James Madison University - Bluestone Schoolmaam Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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V ' ' Taking advantage of a sunn da . Liva Farrow convcrMr »ilh a friend. During ihc early Tall and the spring monlhs. siudenls spent most of their lime outside. Nate Brown, the drummer for the band Everything, spiritedly enteruins the stu- dent crowd at the Commons. The newly built area provided a suge Tor campus bands.

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I I was no mistake that 225 million years ago when an ancient ocean disappeared, two proto-continents would collide, thrusting new mountains up into existence. What was once an ocean floor would erode from the heights making a sheltered and fertile valley known as the Shenandoah; and, though the valley was enclosed, that it would provide thousands of people with a vista of the world, a proud institution whose magnificence was only surpassed by the beauty of its setting. Simply put, it was inevitable that such a rare location would be home to such a unique school as JMU. JMU ' s mixture of bluestone and brick gave a reconciled feeling of yesterday and today and a distinct personality to the school - a personality somehow partially dictated by the sccners of a beautiful valley along the Blue Ridge Mountains. The typical energy and love of life found in JMU st udents would be out of place on some campuses but on a campus of golden autumn leaves and white-shuttered bluestone windows peeking through evergreen branches, it was to be expected. It ' s the lure of the green basin, clear water and cliffs of Swit er Dam or the top-of- thc-world view of Reddish Knob. hcther playing the Peak Nine at Lakeview Golf Course, sunning on the rocky shore of I nion Springs or reading on the Quad. students took in the beaut of their surroundings, only to reflect it again in their smiles and vigor... he row houses the recognized rralcrnilies Top: A sludcnt studies outside Miller id sororities of JMU. Huving a house rovidcd the Greeks with a central loca- on to have meetings and gel together. Hull. The building housed man science classes, faculty offices, and the planetar- Opening 7