{"id":4837,"date":"2021-09-13T18:25:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T22:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?page_id=4837"},"modified":"2021-10-03T19:56:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T23:56:27","slug":"class-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/class-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Class History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif;font-size: large\">Read by Class President Mary Ginn Weinland at the Meeting of the Alumnae Association on May 22, 2021.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif;font-size: large\">Draft 1961 Class History<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif;font-size: large\">When we arrived on campus, the Soviet Union had launched Sputknik, Orval Faubus had called the National Guard to prevent 9 African-American students from integrating Little Rock Central High School and we were shortly to face the Asian flu and quarantine in the gym. We were welcomed by our Big sisters, learned the required songs which we had to sing on demand, and learned to live for milk and cookies. We were President Gettell\u2019s first class &#8211; i.e. the original class of \u201cUncommon Women.\u201d We experienced gracious living,&nbsp; and pay phones down \u201cdown the hall.\u201d&nbsp; \u201cSitting Bells\u201d was an important part of all of this.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif;font-size: large\">During our time on campus, Fidel Castro launched a revolution and NASA was founded to start the Mercury Project to take the first Americans in space.&nbsp; Alaska and Hawaii became the 49<sup>th<\/sup> and 50<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp; We were luck to hear in person: Robert Frost, Eleanor Roosevelt, John Updike, and Justice William Douglass (as graduation speaker). We celebrated 4 lovely Mountain Days, played bridge in the smoker, and met new professors and new friends every year.&nbsp; We experienced the first Father\u2019s Day Weekend with our own Diana as \u201cMay Queen\u201d.&nbsp; It was a time of travel and opening up our horizons.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif;font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif;font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif;font-size: large\">We spent our free time on campus navigating strict parietals and curfews, enjoying relaxing at the CI and Glessies, in the smoker watching the Nixon-Kennedy debates and organizing protests against Chapel and assembly requirements. We were agitating to let seniors have dorm keys (gasp!) which nearly produced a heart attack with the Dean! We were the first class to experience graduation in the brandnew Amphitheater.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif;font-size: large\">Finally the submergence in the traditions of Mount Holyoke produced four hundred young women to spread widely the dignity and idealism of their alma mater.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read by Class President Mary Ginn Weinland at the Meeting of the Alumnae Association on May 22, 2021. 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