Ball State University - Orient Yearbook (Muncie, IN)

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1961 Orient Ball State Teachers College Muncie, Indiana

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1960-61 . . . a year At Ball State Filled with Big and little things Happening all the time .... A year .... when being 21 Meant voting .... for Kennedy .... or Nixon A year .... when enrollment Topped the 7000 mark .... And four new women's dorms opened . . . While ground was broken For fof all thingsll .... a coed dorm .... The Music-English addition Neared completion .... As did the Student Center addition . . . A year ,... begun by A September heat wave .... Middled By winter sub-zero cold and snow . . . And ended By 1000-plus graduates .... A year .... filled with Studying .... Playing bridge .... Cheering at games .... Rushing .... Following the latest styles .... Socializing at the Center .... Growing .... But .... most of all . . . A year .... Of transition .... When Ball State U Moved from small college ranks .... To big-time status .... And you, Ball Staters .... Lived and grew with it .... And so .... we present to A record of that year .... 1960-61 .... In the 1961 Orient .... Leland Etzler Judy Richter Judy Rhodes Lu Woods . . . Tom Caton . . you . . . . . . . . . . . . . editor-in-chief .......-........copyeditor design and layout editor . . . . . . photography editor . . . . . . business manager