Brigham Young University - Banyan Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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17,800 Students Represented Sixty J Behind all traditions, and giving life to a university f • are the students. In 1964-65 at BYU, with 95 percent of the I .OUnrflCS total enrollment possessing membership in the Church of A- . -i. J.WCF Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, there existed a common bond among the students that could hardly be equaled by any other school. Arriving from all 50 states and 59 foreign countries, the 17,800 students registered were split into 6,258 freshmen, 3,884 sophomores, 3,224 juniors, 2,887 senior 84 fifth year students, and 1,463 graduate students. With one more day of classes be- hind them students walk in the last rays of the setting sun to- wards home, supper, and studies. T

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One of 8,238 coeds on campus, the BYU woman played an important role in the life of the University. Whether she was wearing- grubbies or a floor-length gown, reading David Reisman or Charles Shultz, all it took was a wrinkled-up nose and a quizzical g-rin to convince the opposite sex that it would be a dull, dull world without her. In the classroom, this baffling, ver- satile creature showed her worth academically as gray eyes covered by green tinted contact lenses fastened attentively on the instructor. Yet, a university education is but one step in the training of a woman. Outside of class, whether it was dorm life with thirty-eight sisters on the floor, or apartment living with six roomies , there was an invaluable education taking place in the art of understanding people. It was this knowledge that assisted in preparing the coed for her future role in society as a wife and mother. continued