Blackburn College - Beaver Tales Yearbook (Carlinville, IL)

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CONTENTS B.U. HERITAGE FALL Student Marshals Homecoming Madrigal Dinner SPRING Black Experience II European Concert Tour Founders Day The Blackburn Players DORMS SPORTS WORK PROGRAM FACULTY ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF UNDERCLASSMEN SENIORS COMMENCEMENT SPONSORS

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A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT To the Class of 1988- Your first forebears - six men and a woman - stood on this very piece of ground when they, as the Class of 1870, graduated from this small college. Many went on to lives of great contri- bution and significance like Mary Hunter Austin, who fol- lowed them in her own com- mencement eighteen years later. You are a special class, gradu- ating in a special year, from a very special college. We wish you a very special and signifi- cant life. 1987-88 was an eventful 150th Anniversary Year, begin- ning with a special Homecom- ing which featured an unprec- edented return of all three “Hudson Sisters”, a game fea- turing our Prairie Conference Soccer Champions, and a memorable Homecoming Pa- rade through Carlinville which was festooned - all year - with “old rose” Blackburn banners. Second Semester brought Gwendolyn Brooks as our Founder Day Speaker and a vis- it of a number of black alumni who presented the College with a new scholarship in memory of alumnus Dr. James Clark, M.D. March brought the first ever international concert tour to Germany and Austria by the Blackburn Choir and the Unit- ed States Navy Band to Spring- field to honor the Sesquicen- tennial Year. In April we com- memorated the 75th year of the Work Program with a convoca- tion and symposium of promi- nent resource people, including Dr. John R. Coleman, author of Blue Collar Journal. On that occasion we dedicated both the halls of Work Plaques in Lud- lum Hall honoring former Work Managers and also a new Blackburn Athletics “Wall of Fame” in Woodward Center. Some 30 former Work Manag- ers returned to the campus for Dr. William F. Denman, President this event. A week later, Blackburn hosted a meeting of the four other American Work Colleges - Alice Lloyd, Berea, School of the Ozarks and Warren Wilson - under a Ford Foundation sponsored conference on identi- fying common themes among the group. The final events of the 150th year were Baccalaureate and Commencement, the latter in honor of the noted American author, Mary Hunter Austin, Class of 1888. These ceremonies attracted celebrated Indianapo- lis mayor William Hudnutt and former Wisconsin Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus. Eight former Student Marshals who also returned to campus for Commencement Weekend were our special guests, including Distinguished Alumnus Gordon McLeod, M.D. Class of 1954. A college with a 150 year his- tory is exceptional and the events of 1987-88 succeeded in reminding us all of that fact and the sacrifices and contribu- tions of so many over such a period which have brought Blackburn to its present cir- cumstances: an institution which has again recently been ranked by the Carnegie Foun- dation among the 120 strongest liberal arts colleges in the Na- tion. Mrs. Nancy Denman The 150th Anniversary Honorary Chairman, Dr. R.F. Adams, ’41 Chairman, Mr. Harry W. Starr, III Sponsors Joseph L. Boente, Inc. Carlinville National Bank Farmers and Merchants Bank The Franklin Macoupin County Enquirer Marine Bank of Springfield Monterey Coal Company Prairie Farms Dairy Inc. Mrs. Sally B. Schanbacher Mr. B. Richard Templeton, 48