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

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The Lyceum, which opened for the first University of Mississippi class in 1848, symbolizes the origins, endurance, and triumphs of higher education in Mississippi. During the Civil War. the building served as a hospital for Union and Confederate soldiers. In 1962 it was the scene of a major event in the Civil Rights Movement. After a night-long riot, the University ' s first African American student, dames Meredith, enrolled in the Lyceum. An extensive structural renovation was

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3 by AshleyWilliams Simply Classic portrays the essence of what makes Ole Miss distinguishable from any other place in the South, the United States and beyond. Our love for everything Ole Miss related permeates in every part of our campus and community. In creating a mood throughout each section, we attempted to recreate this emartTonal attachment to friat quickly becomes our college days gone by. Everyone who peruses these pages srrourd feci an ■flrtacrrrneTft to ml one commonality which binds us; our Alma Mater; Way down South in Mississippi, there ' s a spot that ever calls, where among the hills enfolded, stand the old Alma Maters halls, where the trees lift high their branches to the whispering Southern breeze, There Ole Miss is calling, calling to our hearts ' fond memories! ' The inevitable love every student, faculty and staff member, Rebel fan, and Oxford resident feels is directed to something larger than just The Lyceum, The Grove, or Vaught-Hemingway Stadium; our lives are shaped by the experiences here, we share as a collective whole and personally by those, who perhaps randomly, who become our group of friends and acquaintances. Perhaps your group started with a potluck roomtwafe turned best ' friend, a classmate who turned into a future fiance, or a friend of a Grovina friend turned confidaiat regaraless, we ha scared an monumental part of your lives with each other. When we first arrived, we huddled together as lost freshmen and managed to find the places we fit; we have grown in ways in-measurable. We have learned what being a Rebel really means and that epitomizes the definition of Simply Classic. theEND prologue by ' AsfiCeyWiCCiams

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At the center of the new quadrangle between the J.D. Williams Library and the Paris- Yates Chapel, the fountain was a project in the works for five years, funded by donations from Phi Mu Sorority. The fountain will be maintained by the University. Ole Miss is the the best kept secret in the nation. IF EVERYONE ONLY KNEW, THEY WOULD BE KNOCKING DOWN THE DOORS TO GET IN. ?5 c.i i ustcellor Robert Khayt