MacMurray College - Tartan / Illiwoco Yearbook (Jacksonville, IL)

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Tradition Meets Change MocMurroy College for Women has a variety of traditions, some of long standing, many more recent, but one of the earliest and still most significant is the wearing of the green ribbon. In the colors ceremony freshman women, dressed in white, are given green ribbons. These they wear until the ribbons are burned in the green ribbon ceremony at the end of initiation, symbolizing the entrance of the freshman class into the life of the school. Class songs and serenades, class shirts and projects, the Navy-Army hockey game, are events throughout the year quite familiar to the Mac- Murray women. Near the year ' s end, after Honors Chapel, is one of the more solemn traditions: the senior class, in cap and gown, plants a tree somewhere on campus. It will grow and flourish as a momento of the seniors ' four years at this school. Changes have come — many changes in the last five years, but tra- dition remains much a part of MacMurray College for Women.

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Change Meets Tradition The founding class of MocMurroy College for Men graduated in the year 1961; of this group sixty percent went on to graduate school. The main social feature of the men ' s college is interdorm rivalry, which has been prompted by participation in intramural sports. Annually a tro- phy is awarded to the dorm with the most points accumulated in all the activities of the intramural program. Another kind of rivalry has arisen with the addition of the men ' s col- lege — one that is not as advantageous in many respects (but still a lot of fun). Since the men are not bound by customs of long standing, many of the women ' s traditions and social restrictions seem out-moded and over-emphasized to members of the new college. Many times strains of Mickey Mouse come from the men accompanying the women ' s songs in the dining hall. Maybe someday the men will start singing, or the women will stop.