Bakersfield College - Raconteur Yearbook (Bakersfield, CA)

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1963 Raconteur Bakersfield College today is the product of her yesterdays. In fifty years she hots expanded from ink wells to typewriters, from blackboard sketches to teaching machines, from tinker toy interplanetary models to the most advanced planetarium. Sweeping external change jolts only the retiring alumni, for their college is What she was. What she is to the present student is the Campus Center filled With tangled hum of voices, blare of a dance band, ringing of CI telephone. It is the quick squeeze of CI hand in the library, the press of Ct line to CI ticket booth, the smell of spraynet, of chili beans, of rain, of dust, of fog. It is the sound of feet on the pavement during a break, the hush of voices in the classroom, t the stirring of coffee, the lone trumpeteer playing I Left My Heart In San Francisco. Yet the essence of Bakersfield College is not in these, but in ideas. Today, as in the past, ideas are born in the classroom, nurtured in the shower, contemplated on the solitary walk through campus after three on Friday, and developed in the Campus Center over half filled cups of coffee and many cigarettes. In the realm of ideas, BC rests firmly upon her motto, Only the educated are free. F or a college is more than buildings, students, faculty, or even books. It is the perpetuator of intellectual Challenge, of inquiry, of discovery, of ideas. And this is Bakersfield College . . . Published by Associated Students Bakersfield College Bakersfield, California

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