Alma College - Scotsman Yearbook (Alma, MI)

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On Sunday, May 'l5, l960, the campus swarmed with approximately five hundred high school students, Alma students, faculty, administration and guests. LIFE magazine sent a writer and photographer, WWJ-TV was on Tyler Center's roof with cameras trained on the Chapel lawn, and other photographers and newsmen were hovering in position. This was the dedication of Books for Africa, the effort begun last fall by Dr. James Robinson, AImo's Religion in Life Week leader. High school gtudents from the Synod of Michigan had gather- ed over 50,000 books for this great proiect and brought their cargo to the Alma campus. Day and night they came, sometimes routing fraternity men from their beds and books to help them unload the many volumes. At first the books were stored in the temporary barracks across from the Administration building, but when the floor began to sag beneath the weight, the books were transported to the basement of the Dow Science building. Thousands of books, waist high in depth, Association worked clay and night sorting, stapling and addressing them for mailing. tribute their time and strength and, finally, on May 15, the books were ready for Africa. The books were carried free of charge to New York and thence to the port of Mambosa, where they were again shipped without cost to the city of Nairobi. The interest gained during the Books for Africa drive stimulated another interest in Dr. Robin- son's workcamp endeavors known as Operation Crossroads-Africa. This summer Gloria Mclntyre and Doug Wilson will be with the Ghana station. To the country of Gambia, Nola Hatten will lead a group of eleven students from colleges and universities throughout the United States. All of the groups will be engaged in a workcamp situation with African students for four weeks. Different proiects in each country consist of everything from building roads to making bricks. The remaining weeks of the summer will be spent in traveling to other countries in Africa and Europe. Operation Crossroads-Africa is another effort Alma College is making toward world understanding. covered the floor. Students of the Alma Christian packing the books into newly-donated cartons, and Fraternities and sororities were called upon to con- D U N L I L L A H N T T E N my X XJ L 4 , Vai N t x P I 1 Nw., X .. 'f-- W - 'i.- Q A , ,hm- ..,.. , '- ff l 'd i-.- t rt f , Q t 1- t.-Aww ws. , st Q V ,V , .V 3 ..., - 5, 1 ,,,., L, ,.., V-? V I ,, in -1 .I M g I A , GLORIA MclNTYRE W , X .s. . .. . fy Xt, Q. . . '3..iT2'i5::.3'iig: . 'X''ri-ifi5'.I3:Qff5i5,.,, ' Vg. 'R Stix i f. 5? rw, -

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CAMPUS DAY Spring brings thoughts of its biggest event, Campus Day, the first big day the underclassmen can tell their own. This is to them as Homecoming is to the upper- classmen, and perhaps for the first time comes the realization that they belong. The queen and her court are chosen from the freshman and sophomore class and reign, for their day, over the campus. 1960's lovely queen was Naarah Crawford. The members of her court lfrom left to rightj were: Mert McKim, Margaret Ferguson, Nancy Logan, Joyce Grover, Joan Olson, and Jan Redmond. Their escorts include: Ray Graham, Vern Hipwell, Roger Arbury, David Elliott, David Smith, David Smith, and Ronald Roe. Hal Waller was the M.C. for the coronation. s nnm'.1:.s.:t-sr