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

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--•lit unday, Jul 5?(5 ' , 1969 fifteen short years ago, Neil Ar set foot on the moon ' s surface. It was, indeed, a giant step for mankind. A man had traveled to the moon and back, and the potential not only for space travel, but for any endeavor seemed limitless. In February of 1984, a space shuttle was launched and landed at the same site — another first. Space technology will soon make it possible for an astronaut to leave the shuttle and retrieve broken satellites that need to be repaired. The moonwalk seems to be the base for future endeavors in al fields of study and experimentation, a spark that has ignited the rapidly fm f growing fame of progress. Virtually • every area of science, medicine, politics, and every as ct of human life itself, has been affected by progress. And whether it is good or bad, C-. Jmj : progress is here to - . stay, and it will show its face every place we go. Progress has . shown i|s best — side here at MacMurray. - MacMurray College has made great strides toward the advancementlof the college in anti cipation of what the future will bring. A new curriculum was de- ligned, and this year ' s fresh- men were the first students to use the Breadth Compbments, instead of the L.E.P. ' s used by the other classes. The old Fine Arts ' V ' f H t Building was closed, and the music and art departments joined the nursing department in the more modern and newly acquired Norris Building. Even the Theatre was w closed and productions moved to the newer Jackson ville Theatre Guild. These changes, and more, are moving MacMurray into the future, and the poPtential for even greater expansion in all spheres of college life seems as limitless as the possiblities for space travel after the moonwalk. The Tartan staff would like to dedicate this yearbook to the progress that has- been made, and will continue to be made, and to the future students of MacMurray College. I

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A Traditional Welcoi The Green Ribbon ceremony is a very spe- cial tradition at MacMurray. The tying of the green ribbon on freshmen women was started by the sophomore class in 1928. At that time, the freshmen women had to wear the ribbons from the beginning of the school year until Thanksgiving. In a defiant gesture, a band of freshmen women gath- ered together one night and burned their ribbons. The Green Ribbon ceremony has evolved over the years and today it is MacMurray ' s way of welcoming the incoming freshmen women. The wearing of the ribbons lasts for 5 days, and the burning of the ribbons, no longer a gesture of defiance, symbol- izes the initiation of the freshmen women into MacMurray College. All of the women who participated in this year ' s ceremony came away with a special feeling of warmth and welcoming. The 1983 Little Sisters sang the Mac- Murray Alma Mater, top. Annie Merner Chapel was the site of the Green Ribbon ceremony, middle. Sue Lamar tied a green ribbon around the neck of her little sister, thus connecting her to all Mac Women, past, present and future, bottom left. Sara Imthurn spoke of the tradition of Green Ribbon, bottom right. 18 Green Ribbon