Southwestern Louisiana Institute - Lacadien Yearbook (Lafayette, LA)

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The Best Day Of Our Lives Was Graduation Day . . . ? Does it EVER, EVER change?! Blue-framed glasses decorated with glitter and bobbie socks may be out, but, as the photographs reflect, graduation today is merely a carbon copy of 1930 graduations, and, who knows, U.S.L. students may have been forced to attend then also. So, to make this copy a little more informative than the usual As we each go our separate way ... stuff, a list of the progression in enrollment and curriculum addi- tions at U.S.L. is here for you . . . 1930 Undergraduates Liberal Arts — 26 Education — 54 2-year Teacher Training — 1 48 3-year Teacher Training — 34 1951 Undergraduates Liberal Arts — 184 Education — 253 Agriculture — 106 Engineering — 59 £ 3 mt iff i. I 1 U N at

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Left: One of the U.S.L. students in U.Y.A., John Smith, taking a rest in the home that various U.Y.A. members were repairing. The owner of the house looks on Above Left: Several student volunteers bus- ily working on the improvement of this old home in the Truman sub-division. Above Right: John Smith at work. Right: All ' s done . . . Anice McGill after a hard day of making repairs.

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5 t f ' tft ' » » • AS • 1 956 — legislature granted U.S.L. permission to institute a master ' s degree program. 1973 Undergraduates Liberal Arts — 372 Education — 481 Agriculture — 82 Engineering — 92 Nursing — 51 Commerce — 31 2 1 390 total Graduate students — 242 Doctorates — 14; largest number in history of U.S.L. More students graduated in Lower Elementary Education (1 58) than in any other curriculum. Far Top Left and Above Right: Spring of ' 73 graduating class. Top Center: A graduating class of the past. Far Left Bottom: Past U.S.L. graduate, Johnnie Theresa Landry. Left and Below: Faculty at 1973 graduation — Dean Allen St. Martin, Dean Ruby Tillery, Administrative Vice-President Dr. James Oliver and Dean Herbert Hamilton.