Joliet Junior College - Shield Yearbook (Joliet, IL)

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W f- ' , ' ,mi ' - ww A Wu. hm . .wMm-utritiwvwwwvm-. 1-AWMWMMMNW ill i -, , i -Q ii, .Q i-2 l 1 , l il Agia ill - 6 xll lilf ,i i A - n -hx , Braidwood to Coal City, Gardner to Joliet, Lincoln-Way to Lockport, Mazon to Minooka, Morris to Newark, Plainfield to Wilmington - Over one-quarter million people in one thousand square miles constitute JJC District 525, a part of the statewide system recently established by the General Assembly. Fifi 1. -. u --,x ' . 1 Aerial view of JJC illustrates the diver- 'g sity of its rural-urban setting. Current- ir -. J, sg' ly housed in the Central High School building, JJC anticipates a campus of its own by 1970. . 1. . The JJC district's growth since 1901 has been phenomenal: fewer than fifty students were in the first class at JJC, serving only one small tu rn-of-the-century town. This year more than two thousand attended JJC from various communities: I I I I H N five thousand students are expected by 1975. l90I QWO PQNQSS 1968

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'WPIE owareiiiess 1 AH I I I ii i ii 1 ,1 1 l iv, J-, Q, ,i 'il M- i ',ii lg '-.., Q-v M, -L. 1 if Solid, enduring, with castle towers arching against the city sky: JoIietJunior College remains as a reminder of forethought, faith in an idea. ln 1901 they built fortheirchildren, and their children'schildren. ln 1968 those same children take up the idea, revised by time, and weld it into plans for an equally enduringfuture for JJC, soon to initiate construction of new quarters.