Brigham Young University - Banyan Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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PICKING UP CARDS, a new freshman comes to the end of one long line. She has eliminated one, but still must try to find her way out of the building. CONFUSED BROTHERS, Dave and Dicic Terry, ponder schedules outside before being admitted into the Fieldhouse for Autumn registration. INSIDE FIELDHOUSE, students form thoughful lines as they slowly move forward to pick up registration forms. forming lines at registration The largest enrollment of students to ever attend the University received their first look at each other during Hello Week ' s Welconne Back assembly. A total of 8116 students from 28 foreign countries and 47 states of the union sat in separate sections to hear the University ' s of ficial greeting. Sponsored by Intercollegiate Knights and Y Calcares service units, the week was themed by You Gotta Say Hi at the Y. Incoming students received their first impressions of class life and university activities. The first dance of the year was held. Non Campus Mentis, was theme of the week ' s assembly which was held in the evening. After leaving the assembly, couples en route to the dance watched IKs light the Y on Y Mountain for the first of five times during the year. ATTENTIVE, Stephen Sorensen receives advice from Harry Hodson.

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DIRECTING 8000 voices, Craw- ford Gates led opening singing. COMMITTEE workers were, front row: Janis Hull, Mona Boyden, Joy Beckstead, Mary Decker. Back: Bryan Drennan, L ' Dean McCue, Mark Fullmer . . . hard workers all. WELCOMING COUPLE, president Taylor greets LeRoy and LaRae PeeL hello was the best word Brigham Young University became the largest church affiliated university In the ' nation in relation to full time students when the results of fall quarter registration were tabulated. A total of 8116 students registered. With an enrollment increase of 72% since 1950, the University launched into a new program of streamlining graduation requirements to handle the load. The increase has also resulted In a $16 million building expansion program. One healthy sign of the increase was that it was con- centrated In upper classes while freshman registration continued about normal in Increase. Registration pro- cedure at best is hectic, but necessary, as students check with housing, traffic, or counseling. Efforts to streamline the procedure were boosted when Dean Bliss Crandall was placed in charge of registration and assumed his duties as Dean of Admissions and Records. WELCOME BACK assembly is Univer- sity ' s official greeting to returning stu- dents, who are seated by home state or country in year ' s biggest grouping. 26

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SENIOR COURT justice was meted oi to frosh who didn ' t obey week ' s law CLEANING THE Y was required of male freshmen, who were given a secret key- word to free them from frigid dunking. welcoming bewildered frosh Frosh Week gave upperclassmen a chance fo look over the incoming freshmen as frosh went through their tradi- tional acceptance into the spirit of the University. Wear- ing whiskers, beanies and signs showing where they were from, frosh were easily recognized as they shined shoes or sang school songs at demands of upperclassmen. For those frosh who failed to comply with the arbitrary rules, summons were given to the annual Senior Court where punishment was meted out under supervision of the senior class. Male frosh who overlooked climbing to the Y to clean the mountain emblem were sought out and thrown into an irrigation ditch by vengeful members of their own class. An assembly and a dance climaxed the week, after which freshmen were considered to be fully accepted by the student body. PASSIVE FROSH paint each other at court. JOHN AND MARSHA in the unlikely form of Duane Hiatt and Richard Davis played for students on Frosh assembly. 28