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Long Island Agricultural and Technical Institute—Farmingdale, N. Y.
VOL. XXIII. No. 5 October 20, 1952
SENIORS WELCOME FRESHMAN "CUM LAUDE"
Fresh Reaction
To Campus Life
As morning broke on Septem-ber
8, the class of 1954 rolled
out of their beds in various
towns and cities around New
York State. They felt as if the
world was coming to an end,
many would not see their own
beds for quite a time. Butter-flies
flew through many stomachs
as they marched in to get the last
home cooked meal.
As they arrived at the Insti-tute
between the hours of eight
and ten they marveled at the
size of this place which was to
be their home—a place of learn-ing
for the next two years. They
went through the much disliked
routine of registration and were
escorted to their various places
of residence.
The next day the frosh met by
a form of the Devil himself—
The Seniors! It was still the im-pression
of many freshmen that
they are put on campus just to
make life miserable for them.
In the days that followed many
freshmen would be seen pulling
weeds from the campus lawns
and walking the sidewalk, with
their pantslegs rolled up and
shirts inside out. One frosh was
even seen wearing a poster which
said "The Pittsburgh Pirates will
win the Pennant." Many disa-greed
with this.
Orientation began and the
freshmen began to get acquain-ted
with the seniors and their
teachers. They were shown ar-ound
the campus farm and were
surprised to see the large facil-ities
for agricultural work which
the school offers.
The Technical Division has
been presented with a new buil-ding
in which to carry on in-struction,
and this alone with-out
the many machines cost the
state approximately 3 million
dollars.
By the end of the week the
freshmen had learned quite tho-roughly
the handbooks and were
used to wearing their dinks.
They had made friends among
themselves and the student ad-visors
and felt as if they would
enjoy their stay at this large
O. H. Campus Student Council
This year's student body en-rolled
in Ornamental Horticul-ture
constitutes the largest O.H.
enrollment in the history of the
Institute.
With the strangeness that goes
with a new school wearing off,
the O. H. Frosh have begun
looking around, and making
new friends. A situation which
could cause a great deal of ill-feeling
between the male and
female element of O.H. Campus
has not arisen this year. That
problem being whether or not
the boys feel that the girls lose
their femininity while hoeing a
spinach fleld or slopping around
the green house. But the male
frosh seem to harbor no such
feelings, in fact, one was heard
to say, "Most girls look better
in jeans, and I like the way they
lock."
Last year's O.H. freshmen,
now the stately seniors, have to
their credit the construction of
a new tool shed in the Service
Area, behind the Greenhouses.
So the next time you Frosh are
in the vicinity take a look at
their work of art, and hope that
next year, as Seniors, you too,
will have something to show as
an accomplishment of the class
as a whole.
Good Luck!!!
place. Of course, the student
with barn duty thought differ-ently
when he walked into
cow barn and saw what was
awaiting him.
Weekly
The first edition of the Stu-dent
Council Weekly, called the
Hew and Cry, was published
September 29. The paper, which
will be published weekly, will
give a review of Student Coun-cil
meetings and activities and
also a list of club meeting dates
and special programs.
Any organization desiring its
announcements to appear in Hew
and Cry should contact the Stu-dent
Council or its advisors be-fore
Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. for
publication Friday.
The present Council members,
advisors and the Division each
represents follows:
Nicholas Poulos, Technical
Richard Gage, Horticultural
Ann McCaflery, Technical
John Lynch, Agricultural
Gerard Barton, Agricultural
James Hotaling, Technical
Rinaldo Poletti, Agricultural
Alexander Seaman, Agricultur-al
Rita Wicks, Technical
Tom Wood, Technical
Mr. Wallace, Technical
Mr. Oxman, Agricultural
Toothsome Affair
Last Monday night there was
a large family gathering over in
the Dorm 1 lounge. The Dental
Hygiene seniors were havin' a
party for their "little sister."
The whole affair was very
carefully and ingeniously pre-pared
with each big sister giving
her little sister a corsage; wax
This year the Freshman Ori-entation
had some added excite-ment.
Not only were they orien-tated,
but they were also hazed.
They of course had as much fun
taking it as the seniors had giv-ing
it out. While our hearts are
still light with the joy of being
back at school and our memor-ies
still fresh with dozings of
pleasant experiences of the care-free
summer days, "THE RAM-BLER
STAFF" would like to ex-tend
on behalf of the student
body, which we represent, a
hearty welcome to all those of
you who are new here.
We hope you will like it here.
We hope you will take an active
interest in many things other
than the regular freshman re-sponsibilities.
You will be the
richer for anything you do that
is above and beyond the regular
curriculum.
You have heard it before but
we think it bears repeating —
How much you gain from coll-ege
depends on how much you
apply yovu-self. By this I do not
mean you should "pound the
books" till you are blue in the
face. A college education does
not end when you leave the
classroom. Learning encompasses
learning how to live with other
people and in a school like the
Institute the individual can find
many things in which he may
take an active part: sports, dra-matics,
music, publications, and
almost any type of club imagin-able.
The Institute is a good school
and it is getting better. It has
come a long way in the past
few years and its future success
will depend in large measure, on
you.
We wish you all lots of luck
for a successful year at the In-stitute.
teeth, toothpaste, toothbrushes,
etc.
The party was livened by
some wonderful entertainment by
Howie Van Buren, Harvey Kap-lin,
Lon Metoon, and Tex and
his Mountaineers.
Punch, cookies and a huge cake
with "Welcome Frosh D.H." on
it, were served and thoroughly
enjoyed. As a matter of fact, the
hungriest freshmen will tell you
it was the best part of the whole
affair, but all agree it was a very
successful and enjoyable party.