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Drinking was frowned upon, and students risked expulsion by lighting a cigarette. Marriage was also out of the question. Those who tied the knot found themselves crossed off the enrollment pads. “It was a product of that day and age,” Helen explained to a stunned listener. “When parents sent their children to college; they didn’t expect them to get married; they expected them to get an education. Fraternity parties, then, as now, were a big social event, although, at that time, they were always chaperoned. "There were really wonderful dances,” Helen remembered, explaining how she and her boyfriend, now her husband, would attend six or eight fraternity houses to dance. "We danced to some pretty good bands in those days,” Helen said. One of those bands was Fred Warmg’s group. Helen explained that the dating scene was a bit different then. She said there was not so much em phasis put on “going steady.” "The probability of boys to girls • up there was such that there was never a weekend that you couldn’t go out,” Helen remembered. "You dated different people, and then you made your choice. Helen made her choice and married Frank Walton in 1929, the same year she graduated. Frank was in the florist business with his father and brother, and Helen was able to dig right in and put her degree to use. Frank had graduated from Penn State in 1927. The florist business, E.B. Walton and Sons, located on 926 East, near Kennet Square, is still in the family. Penn Stale has also seemed to stay in the family. Helen had a sister who was a doctor on the college staff. The Stephens dor mitory is named for her. She also has a brother-in-law and a grand daughter who graduated from Penn State. Her granddaughter recently received her degree in chemistry, i-A-V jß ?*l (Turn to Pace 826)
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