Winthrop University - Tatler Yearbook (Rock Hill, SC)

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rdctice Teaching i an orientation, moving off campus, a strange town, getting to know your landlady, getting up at 6:30, meeting the principal, hiding your jitters when you are introduced to the teachers, going to that first class, putting 90 faces with 90 names, a seating chart, calling the roll, writing on the blackboard, observing, teaching a little, homeroom, writing excuses, having great lessons spoiled by a class meeting, seeing raised hands, answering trivial questions, answering not so trivial questions, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch 5 days a week, the teachers' lounge, hearing the teachers gossip, student apathy, teaching a lot, grading papers, putting up bulletin boards, missing your W.C. friends, a student's smiling face, the high cost of groceries, discussing student problems, getting teaching hints, turning classes over to the real teacher. Saying goodbye, packing again, receiving an S ................. Mary Moore Senior

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Another non mauor opunuon about physucal educatuon us that ut us easy and all PEMs do us play Actually the Physucal Educatuon curruculurn us duffucult and tume consumun Also beung a PEM unvolves puttung up wuth a lot of junk ln any mauor besudes PE one can take fuve courses and get fufteen hours credut In PE one can take eught courses and get fufteen hours credut and stay un class all the tume Also PEMs are under a great deal of departmental pressure pressure to conform pressure to be on a team pressure to run for a class offuce pressure to look professuonal and pressure to be a teacher PEMs have to take an unbeluevable amount of PE courses and they are all taught by women Also the classes are composed of nothung but gurls fWell there are a few boys now but the department needs morey square dance partners are gurls cha cha partners are gurls waltz partners are gurls what a drag' However even wuth the burden of an unfaur along wuth beung a PEM the PEMs are a closer knut and happuer group than any other on campus There are several reasons for thus For one thung PEMs are always busy workung together doung somethung projects classes nught follues or sellung candy Also PEMs share common unterests un partucupatuon un and sup portung varuous teams Because thus group of people us so closely knut and so pressured to conformuty most people wont guve a PEM credut for beung a unuque person Underneath the muscular loud exteruor us a sensutuve person sensutuve to the needs of the mentally handucapped physucally handucapped socually handucapped and even Ordunary Joe Guve the PEMs a break for they are people too wuth real feelungs real emotuons and a hot date for Saturday nught by a PEM . . . . . . ' u I - 9' stereotype and other disadvantages that go

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tn. -4 N . ..r V l .-'23 . , I LY rf Kg,..,f' I Wan For some strange reason, my stomach felt a little queer as we drove to the back door of Bancroft. But my fears subsided somewhat as I saw the welcoming committee-tvvo maids to take all my luggage to the third floor. What I didn't know was that freight elevators aren't very reliable-as my possessions got stranded for nearly two hours! How's that for a welcome. As if to make matters worse, I discovered that I had no money, no identification, and no checks Qmy pocketbook was at homel. That really can do a lot for a freshman's ego- to think I had my head screwed on so tight that I couldn't have forgotten anything. Rooming with a best friend didn't exactly make things easy either. It's one thing to have a friend to visit, but to live with her? That can take a lot of adjustment-especially when your roommate's homesick and you're not! . , in-A,.,:.:,..i Tflgtlilji HU A 55 A ' 'A-s1iQ5g:'.1tLB2:7-1-L5,x'.P'