Macalester College - Quid Nunc Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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Mac to Nl i the Caravan-ers Were welcomed and entertained hy Felipe Beraza, Macalester Twenty-one breath-takingly exciting days in Mexico may sound like a line trom a travelogue, hut to 46 Macites it became a reality when they drove in an ll car caravan to Mexico last August. Staying in groups of four or six in Mexican homes, graduate now teaching at the University of Mexico, and many other friends of the college. Popocatepetl, La Mujer Dormida, Xochimilco, Taxco, Acapulco, names formerly associated only with songs or stories, took on a new enchant- ment of reality as the Caravan-ers visited them. EA Upper left-Car certificates and official papers must be in order, so Dorothea McKee, Fritz Bolton, and Jerry Hooker get an OK Mexican border ofticial. Upper center-What vvon't ht on the inside must go on top. Gene Becker and his wife, Marge, reload after border inspection has been passed. Upper right-Felipe Beruza and a small Mexican senorita greet Miss Grace May with a ot roses at the outskirts of Mexico City. Side center-Margaret Uppgren and Maxine Houghton pause to rest in the patio of EI at San Angel near Mexico City. Lower left-Xochimilco, with its floating gardens of orchids, gardenias, and carnations, provided remembered Sunday afte-rnoon's entertainment. Macites go down to the flat-hottomed boats tor the tour. Lower right-The entire takes over Tom Simpson's Outdoor Restaurant high in the mountain at Jacala on the way to Mexico City. 22 from a the car bouquet Carmen C1 long caravan

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RIGHT: Even the newest building gels its share of the campus fall house cleaning. Here ci Workman paints The door of the library. The noteboard had to be enlarged too . . A familiar situation, and no doubt CJ familiar excuse. Harris Johnson and Joy Cron are on the explaining end, while Miss Marie Moody, who has charge of chapel and convo cuts, listens. v ..- . .,,., 7 77,777 . ,,. Wedes, oncl Keith Rose all catch up on their correspondence. Notes lead to meetings of all kinds. Here reliving August's Mexican Caravan are Prof. R. A. Moore and Delores Rcuschnof, looking at one of the caravan's photos, while Prof. Gordon Harrison, Shirley Strom, Margaret Wunderlich view some colored slides taken on the trip. The meeting brought memories of the Mexican trip . . . 21

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Back on the Mac campus again . . . ABOVE: The length of the walk between Kirk Hall and Old Main seems I to vary with the seasons. A brisk January day finds students hurrying to and from classes, but on a warm fall clay Edythe Olson, Mary Jane Bottemiller, and Maxine Amundrud stroll leisurely along. LEFT: Workman rush Bigelow Hall to near-completion despite shortages of both labor and materials. Wallace Hall is i1 the background. ow let's take a look inside the dorms . . . 23