Woodrow Wilson Junior College - Profile Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Freshman A When seasoned Wilson politicos saw the ballots for the Freshman A class, they blinked unbelievingly. It seemed as though every Freshman A and his brother had decided to run for office. This interest, if typical of the class, is typical of the individuals who go to moke it. The Freshman A ' s elected Elaine Cohn, Elliott Gordon, Mary Hughes, Dean Later, and Al Long as senators. They also elected Robert Grieve, Ber- nard Mamet, Sam McDowell, Grace Rinkema, and Robert Walker as com- missioners. This interest in the Student Senate is matched by the part they played in activities ranging from the Swimming Club to the Little Theater. PICTURES AT THE LEFT (left to right): Bob Grieve, Grace Rinkema, and Sam McDowell.

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Freshman B The longer you stay at Wilson, the more interested you become. The huge college seems formidably new to an entering freshman. It seems like an unfriendly city of busy, preoccupied students, each intent on minding his own business and his own life. As a Wilsonite becomes acquainted with the col- lege, he begins to see things which, as a Freshman, were completely hidden. The social life of the college depends to a large extent on the friends he makes, and so after a semester or two he slips, almost without knowing it, into the stream of college affairs. Elsewhere in this year ' s Profile, the Sophomore A Class is represented. A fair percentage of this class turned out for the picture. The Freshman B class has 902 members. The Profile picture shows only thirty of these students. Only S c of the class! And yet, no one can soy that the Freshman B ' s are indifferent to college life, unconcerned with the activity going on around them. A lively race for the offices of commissioner and senator showed Wilson that this class was remarkably interested in the college. The only conclusion which can be drawn from the evidence is this: the Freshman B class has not yet learned how to act as a whole, a unified portion of the college structure. Because of the very fact that they are so new to Wilson, they hove yet to learn how to behove as an integrated group. Wilson isn ' t the only place this happens. Every college class the country over has faced this problem at one time or another. The difference lies in the atti- tude of the other classes to this one terribly green bunch of students. At some colleges a rigid caste sys- tem is so severely enforced that no one is ever allowed to forget for one moment what class he belongs in. At Wilson, you ' re green only once. From then on you belong to every class.