Arkansas State University - Indian Yearbook (Jonesboro, AR)

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THE RECEIVING LINK at the f roll man reception offers every member of that class the opportunity to meet the most influential people on the A-State campus. The line includes members of the administration and student leaders. DR. VANCE, professor of education, adds the feminine touch to the arrangement of the boutonniere on the jacket of Dale Wyatt In-fore the President’s Reception. A BEAUTIFUL TABLE SETTING enhances the atmosphere of the senior President’s Reception. Ed Dickson and Warren Dupwc partake of the setting. 29

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Freshmen, Seniors Feted Most A-Stalc students get to meet President Keng at least twice during their college careers—at the annual freshman ami senior receptions. During the first week of orientation. awed freshmen pass along a receiving line to shake hands with l)r. Hcng and then mingle ith faculty memhers. A few weeks later seniors pass between formal guards and through the doors of the President’s home to go through a receiving line. Then they. too. mingle with the faculty, greeting teachers they had in past years and being nice to those they have this year. Perhaps they remember just for a minute how they felt a few years past . . . FRESHMEN GET TREATED to the punch ami rookies of iheir first college reception. The freshmen meet the faculty ami later attend the dance for them on the patio of University Hall.

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Acres of chicken wire stuffed with napkins, a dance in the gym to the rhythm of Willie Mitchell's comho. a white corsage trimmed in red and black, a cheering crowd, a game, the crowning of a queen. It was a unique week —one in which dungarees and sweatshirts were typical collegiate attire, classes were superseded by the all-important task of display construction, and alumni returned cn masse for a yearly pilgrimage to the Alma Mater. Feelings which range from nostalgic recollection to frustration to exhilaration. These form, for the record, memories of Homecoming 1963. AN ECSTATIC CANDIDATE, in this case it is Pat Warncke, learns she has been selected by the student body to reign as Homecoming Queen.