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President SIG JENSEN Vice-president ART O'KEEFFE Secretory SHIRLEY JONES Treasurer JOANNA DOGGETT Historian SHIRLEY SNYDER Sergeant-at-orms KAOHLIN COFFMAN Front Row-J. D09gell,S.Jen,en, Snyder Sack Row-Coffmon, O'Keeffe Throughout our green years as underclassmen, dances, and formals with the Emmitsburg V-12 we of the class of '47 were few in number, but unit. We remember the faculty production of strong in determination to keep the flame of the Arsenic and Old Lace, which brightened the year. old W. M. C. spirit alive. During those war-grim Then came spring-and the news of V-E day winters of our freshman and sophomore years, breaking through the noise of the "Breakfast we heaped what coals we could upon the fire. Club" in the Grille. We thought with sorrow of As freshmen, we awoke every morning to hear the deaths the year had brought. Friends from the cadets singing "I've got sixpence", went to- home and many Western Marylanders had mode bogganing with them on the hill, helped them the supreme sacrifice - to them we are ever sponsor dances, and waved goodbye to them in grateful. the spring, as they left to join our brothers and We returned to our junior year with brighter former classmates overseas. faces, looking forward to a happier year-a year As "silly so phs" we experienced the grimmest full of homecomings. The Hill we had heard about winter of the war. There was little to be silly for three years was coming bock. about, but we made a noble cttempt to see that For our senior year, men, sports, frats, pep as- the freshmen were properly hazed and instructed semblies, formal dances-all hod returned. Hav- in Western Maryland traditions. We tried to be ing veterans back on campus was the vitamin gay while we worked, doing what we could by capsule our school spirit needed. The doss of '47 having sorority parties, informal Paul Jones entered with enthusiasm into the activities, proud 38