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Show Renascence at the University 55 students saw each other sometime during the day. It was a friendly campus. Its social life was part of Madelyn's university experiences. Graduation exercises were held in front of the Park Building. Madelyn was thrilled to be invited to the Prom wearing "as a little Freshie," a two-function dress: "brocaded bodice and shimmering, steely-blue skirt, puffed, with sparkling little jet buttons blinking down the seams. Mama helped me coil my hair up on top, and I wore her long jet beads. We danced until tit ltr n il , no or IOi It 10 J! three o'clock."? Likewise, her sophomore year she attended this major social event, wearing a made-over-party-dress that was yellow com bined with lace and green ribbon. As Junior Class vice presi dent, she superintended the Junior prom in February 1922 dressed in a green Queen Elizabeth bridesmaid's dress with gold lover's knots sprinkled about. The favors were little silver vani ties. Harold Lawrence escorted her to the Senior Prom; she ate supper with the Friars (a returned missionary social group), danced romantically to "Mighty Lak a Rose," and received a silver locket. As a university student, Madelyn admitted to her diary that she was beginning to watch for The One. She was getting a lit tle anxious waiting for him and dissatisfied with her old LDS High beaus. Until HE came, she decided she must be less self centered, radiate cheer in the household, have more fun in her adventures, and not take associations too seriously. Laugh often and joyously. Do things, not just dream them!' At the beginning of her sophomore year she decided that, instead of letting con ditions govern her, she would tend to her mental, physical, and spiritual welfare. She gave herself a daily report: mental, 65; physical, 60; spiritual 40. Another day she was down mentally, but up spiritually. One Sunday at midnight she graded herself: mental 85; physical 70; spiritual 85.4 II Madelyn was elected a member of Chi Delta Phi, an hon orary literary fraternity, and wrote poems and plays for the campus literary magazine, The University Pen. A member of the |
