Athens State College - Columns Yearbook (Athens, AL)

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Foreword Athens College is more than the name of a small church-supported school in a quiet Southern town; and getting an education involves more than a group of buildings in which students gather at the sound of a bell to hear the words of a learned professor. Athens College and the education it provides include unique combinations of sights and sounds and smells. Melted together they form a series of four-dimensional pieces of sculpture, which can be preserved in an annual only by being flattened into piaures-portraits of an education. The fourth dimension, the one we have tried to capture in these portraits , is spirit. Spirit keeps the vividness of an image and a memory alive. Be it wild enthusiasm at a ball game or reverence at a prayer meeting, the spirit of Athens College will linger long in the minds of students and faculty members. This, then, is an effort to present through photographs and words the spirit of 1963 at Athens College.

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A group of people meet in the name of a committee to determine the destiny of a student or to draw up rules for students to live by or to plan a social event. . . . Girls with their hair wound round huge rollers scurry about helping each other dress for a dance .... A burst of applause after a performance reminds us that culture and the arts are vital aspects of an education, while the smell of sulphur or formaldehyde speaks for the importance of scien- tific research .... The sound of car doors slamming as night school students rush to class impresses us again and again with the urgency and necessity of that college degree .... A game of ping-pong or a hand of bridge in the snack shack affords us time out to relax and enjoy the company of others .... A single window of a dormitory is brightly lit at 2 a.m. It looks strangely lonely as we wonder whether the light is shining on a book or on a smoke- filled room of boys in the midst of a heated discussion .... A couple outlined in the porch light of the women ' s dormitory contrasts the reality of deadlines with the fairy-tale magic of courtship; and we realize that some of the re- lationships formed at Athens will last a lifetime