Bowling Green State University - Key Yearbook (Bowling Green, OH)

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Mugging for the camera, left, two members of fall pledge h classes revcrt back to childhood a :11 Gamma Phi Beta's traditional 97 4 ull-campus pledge party. Cold carolers gather around the giant Christmas trees in front of the Administration Bldg. dur- ing the annual all-campus Christmas caroling, sponsored by the Association of Women Students. The most persistent tradition, a boy and a girl. The faces change from year to year, - but the story is the same. Zl

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l. V. W: 3i W,' .4? Contestants in the Sigma Chi Derby Day wrestled with burlap bags, canoes, and oil drums. Top: Herb Moskowitz and date Norma Flade, left, played roles of Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus at the annual Association of Women Stu- dents Christmas formal dance. Bottom: AWS regularly packs both gyms of the Women's Bldg. for the dance, the first formal of the year. Women receive 2 a.m. permissions. ' .4 A 3w, W, 20 I M Na Resisting Change, Traditions Linger The bulldozers have spared a Iiew lumps in the highway of progress. The crazy spring week ends re- main - Derby Day, Chariot Race, Pi Week, Bike Race, Sadie Hawkins Week - and fraternity men still brave cold pond waters after pinning their girls. Bridge re- mains number one time-waster; students still flock to the quarry on hot days. The campus movie exists again for penniless Friday nights. No one has yet solved the park- ing problem despite the new lots, and monsoons still periodically envelop the campus in clammy dampness. New traditions sprout - May M76619 Commencement Week End, hPounce - but students still cling to the old ones as they would to a pair of old shoes, comfortable, familiar, beloved. ATO,s start a fresh rider on his lap in the annual Delta Upsilon Bike Race. Theta Chi won the 1956 race, with Alpha Xi Delta's Debbie Aunger reigning over the contest.

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Behind The Scenes 600 Keep Us Moving XMorking twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, 600 regular and student employees of the maintenance department have as their goal the comfort, satisfaction, and protection of more than 4,000 University students. The shining spotlessness 0f the Administration and other campus buildings each morning, the carefully- pruned shrubbery and close-clipped grass in spring and fall, the abundance and variety of foods, watchful eyes of justice and order, and the familiar Number, please -all these services and many more are performed for students and faculty each day by men and women of the maintenance department. One hundred and twenty-five of these employees work at the endless job of serving meals to more than 900 male students who eat at the Commons. Eight policemen with one radio patrol car keep constant watch over the campus. Tagging traffic and parking Violators when necessary, they are always on call in an emergency, forming an integral cog in the maintenance department's vital service machine. M7orking as a team, this efficient staff literally keeps the University moving, fed and sheltered, convenienced and served. In lonely vigil, campus policeman checks at 3 3.111. to see that the door to a University building is secure.