There were no sorority houses in our era, so we all lived together in the dorms where life was quite strict by today’s standards: no room visitation, very early hours, no Bermuda shorts, no alcohol (my Pat O’Brien souvenir glasses were confiscated,) and many other–in retrospect–foolish rules. However, we managed to have a wonderful time being Tigers, where “stately broads and old magnolias shade inspiring halls.”
My wonderful roommate, the late Mary Jo Monsour Naus, was responsible for LSU celebrating the Mardi Gras holiday. She went to President Middleton and pleaded our case, saying that people from all over the world come to Louisiana for Mardi Gras and that LSU students couldn’t participate because of classes. She won her case and in 1955 we had a Mardi Gras holiday. And we went! Too many memories to have a favorite but Mary Jo was a part of most of them.
–Anna Moseley Osborn, ‘56