This is part one of the Junior class photos and part five of my ongoing series of pictures and transcriptions of the 1931 Bethany Daisy that belonged to my great grandma Frances Elsie Caroline Gustafson.
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JUNIOR CLASS HISTORY
ON SEPTEMBER 5, 1928, there arrived on the campus of
Bethany College a group of bashful, bewildered seekers of
higher knowledge. After wandering through dark halls, climbing
numerous stairways, and peering into a seemingly endless number
of vacant rooms, we were finally directed to the library to go through
the tedious process of enrolling.
The next event was to appear before the august Miss Magnusson
for our entrance examinations; everyone seemed to survive. Then
we were received with malicious joy by the "Ruf Nex" and upper-
classmen who for a few weeks would not let us forget that we were
Freshmen.
But it was not long until we became accustomed to the life at
college including the visits to the dining hall during chapel exercises,
cutting all unnecessary classes, and the duty of visiting the college
library either with a studious intent or merely with the motive of
creating some hilarity among the more studious upperclassmen.
Our career as a class during the Freshmen and Sophomore years
has been, with the exception of an occasional party, rather unevent-
ful. However, as a Junior class, we are interested in publishing the
best annual in the history of Bethany and also in entertaining the
Seniors at the annual Junior-Senior banquet.
Variety is recognized as the spice of life, and we endeavor as a
class to follow this axiom. We range in mental ability from Lucille
Holmberg to—no fair to tell a class secret; in height from Carl
Larson to—we'll let you decide that; in athletic ability from Kenneth
Monson, basket ball player de luxe to Floyd Peterson, "champion
sleeper" ; and in musical ability from Pete Moline, whistler, to Harold
Carlson, chief of the fourth-floor warblers.
But from the beginning we have been imbued with the Bethany
spirit and our loyalty has been shown by the number from our class
who have been on forensic teams, athletic teams, and numerous other
campus organizations.
Now we are nearing the close of our third year in the halls of
Bethany, and may we fully realize that from Bethany we receive the
influence that is moulding our lives and characters and may we
realize these benefits and express by our future lives in service to
humanity our true esteem of the ideals given to us at Bethany.
