Middle Tennessee State University - Midlander Yearbook (Murfreesboro, TN)

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mi M ' a THE PAST . . . THE PRESENT X DEDICATED TO THE

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Fifty Golden Years . . . Half a Golden Century so long a time . . . and yet so short. This edition of the 1962 Midlander is but another chapter in the passing spectacle of a college ' s life another chapter in the life of an institution. FIFTY GOLDEN YEARS of shifting, changing people who have come and gone . . . some that you ' ve never met, some that you will never meet, — and some that you ' ll never forget—, not even after another FIFTY GOLDEN YEARS have come . . . and gone. This is MTSC, for an institution is not building and books and grounds .... it is people and emotions and memories. This is MTSC and we have been a part of its progress and its growth during 1961 — 62. We have seen things that were once new ideas suddenly become old and ac- customed. We remember times that are hard to forget . . . student lounges that are now modern post offices . . . the mud and the ditches that gave way to buildings and streets . . . New teachers in the classroom, new faces, new plans, new parking lots, new cars in the parking lots, new people in the cars . and not enough time for anything — , especially sleep . these are the things that will blend and jell and become the accustomed . . . and the accepted the things that will make up the next Fifty Years . . All of us came here, — new to it all. But we pushed our colors and our ways and our ideas and ourselves into the pattern . and turned it . . and whirled it . . and the time flew by . . . sometimes with elation . . . or cheers . . . or grief . or worry . but the time passed on as did these things . . . and a pattern emerged that was the same after all . . . the same as any other one of these FIFTY GOLDEN YEARS . . and yet totally dif- ferent from any other . . . hard to hold onto; to pass on, or even to show to someone else, because it changed all the time, even as we touched it and held it in our hands .... like the strings of the world in our hands. 71-00 o8?

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The campus beautiful, an image of the college itself . , Viewing it is like viewing a well-loved face that is ever changing . . . A lingering look from the lobby of the modern library across the grassy expanse of the circle . . . past the traditional design of the Language Arts building . . . To the raw muddy cuts of Lyon Hall where a new dor- mitory shyly rises, almost embarrassed by the brashness of its newness that is a sharp contrast to the serenity of a campus that has seen Five GOLDEN decades slip quietly by . . . Only a look across the MTSC campus and one is aware of the Past . . . and the Present . . . and the Future. The old Ad building, a nostalgic reminder of the past, the early days of struggle to survive, . . . the early days when MTSC was only another ungainly addition to the rash of Normal Schools that were spring- ing up . . . when no one was really concerned about her future except those who had effected her founding. The new Fine Arts building . . . symbolic of the pro- gress that has made MTSC capable of rendering valuable service to those seeking knowledge . . . The new addition to Lyon Hall . . . representing the continuing growth . , . the ever increasing desire to make Middle Tennessee State College better . . . capable of rendering greater service . . . capable of being a greater institution. Or