Bethel College - Graymaroon Yearbook (North Newton, KS)

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1969

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THRESH ER Bethel College North Newton, Kansas Iris Unruh, Barbara Gingrich Co-Editors Lyle Stucky Business Manager

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FGREWORD 1969 . . . a year of change. Sacrificing traditions and setting precedents for new traditions. It was a year of happening - both in our small community and in the larger world. There was the war in Viet Nam . . . inflation . . . demonstrations in Chicago a second Kennedy assassination . .. Biafra . .. Apollo X . . . the Yippies . . . Richard Nixon. On the campus we were challenged with the 4-1-4 . , . black power . . . financial crisis . . . moral and disciplinary evaluation . .. smoking in designated campus areas. 1969 . . . a year like all others and yet different in many ways. Student registration was made easier GJ with IBM . . . student employees wage raise . . . no junior-senior banquet . . . the little 500 . . . fire in Mem Hall . . . the food service . . . campus radio . . . popular music in the dining hall . . , film passes . . . History of Black America . . . ACCK. 1969 . . . some things refuse to change and remain a part of us forever. Leap weekends . . , intramurals . . . engagements . .. chapel . . . senior orals . .. coffee dates . .. dancing . .. daily announcements . . . readings days . . . the campus cop.