you want that-fu I had forgotten, you see, that the hook had not heen quite completed, that the sojourn had not come to a final end. So I tooic the uneven stack of sheets giadiy and went away to pore over them again. ALBERTA E. LANG.

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY. . . The History of the Class of 1958, pleasefx I announced to the expectant student behind the librarians desk. By Eighty-Six Seniors. ltis a new hook'-just outf, Oh-I donyt think that,s. on reservef, she said slowly as she came hack after a moment having Mac Iverys Society under one arm and Fagnanfs Primer of Hebrew under the other and regard- ed both doulotfully. No,', I said, Hthese are fine, but they aren,t comprehensive enough. I want The History of-In 'Just what sort of hook is it?', asked the librarian, who put in an appearance at exactly the right moment. nYou've seen it around, I know! I cried. HIt,s a story of a four-year so- journ Ioy the eighty-six surviving so- journers. The scene is laid at Vvitson College and the surrounding country- side, and the action is mainly con- cerned with the doings of a horde of freshmen who marched up in the au-

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Charlotte Alohot Flora B. Acheson lVlary VV. Adams lVlary Anne Amhler Dorothy tl. Andrews Henrietta Andrews Josephine lVl. Andrews Ann E. Ash Elizaheth M. Asselin Elise Balcer Berry Barey Jane C. Beers Helen Elizaloeth Blaclc Adelaide Bornmann Edith G. Broclc Katherine V. Brow Mildred Ruth Brown Jean S. Camphell Barloara Chamloers Gertrude Christiansen Helen R. Chubb Lucille Cleeland lVlary Jane Cline Elizabeth L. Coates Julia M. Coleman Mary Ruth Comer Constance F. Crahh Eleanor J. Cule Rosemary Culp lVlary Davis Vaughn Diclcson Jane A. Donnan Florence Dunn SGPHOMORES ident ...,..... .......... F LORA Ac SO we President ......... ,........... B ETTY Gi: I y ..,,......, KfXTl-IERINE FARR G .............,RuTH TRO Alice Anne Elsey Dorothy R. Erriclcson Kathryn Faringer Frances Findley Jean Forrest Lillian B. Gallagher Marguerite L. Gay Margaret E. Geilo Elizaheth J. Gemmel Louise Gipe Jessie Louise Goehring lVl. Hunt Hardinge Ruth H. Harlcins Virginia E. Hatch Dorothy Helzel Betty Higgins Elizaheth Hodges Janet E. Hollinshed Grace Hoover .lane D. Howell Kathryn E. Hyde Katherine A. Jellleris lVlargaret Jenlcel Elizabeth G. Keiper Helen Jane Keller Kathryn C. Keller Adaline Kepler Suzannah Kohr Mary .lane Kopp Helen Lewis Wlargaret Light