Blackburn College - Beaver Tales Yearbook (Carlinville, IL)

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The Blackburn motto, “work, study, play,” becomes eine in one campus building: the dormi- tory. [he dormitory may be a place where one goes in order to work, study, or play, or it may be the retreat from worl study, or play. For months at a time—and sometimes for years —a small cement, tiled, or carpeted floor; gray, yel- low, or beige walls; a wooden door; Atel a clank- ing eles become home to Blackburn students. Floors are covered —with rugs, with dust; walls are plastered —with bulletin boards, with pic- tures; doors are opened —with a smile, with a scowl; and doors are closed — with a bang, with a whimper. Desks, dressers, chairs, beds are all alternately piled and cleared, piled and cleared, making way for the scholar, the talker, the sat from Fecal the halls, the guest, the Blackburn student.

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BLACKBURN COLLEGE CARTIMVILLE, ILLINOIS

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Life in the dormitory is a unique experience, for few people make a lifetime home out of a college dorm. It is a place where people of simi- lar ages and of similar hopes are united in the search for something beyond the bachelor of arts degree. In the homogeneity there is heterogen- eity—and therein lies the challenge of living together. In the dormitory we sleep, nibble, watch tele- vision, listen to our own private hymns, gossip, type papers, underline books, read mail, short- sheet beds, complete questionnaires, have house meetings, iron, sing, yell, bicker, fume, find refuge, dream —and grow. It is where we grow up, out, in, and beyond. For us who have been at Blackburn for four years, the door appears to be slowly closing. We must seek new vistas and new horizons, and we shall open many more doors before the final one has closed upon us forever. Yet somewhere in- side each of us, there will be a special spot re- served for that place—now here, now gone — our alma mater — where the door is always open. Janice Bergdoll Andy Fedak