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With a burst of creative construction, the present Senior Class, in the spring of 1958, began to lay foundations for its final year on the "Hill". Combining cooperation and spirited endeavor, the class courageously set to work on the Junior-Senior Prom and the Junior Follies, two maier landmarks of the college year. From the realm of ideas, "Prudence Grunion" was built in follies fashion; from crepe paper and chicken wire bloomed a Hawaiian Paradise. A late April found the campus turning green, while sunbathers acquired varying shades of red and bronze. Spring fever was much in evidence, amateur athletes vied for a spot on the tennis courts, and young men developed an increased interest in young women. The stag line migrated from the gloomy depths of the Rec Hall to the sunny curb outside, a better vantage point for watch- ing the girls go by. Outside the Grille, tables blossomed with bridge games. Work of all sorts was regarded as the cruel- est drudgery. Teachers lectured to sparsely populated classrooms, while librarians found themselves governing an empty library. A few enterprising individuals did manage to com- bine studying with the great outdoors, but in most cases the last few weeks before exams were spent in a siege of inspired and remorseful cramming.