Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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WILLIAM M. SCIIILDBACII The goals and ideas you shared with your friends aren’t just talk this time and you're going to get good grades and you're go- A SOLITARY FIGURE WALKS and takes advantage of the crisp autumn air and a brightly colored trail, knowing all too well that very soon this favorite park of Oregon State students. located east of Benton Hall, will be shrouded in rainclouds. ing to get involved and you're going to get our more. This is it. It’s to be a clearly classic year.

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CLEARLY ooooooooo LASSIC Seen They’re almost too precious to spell out to anyone. The expectations for the year, the promise that starts to grow brighter the closer you get to that first day of school. You want to tell everyone about the potential this year holds for you, the goals you truly will achieve and the obstacles you plan to overcome. You can’t wait to be surrounded by all your old friends, exchange summer stories and predict future events. The thrill of sitting in the classroom among hundreds of other people trying to pick out the curve raisers and the test file holders makes The Corvallis of old possessed what many of its inhabitants labelled potential . As visitors travelled the dirt highways that would later become 1988's 1-5 and 99 W. people chose to settle and raise families in the area that held so much promise. Knowing that Corvallis would not be maintaining its small status much longer, artist Wallis Nash. Secretary for the Board of Regents of OAC captured the community in its first stages of growth in an etching of the flowering city of Corvallis in 1880. OSU ARCHIVES. PI7:«o you anxious as you wait in line for your schedule. It's always a pain to unload the car and get everything into some sort of order, but when roommates are doing the same thing and one of them springs the new popcorn popper they bought you know that the year is going to turn out okay. You start taking time off on your own as the leaves start changing from green to brilliant gold, and during a stroll through the park, quiet, comfortably lonely, you come to the exciting realization that you do have a lot of things you want to get accomplished.

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CLEARDT ooooooooo LASSIC dates off on your syllabus and take an extra long, hot shower. Can't you just imagine hundreds of students doing the exact same things you’re doing right now? Certainly each individual can't be the only one doing a certain thing at a given time. This afternoon you’ll feel like the person who’s shouting the loudest for a field goal and yet you have to know that somewhere in time, someone else may have called out just a little bit louder, someone who did the exact same thing you are doing right now only thirty years ago. It’s kind of an eerie It’s one of those days. It’s a day that, at first glance, may seem like a thousand other days you've lived through already, but upon closer inspection you realize that this is a rare and original day that no one has ever encountered before. You know you should go to the library to do some research on that term paper, but you also know it’s not due until Dead Week and that is practically an eternity away. Besides, it’s only partly cloudy and the Beavers are playing football at two this afternoon. You’ll arrange your notebooks, mark some A football game is one reason to get out of the house and get away from the educational pressures of school for awhile. Strategic advice is aired by coaches and players with each game. Friends reacquaint themselves with each other and new friends are made. If you had taken a random sample of the 97.126 fans about why they chose to view this particular Rosebowl game of OSU vs Iowan Halkeyes in November of 1957. you could be assured that no two answers would be exactly alike.