Looking Back: Fall 2013

This Freshman Week tradition lasted for decades, so we’re sure plenty of readers have a story to share about it. Write us at magazine@tcnj.edu and share yours.

Words by Tony Marchetti ’96, MA ’02

Before social media made it easy for first-year students to get to know other folks on campus, they had to do it the old-fashioned way: by putting on a beanie; hanging a placard around their neck that listed their name, hometown, and major; and heading out to collect signatures from upper-class students—which sometimes were given only “in exchange for ‘duties rendered,’” recalls Norie (Riddering) Burnet ’52, who sent us this photo. This Freshman Week tradition lasted for decades, so we’re sure plenty of readers have a story to share about it. Write us at magazine@tcnj.edu and share yours.