Minnesota State University - Katonian Yearbook (Mankato, MN)

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Mankato State College's Highland Campus is the living symbol of one Of the fastest growing colleges in the nation. And perhaps it would not be inappropriate to say, You ainit seen nothing yet. As the student body grows, the faculty is strengthened, and the facilities rise, the academic P1'0grams of the college broaden. What the future will bring for the college will depend on the program the Minnesota state legislature feels it should provide at the college, and without a doubt, as in the past, its decisions will be made in accordance with the needs of the citizens of the state. 1 Among the most modern facilities of their kind, the Highland Campus Physical Education complex of field house, indoor swimming pool, gymnasium, and Blakeslee Field was completed early in 1963. The new Indian football field is lighted for night action and boasts permanent concrete bleachers. Expression rom taqesu Eying the rafters, a Swimming class student, right, enjoys High- land's new indoor pool. A student zeros-in during a Physical Education Archery class. The Coliseum, below, is seldom unused, day or night. 11

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i -1 In a Valley Campus Health class students learn the structure of ourselves. Although the Valley Campus Physi- cal Education facilities are gradually being supplanted by Highland's ex- citing new complex, activities in both Health and Physical Education arc still carried on in the Valley Campus Physical Education building. A Social Dance class offers its own variety of movement from courts. ll Two hurdlers learn that the race is sometimes to thi M Swift- L I C t H o o 0 PW C P 10 '

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I Searing Center, above, Valley Campus dormitory for men, was occupied in 1952. Cooper Center, right, Valley Campus dormitory for women, is the oldest and perhaps the most picturesque dormitory facility on campus. IT'S CROWDED HERE . . . We Leam...How To limb Jack Otterness, left, and Don Barclay find a corner of Searing Center suitable 1 for a guitar Serenade. The eternal magic of boy meets girl is fostered hy the proximity of Searing and Cooper dormitories. From her lawns we watch or are seen. Searing dormitory's float in the 1963 Homecoming Parade reflects dormitories overcrowded from swollen enrollments.