Point News, 1967 June 1

              H A R T S m i E Q E OF MARY LAND
"ST MARY'S CITY. MARYLAND
V O L . V I I I , N O . 7 F IN A L E D I T IO N
Awards Presented
At Graduation . . . .
’66-’67
In
Retrospect
As the academic year comes to
a close, we look back and
remember. September 18, 1966,
saw the new Freshmen entering
their dorms. Before them awaited
a week of testing, meetings with
advisors, and registration. This
week, Orientation Week, had been
planned and organized under the
chairmansMp of Linda Kern. On
Friday, the Sophomores returned
and registered and the following
night, the Freshmen were capped,
beginning Rat Week, which ended
with Rat Court, on Thursday the
29th. The weeks passed and the
Freshmen had their* first taste of
six weeks exams and settled into
the academic routine. Halloween
was marked by trick-or-treating
in the dorms and elsewhere. In
late November, the Student Union
Board sponsored a Thanksgiving
dinner right before the beginning
of Thanksgiving vacation. Return­ing
from vacation, the students
began preparing the dorms for
Christmas. The week before
Christmas vacation was marked
with open houses in the dorms,
late night caroling, a choir recital
at which the Spirit of Christmas,
Kathy Heron, was presented, and
the first of the two proms. The
Christmas Prom was reigned over
by Francine Winkler and her court,
Michele Hecker, Kathy Warner,
Debbie Newman, and Donna Hud­son.
Vacation began December 16,
and students returned to S.M.C.
in January, pfeparing to take fi­nals.
Exams were followed by
Semester Break, terminating the
first semester.
Second semester began with and
unfortunate number of students
missing due to a large flunk-out
rate.
On March 16, the student move­ment
was born in the form of a
picket. This movement led to
easier communications between
students and administration, which
in turn led to a liberalization of
rules. Also in March, Samadra
presented it’s play, “ Comedy of
Errors” which then went on tour.
Kathy Warner was chosen best
dressed to represent S.M.C. in
a Glamour magazine annual con­test.
A “ Town Criers” concert
marked the end of campus elec­tions
of next year’s student lead­ers
and the beginning of Easter
vacation. April saw a three day
boycoot of classes which received
attention in Maryland and D.C.
papers.
The second of the major proms,
the Spring Prom, took place May
6th. Reigning over the Prom and
all the May Day festivities
was Peggy O’Neil and her court
Tillie Woodward, Pam Cecil, Deb­bie
Newman, Susan James, Donna
Hudson, and Apple Blossom Prin­cess
Linda Kern.
How It Appeared
After A Year
College is a puzzling progres­sion
of ups and downs, positivism
and apathy, solitude and brother­hood
. . . when the car moves out
of the driveway of the dorm and
down the road, you are not think­ing
of the education that your pa­rents
are giving you. The wave
signifies no more than a farewell
to the past three months, an in­terim
of irresponsibility. There
is time for reflection later, but
it still seems like summer. Just
two hundred and seventy two days.
Things are different. Different
faces, new people, a roommate,
being away from home. You had
forgotten how long fifty minutes
could be.
The learning experience is not
sterilizing. Those rare moments
found you pensive, deep in the fu­ture.
Occasionally, amid the rush­ing
and striving, the realization of
what it all meant would grow mo­mentarily.
Your Social Security
number and mother’s maiden name
before she went to college - fill
it in, the Orientation Committee
must know. All of these pressures
would dissolve by Christmas you
hoped optimistically.
Mondays through Fridays always
hit hard. If you had intimations
before, the doubts about the fea­sibility
of Sophmoritis dissolved
in October. There is not much
concentrated negativism here so
you comply and accept without
much protest, and count the days
until weekends, vacations and
graduation. You discover four
classes and no breakfast is not
good, and at three in the morn­ing
your eyes stumble over enig­matic
text phrases. Late nights
are a newspaper to draft, a play
to rehearse, a yearbook to publish
or just a term paper to write.
November informal grades
brought surprises and disillusions
to a few, and worries to the major­ity.
As Turkey Day became less
of a nebulous item of fancy and
more of a reality the clock kept
ticking away - only one hundred
and ninety five days . . .
December brought joy for the
vacations were in great number.
January and February were es­sentially
slow months. Eventually
it snowed ans snowed and snowed.
The gym became the happy hunting
ground of frustrated wrestlers and
other maniacs and the infirmary
experienced a sharp increase in
the demand for fine oaken canes.
The basketball season seemed a
little too long; but signs such as
“ Beat the Hell Out of Catons­ville”
livened it up somewhat.
Extroverts found an excape from
Preparations for exams duu
graduation began.
These were a few of the events
which made up the academic year
1966-67. Each person will have
many different memories of this
year at S.M.C. which he will keep
with him in years to come.
the concentrated winter apathy in
various work programs. But the
winter dragged on and on. For
most the snow fell, saw not mail,
the snow melted, saw not mail
and the snow fell again. There
was not much to alleviate the bore­dom.
Then came spring along with
proms, dances, picnics, the first
student movement, oyster boats
and the boycott. Tension rose and
there was no stopping it.
When you know you could not
possibly endure one more day of
classes, a mail box had been empty
for fourteen ■consecutive days and
even sleeping had become tedious,
it finally arrived in full glory and
reality - only two more weeks.
Its almost the end. Impatient
sophs hold graduation practice
early. Papers and tests are fin­ished,
one hundred days seems a
lot. There are not any tears, but
you could feel mixed emotions —
It’s a part of your life.
Samadra Elects
Samadra, the dramatics club at
S.M.C. recently elected officers
for next year. The President will
be Anne Reilly; Vice-President,
Julie Bounds; Secretary, Carol
Mancini; and Treasurer, Joyce
Oland.
The following awards were made
today at Commencement June 3,
1967.
For the Most outstanding work
in ART a $25.00 Purchase went
this year to PATRICIA GERTRUDE
URBAN.
To the Most Promising student
of ART The Betty Revel Wathen
Award was given by Mr. and Mrs.
Feliz Boone to PATRICIA GER­TRUDE
URBAN,
The student showing the greatest
amount of progress in the field of
Business, awarded by Mr. and
Mrs, Jacob Zimmerman in Honor,
of Mrs. Carman Nye Spencer was
JOHN ALLAN DORDAL,
The Margaret Eagle Dixon Eng­lish
Award given by Mrs, Adele
Dixon Woranka in Honor of her
mother went to PEGGY ANN
O’NEIL.
For Outstanding Achievement in
Home Economics the Maune Nye
Boner Award is given by Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob Zimmerman to JANET
LEE JONES.
The St. Mary’s Home Economics
Chapter Award to a distinguished
sophomore who will continue in the
field of Home Economics went to
MARY KATHYLEEN UNDER­WOOD.
For Outstanding Achievement in
Modern Languages (French) The
Judge Walter L Dawkins Award
went to DENISE SCOTT KIRBY.
For the Best History Student
awarded by Maryland State Society
United Daughters of 1812 was JOHN
ALLAN DORDAL.
FoTxOutstanding Achievement in
Mathematics the Mattie M. Key
Award went to JAMES LEWIS
BROYLES.
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Sept. 17
Sept. 23
Sept. 25
Freshmen Arrive
Sophs Register
CLASSES
Nov. 22 - Thanksgiving
Vacation
Dec. 15 - Christmas Vacation
Jan. 19- Exams
Feb. 1 - Second Semester
March 22 - Spring Vacation
May 31 - Exams
June 8 - Commencement
For Outstanding performance
and Progress in Music the Mattie
M. Key Award went to STANLEY
J. HOOPENGARDNER.
To the Outstanding Player on
the Men’s Basketball Varsity, the
Colonel Cloyd E. Boner, A.U.S.
Award was given by Mr. and Mrs.
Jacob Zimmerman to EDWIN
OWENS PICKERING.
For Outstanding Achievement in
the field of Dramatics, The Laurel
Langley , Memorial Award was
given to ANN JEWELL
NORTHAM.
For Outstanding Achievement in
Science an award was given by
the Major Wm. Thomas Chapter,
DAR to JAMES LEWIS BROYLES.
The award for Outstanding Char­acter
and Influence for Good in
Honor of Dr. and Mrs. Robert V.
Palmer given by Mrs. Susan
Greenwell went to DENISE SCOTT
KIRBY.
The Good Citizenship Medal
(Woman) presented by Miss Nan­nie
I’Anson through the Major
Wm. Thomas Chapter, DAR went
to MARGARETHE DOROTHY
THORP,
The Good Citizenship Medal
(Man) presented by Mrs. Louise
Jones Linden through the Major
Wm. Thomas Chapter, DAR went
to MALCOLM RICHARD VAN
KIRK,
The Best-All-Round Wo man Stu­dent
awarded by the Alumni As­sociation
went to PEGGY ANN
O’NEIL and PATRICIA ELIZ­ABETH
NOELL.
The Best-All-Round Man Student
awarded by the Faculty went to
JOHN ALLAN DORDAL.
Orientation
Planned; Baker
To Lead
Women
As the 1966-67 academic year
comes to a close, preparations are
being made to welcome next year’s
Freshmen who will be entering
September 17, 1967. Planning
Orientation and Rat Weeks are the
Orientation committees in the two
dorms. This preparation will in­clude
letters of welcome, greeting
of students and parents when dorms
open, helping with registration and
formulating Rat rules.
In the Women’s Dorm, Chairman
Ann Baker is working with mem­bers
of W.A.A., Women’s Dorm
Council, Yearbook and Newspaper
Editors and all other women who
hold major offices on campus.
Men’s Dorm Council, M.A.A.,
S.G.A., and Sophomore Class of­ficers
constitute the Orientation
Committee in the Men’s Dorm.
Final
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