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The Gold Bug, Sept. 28, 1956 The Face Of The Statue More Poetry ... A Short, Short, Short The following poem, written by B, FLORENCE A. FAY formed the neck and I could not help Flo Mehl, bespeaks the plight of the to the Thoughtfully yet without the slight- but see the first linesxcf the jaw as young lady who, as a martyr permits cause tourists, of pleasing est doubt, I walked upward to the I forced myself to look away. herself to wile away the summer in My long black robe was heavy and MEMBER ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS door. I knew the door and wanted to the stern chair painful to my back. a white uniform, working as the hire- away. turn It was heavy mahogany SnbscriptiOD Price $2.00 Per Annum and carved with living figures of men As the mist returned I did not need ling o~ a restaurant rather owner or hotel frustrating in the operator, and women, and all other thirlgs that to hear the voice that asked, capacity ~f waitress, first class. there are in the world. "Did you see the face of the The door opened and something statue?" IF FOR WAITRESSES bade me sit in the chair. It was a (with apologies to Kipling) stern chair such as I have seen in If you can keep yom' mind when all church beside the alter. My eyes were Prose By ... about you drawn to the deep window just t omy Are lofting thf!irB and blaming it on left and I gazed out. There I saw Marianne Shears you, . the liquid blue-white mist shimmering If you ca.n stand by your order though and flowing in sea-like movements. cooke doubt yOl~ Welcome Frosh Recreation Hall Slowly the vapors melted and I saw lege year we present with wide a new And tldmite THEIR mistake wa.s made fi,rBt iBBue of the col- In thiB our him standing by the clear pool. Yes, contribu.,tor to the GOLDBUG. Mari- by you! There is something about each new Widespread complaints concerning there were stones at his feet and thorn If you ca.n talk but not keep custcm- class which makes one feel old in one the failure of the recreation room to hushes near about him. There were anne Sheore, oj, fifty-niner, is one of ers waiting, sense, because the repetition of new be opened promptly for the conven- mountains too that sometimes hit the 8e'Veral 01~ our campU8 who 'mOdeBtly Or bore them while their food grows freshmen classes over the period of ience of the student body seem to he light. But he was young and new, and spend half of their college careers cold, four years ,gradually brings to the misdirected toward the Student Gov- • there was fine moist clay by the pool hiding talents. But evtm hiddsn tal- If you can cany heavy tra.YB without minds of seniors the somewhat start- ernment Association. The truth of the for him to mold with. ents will find their way into the open. debating ling realization that they are not situation roughly is this: I watched him begin the statue. For th,i!J we of the GOLD BUG aro Whether he will tip 01' not when food eighteen anymore and that before too grateful. We hopf! that IIfariannf! will iB doled, much longer they will be shifting for Last spring the SGA voted t~ close :~;~~~a~h:t~:~; ::;'~o~~~ i~:~g;~:~ continue to write and to offer future If you can carry heavy (;raws without themselves--or for the United States the rec hall during ~e summer ees- away. _Then came the firm slender oompoBitions to our paper a.nd its dropping, army-in the great outside world. sion because, first of all, no one in toes, tapering and strong. The pure readers. And emile as if yO~t're hONing lots of But, at the same time, you watch ~~th;r~;:t:~~dc:.e :~I:r::~oO:;,ibl:h~~: clean arch and the gentle ankel. I PASSING FANCY fun; - the hatching of embryo intellectuals was some feeling that possibly 'the ~~:e;,is b~:nt~:yShs::net:e 0~~1~~ ;~~~ Jerry had first noticed her when he If you can work t6n hours without only so many times before gradually, stepped on the escalator to the second stopping in spite of innate cynical tendencies, ~~i~~i1~s ~::::;~:ed o~f ':o%~m~~~~~;~ ~;~:o~~d Pdei~;!~ i;o::S s~:~~~e ~~~ floor and she stepped on the down A nd still go out whm~ you are done: you begin to develop a'strong confi- escalator. He was going to the stock- If you can wa.ke at dark, dim hours dence in the American way of doing :~;hth~::aie dt~!r;~;v~~:denCy- the knees were good and the clay room to get the shampoo for the spe- , early things-and in the American educa- cial Hair Care display he was doing. And wait on ta.bles like it WM day; tional system. To make a tedious expl~' ~~ig:: ::;:l:~:d ,,;~h t~:\r:~~ ~~: He hadn't realized he was staring If you can cope with people nice or This is the way it has been this short - and slightly less tedious - strokes were firm but he hurried so. until he had to turn around to keep . surly autumn, and as we note with some during the course of the summer the. And the sholders, they were becoming his eyes on her. The blue suit fit her And never answer back to what they amusement the process of "another rec hall was opened without the per- narrow as if the clay were shrinking. beautifully and the small, practically say- freshman class getting adjusted to a mission or knowledge of the SGA or The arms made me sad, and at the non-existent hat sat squarely on her If you oan keep yourself from being college attitude, there is a kjnd of any responsible members thereof, and sight of the hands I wept. At last he softly curled hair. She was carrying nervoue satisfaction. It is a satisfaction which the fears of the association took no some carefully gift-wrapped pack- When a hund'Ted people storm the begins with new and awed and en- time in materializing. Dear Freshmen •.. ages and she seemed completely un- floor thusiastic faces, and it is a satisfac- Resultant of this, the pool table aware of him, engrossed in her own And Btill give quick effioient service tion which ends in the methodical, must be re-covered, and according to Dear Freshmen: private thoughts. fwhen they are joined by six dozen workmanlike, and surprisingly ef- Larry Hall, other minor repairs must The calander pages marked June, He watched her and then he saw 'mOrel ficient beginning of another year. be made before the rec hall is suitable July, and August flipped over with her no longer an unknown girl in a If you can fill creamers, -butters and We feel that this will be a good for the full time occupancy of the amazing speed and with them went blue suit heading down into the whirl- all tha,t. class, and we fervently believe that student body. the summer. Now students new and pool of people that swirled among the And in the bargain sweep the floor Western Maryland College will be a old are knee deep in another Western counters, but waiting for him to call too, rewarding experience for each of This, then, is the situation. The Maryland September. The nintieth for her. The blue suit became a cloud If you can serve deBBf!riB and never them. We promise that it will be far behind the scenes story is more illum- convocation" has called professors to of pink lace and net and when she get fat-- from easy, and there will be times inating. The college provides an ap- lecture stands in Lewis, Main and pinned on the white orchids he had Because they a.re restric"ted to you! when gradUation may seem awfully propriation for the SGA, from the Scienc~ Halls, a~d the management sent h~ was enchanted by her radi- If you can work eight hOUTS without far away. (There are seniors who student activities fund, of $150.00 an- house IS full of new managers plus anee. She was smiling at him and she compcWlation still suffer from the same feeling.) nually for the maintenance of the rec ten roomless coeds. The blotters on took his arm. And be furious but appecw quite cool But, as President Ensor has summed hall. The sum is to be spent for the our desks are green but other than And the white orchids were no Because you've got a wusy station-- it up,..!.'In terms of months and years purchasing of new equipment, up- that life on the hill seems much the longer on her shoulder but had become Why then.,--1/oU are a waitreBB, yOl~ graduation is really very close, and keep, and periodic redecorating. The same to those of us who know it. shy and delicate lilies of the valley in fool! the four years will pass all too quick- SGA now faces the necessity of mak_ But there are among us some who a circle of lace and shining ribbons. -FLO MEHL ly. ing several major expenditures from do not know the ways-and wiles of Streamers fell in a pale cascade from OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND "In terms of what will happen to this $150.00 which would never have our Alma Mater. It is to those _ the bride's bouquet to touch the hem Summer, 1956 _ each member of the freshman class, been necessary had the college com- those of the wee yellow caps and the of her gown; all was soft and pure however, 1960 is farther away, be- plied with the original SGA decision singing voices that this is addressed. and all his. She smiled at him and Miss Adams Tours cause into this relatively short span to keep the ree hall closed during the Yes Freshmen, we mean you. Per- they stood side by side. S. COL. (CONTINUED of time a multitude of new experi- haps you've heard so many of us tell- Once again he saw her in the blue pleted their FROM PAGE requirements. 5.) degree ences will be packed." It seems, in the light of the circum_ ing what is and is not here on the suit and she was hurrying up the However, the teaching shortaE'e in It is a relatively short span of time, stances, that the college can hardly hill that you would rather just calm walk, up the front steps and into the England is acute, much as it is in the and it will pass all too quickly. West- expect the Student Government to down and find out for yourselves. house. She put the packages away on United States. ern Maryland will give everything finance improvements and repairs on But since we real,ly want you to get the top shelf of the closet. Hurrying it can to all those who will have it. It equipment which is damaged and used to all of us as quickly as POl!- to the kitchen she put on her apron When asked her opinion of the will make the next four years forma- worn only because the college granted Sible, we compiled a list of things we and started dinner. American people in general, Miss Ad- was amazed she ams said the by tive in many ways, arid educational- permission to somebody-and we're think you ought to get to know. The presents were for the little boy "spontaneous generosity" of the peo- inspirational, too, and to those who not sure whom-to violate a decision That this is a small campus and if who came rushing into the kitchen. It ple. Everyone made her feel complete- seek, it will make these years decisive reached during a spring session of the you· are gOing ateady with someone at was strange that the child resembled ly welcome and at home. ones, good years, which direct the Student Government. home and had a date here last night, him so much and yet, when he smiled lives of those who live them to some- we all knew this morning so no sense he was wholly his mother's child. That After her stay in Westminster, Miss thing higher, better. We believe wholeheartedly that it is in trying to keep it a secret. smile came to him through all the Adams plans to visit. New York, Chi- But Beek and ye Bha.U find, and the duty of the college administration That fire drills in Blanch Ward at reflections and haze of his thoughts. cago, and possibly California. and that he had turned Improvements the seeker who looks long and hard to restore any unusable equipment a:oo A.M. are very rare and you are Then he realized that he was still on can know the true meaning of a to a satisiactory state of repair from not required to carry a wet wash- the escalator "find." It is every kind of rich re- financial sources outside the activities cloth when they do take place. to face her. (CONTINUED FROMPAGE I, COL. U ward, and it reveals to the finder the fund. And in the particular case of That Dean Howery always carries She really was smiling at him but Other repairs of a general nature sensation of being called "from dark- the rec hall, we believe that the col- that suitcase which contains a ham- it wasn't warm and welcoming as in have taken place. The interior of ,ness to light." lege should consider the dictums Of mer and a flashlight for use during his misty, romantic dreams but polite Albert Norman Ward has been al- The Editors of the GOLDBUG take the SGA inviolable, or take the main- weekend seventh green patrol. and puzzled, yet charming. ~The con- most completely painted. The walls of this opportunity to extend their own tenance of the recreation room into That William Holden is not on fusion aroused by his intense gazing McDaniel have been repainted, and real and sincere welcome to the class the same perimeter which includes campus making a picture, but that his showed clearly in her face. She looked the bathing facilities enlarged here. of 1960. dormitories and classrooms. double Dr. Griswold teaches Cultural away and stepped from the last step. The roofs of Blanche Ward Hall, :Mc- and Alumni Hall, Daniel have also , Bureau of Highways Anthropology-a course open only to Jerry's eyes followed the blue suit and been checked. for the Delta Sigma smart hat through the crowd until he upperclassmen. New quarters That thedining hall food is always With some interest.we note the con- NOTICE that way and we've tried but haven't saw them swept by the current of the crowd out of his world, past the blades struction of a large diagonal hump in yet succeeded. Also the waiter~ have of the revolving door~. ~::~:v:n~e:~e f~~~!~~:~~:1t~:0::;;~ the road in front of McDaniel Hall. If you have experience in the a secret society for deciding just how Stumbling over the slight rise of ment of McDaniel Hall. All four It is painted with yellow diagonal field of newswriting, or would long you are allowed to finish a meal. the floor at the top, Jerry was jerked sorority rooms nre now located here. stripes so that oncoming motorists like to learn some non-writing That a couple of those good looking abruptly out of his revery and he the may see it readily, and its purpose is facet of newspaper work, we can guys that flirt so proficiently in the went into the store room to pick up College Calendar chances are good that to slow them down enough so that use you on the staff of the grill are not eligible material. They the cases of sha:p~. * they do not speed through the campus are commuters from a placed called Saturday, September 29 area. We approve of this, since, log- VetViJle. DEATH OF A HERO Football, Penn. Military College, away. ically enough, in a congested area it is That "Red Dog" is not the campus His horse reared at the clash of Sunday, September ao never wise to drive at high speeds. mascot but a football player with a battle and he was taken by surprise. However, the college might have If you would be interested in broken leg and that Pogo-----longlive The edge of his red tunic flowed and Sunday School, 9 :30 a.m. Baker saved some expense if, instead of selling advertising, w"r i tin g his memory-has now gratduated into merged with the red stain of his blood Chapel poetry