Illinois State Normal University - Index Yearbook (Normal, IL)

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Aerial photography captures the spectacle of the combined Redbirfl Marching Bands as they form a block ISN U on McCormick Field flaring halftime entertainment at the Homecoming game. Normalis fred-up football squad topped Northernis Huskies by a 33-18 count in this game. Walks surrounding a memorial marker placed on the site of the building that stood for so many years as a symbol of the teacher education tradition that has prevailed at Illinois State Normal University. Homecoming was swept in this year by a damp, gusty Wind. Float-building time, planning sessions for receptions, coffee hours, the dance, and the play occu- pied much of the students, fast-Heeing seconds. The approach of Winter made many students buckle down With a determination to do Well scholastically, While still maintaining a full social schedule. Class- 26 Work during the day found a pleasant counterpart at night when students attended parties, dances, Enter- tainment Board presentations, club meetings, and the variety of activities that mark a well-rounded series of extracurricular functions at a University. A momentary breather came with the Christmas holidays. A beautiful Christmas tree lighting cere- mony, mistletoe-enhanced formal dances, and the ex- citing beginning of a conference-winning basketball season rounded out the year's end. The new year, with its seconds ticking rapidly

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Framed by the lighted front area of the Student Union Build- ing stands the tall fo' tree where a traditional treo-lighting cere- mony each year heralds the approach of the Christmas holiday. away, brought basketball back into focus again with its sister winter sports-wrestling, gymnastics, and swimming. YVith it, also, came another semester of classroom activity, plus specially-planned social func- tions. A one-Week break for hardier souls came with ISNU,s participation in the NAIA basketball tourney in Kansas City. Eager fans, numbering close to 300, cheered their HAC championship five. Soon, though, all eyes turned toward the end of the school year and the prospect of springls once more arriving on campus. XVith Warmer days and the Kzssmg neatlz tfzz' izzistletoe may be a pagan cus- tom but it is a pleasant one as this ISNU couple dzscoufzs during a Clzri,s'tn1a.s- formal.