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

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Workers in the University Commons peel Small mountains of apples to prepare salad for the hundreds of students who eat there regularly. A crew of maintenance workers scrub and polish the floor in the Well of the Adminis- tration Bldg, above. Ed Hanna keeps thc windows and brass in the Adminisralion Bldg. polished to a high gloss. The deaf-mule custodian, left, is a familiar campus personality.

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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.

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24 500 Married Couples Combine Homework, Homemaking At BG Bill and Connie Cooper had dated one another since early in high school. Last June they were married, after a three-year separation, and moved to Bowling Green to share Bill's senior year. To make ends meet, Bill holds an assistantship in the athletic publicity office and Connie is secretary in the journalism depart- ment. After their working day, the Coopers shop together, and in the evening Bill studies while Connie straightens their threesroom apartment. Week ends call for entertaining other married couples or an occasional movie. The young Coopers expect an addition to the family in June. The Coopers are typical of the more than 500 other married couples on the campus. According to the registrar, Bowling Green has the largest percentage of married students of any Ohio college. Ten percent of the freshman class alone is married. Nearly all the married students at the University have one thing in common. They may be struggling to finance both education and a family, but they learn much from one another by working together for their goals, and face the future with the confidence that arises from common understanding and experiences. Marilee and Ken Moore finish dinner dishes in their trailer kitchen. Ken is a junior; Marilee completed her freshman year last spring and this year worked as a secretary in the news serv1ce office. Jack Ward gulps his morning coffee as wife Susie feeds their young daughter. As with most non-student wives, Susie Ward holds down a full-time job, working at Wood County Hos- pilal.