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FRESHMAN CLASS Armed with college handbooks, letters from the rec hall, bull sessions, collateral, cuts and our big brothers and big sisters, bags, boxes, chapel became significant words for us. We blankets and all the little things the handbooks made new friends. We learned to live, play, and stated we'd need, we embarked, a little hesitantly work together as members of 'the college com- for Western Maryland College in September. munity. Unfamiliar buildings and a host of unfamiliar Our beauties graced the Homecoming and May names awaited us, but in the process of orienta- Courts. Some of us starred in athletics, others tion we tackled the problem of becoming ac- academically. Talented members of our class quainted, and succeeded. were in constant demand. With the arrival of the upperclassmen we were Now as we look back upon a year full of new introduced to a new phase of collegiate life-the experiences, we have learned much, scholas- freshman "rat" rules. We wore beanies, endured tically, socially, and spiritually. Our goal is yet "air raids," made speeches and entertained the to be reached. Our individual dreams and per- whims of the upperclasses, until the victory over sonal ambitions are yet to be realized. Through the sophomores in the tug-of-war ended it all. the remaining years of our collegiate career, let's During the first year on the "Hill", the grille, look forward with confidence, class of "57."