Black Hills State University - Eoicha Yearbook (Spearfish, SD)

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20 PUTTING painting techniques into creating a masterpiece culminated hours of classroom instruction tabovel. Ceramics involved some mud among the creativity labove rith. Required activities for music majors and minors were band and chorus, and consequently rehearsals trighU. Fine Arts Man and His Music illustrates the efforts of Fine Arts in transmitting the artistic heritage of man to the student. The relationship between music and culture and appreciation of the work of great composers are the aims of this particular course; and in a general way point up the attempt to develop knowledge and appreciation of the arts. For students with a larger interest majors are offered in art and music; those in music have a choice between either instrumental or vocal emphasis, or can get composite majors.

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from commitment to realization , a outcommbditybideas, our product people Having committed ourselves to fostering individual excellence, we have prepared a program designed to meet our objectives and to fulfill promises made to our state and its people. We have housed our program in modest accommodations. In an era of modern Goliaths, ours is the stature of a David. We submit that size is not a necessity for excellence, that size does not inhibit our academic integrity! When scarcely more than a twinkle in a legislator's eye, we assumed our mantle of educational integrity. We began fitfully, awkwardly in a barn-Iike structure. Our first year was dedicated to a group of ninth graders! Like an acorn, we grew - slowly, but with the strength of oak. Program by program, year by year, the curriculum grew. Before we reached our silver year, we were a two-year school; by mid-roaring twenties, we achieved our four-year goal! Our adolescent years were meaningful, sometimes painful years. Occasionally we faltered, but we persevered. Never loosening our hold on educational integrity, we turned adversities into meaningful experiences; we resolved obstacles and are stronger for them. Heidepriem Hall, 1964, will be joined by a twin dorm in 1966.