University of Mississippi - Ole Miss Yearbook (Oxford, MS)

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. . . and is inherited from generation to generation. Our parents, possibly more than any other factor in our lives, continue to influence us. Although their financial contributions to us are vital (and students could always use more), the unending love and understanding of our parents afford us necessary stability and fulfillment. Mississippi is characteristic of the deep South in that everyone seems to know everyone else! The parents of our classmates, we learn frequently, were college friends of our parents. In fact, Oh, I know his parents, is spoken quite often by par- ents of Ole Miss students. In preparing for the future, students from Ole Miss families may sometimes attend classes in buildings in which their parents also studied, sit in offices which might have served as their fathers ' dormitory room, eat in the same Grove where their parents picnicked, or walk on the same sidewalks that wore the soles of their parents ' penny loafers, spike heels, wing tops, and saddle oxfords. Top The Parham Williams family in front of the new Law Center; Bottom, Left Tara Wyatt with her parents; Bottom, Right Governor Finch with his daughters Janet and Ane. 22 Parents

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a solid The new student union, the foreign students, and the astroturf on the football field are examples of the expansion of the heritage of Ole Miss. Although Ole Miss has taken new forms since 1848, the world still thinks of Ole Miss as the Southern school, the center of Southern learning, and the home of Southern Belles. In these traditions we continue our true Southern heritage. Southern Heritage 21

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I Top, Left Lee Pans follows in his father ' s footsteps; Top, Center Maury McRoberts reads a letter from home; Bottom, Left Ole Miss parents John Pearson and Hartley Sanford converse in the Grove before a football game; Below Doug Stone, Ole Miss alumnus and former ASB President, points to Mrs Jimmy Pearson as her son, Denton looks on. As we complete our education, we develop a deep respect for those who have attended the University before us. We can identify with the experiences recounted to us by Ole Miss alumni - - experiences such as meeting a future wife or husband in the Old Bookstore, in the library stacks, or on the steps of the Old Grill; tales of the unorthodox behavior of the resi- dents in Bloody Labauve ; antics like lowering cadav- ers out the windows of the old medical school in Guy- ton Hall; traditions such as shaving freshmen ' s heads and having pep rallies in the Peabody Hotel in Mem- phis; events like electing a May Queen or Rebelee Queen; and spending time in going to class on Satur- day, shooting craps in the dorm, eating on campus at Greeks, and partying at the Peabody Skyway. It is indeed easy for those students who are Ole Miss legacies to fill that true sense of belonging to the changing permanancy of the University of Mississippi. Parents 23