Concord College - Pine Tree Yearbook (Athens, WV)

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1970-CONCORD COLLEGE-1971 HAIL CONCORD COLLEGE, HATS OFF TO YOU EVER YOU ' LL FIND US LOYAL AND TRUE FIRM AND UNDAUNTED, ALWAYS WE LL BE HAIL TO THE SCHOOL WE LOVE, HERE ' S A TOAST TO THEE Concord College, the Campus Beautiful, located at Athens, West Virginia. Concord College. Is it just a name or a place, or does it stand for something more? I wonder how many students have ever stopped to ask themselves what Concord College is, or what it represents. Some students will say that Concord College is a place of higher learning, others will say that it is a place to escape from your parents for four years, and still others will say that it is a place to have fun at their parent ' s expense. All of these statements may be true, but beneath all of these ideas you will find that Concord College is simply people. Yes, Concord College is people, people from all corners of America and from all walks of life. Concord is a community within a community. Concord is the interaction of people with other people. People living together, people working together, people making friends, and people having fun. Without these people Concord would cease to exist. People are the living heartbeat of Concord College. They give it life. They provide the nourishment to make it pulsate, expand, and grow ever larger and larger. People are Con¬ cord ' s umbilical cord of life; cut the cord and Concord would be doomed to a slow, strangl¬ ing death. Yes, without people Concord College would cease to exist. Concord is truly people, and people are the greatest thing in the world. 3

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ORIENTATION Summer is over, and it is time to go back to school. But it isn ' t like returning to high school. No, now we are entering into a completely new environment, a totally new experi¬ ence. Yes we have finished high school, but we are still students, only now we are college Freshmen. It seems strange entering into this new world. For the first time many of us have finally experienced a sense of complete freedom. We have reached adulthood and no longer have to be tutored and coaxed along by the stiff hands of our parents. For some of us it is the first time that we have been away from home, for others home is but a few miles or short drive away. We experience a sense of fear and anxiety, but we also feel the warmth of happiness and friendship. Now we are college Freshmen. We have much to do during this period of orientation. There are so many new faces to meet and new names to remember. Through our shyness and fear we somehow find that it is easy to make new friends, and we find that people from other sections of the country are really no different than we are. Orientation Week goes by quite rapidly. The schedule has been very busy. Some of the program was interesting, other parts were quite boring. At last it is time to go to the final activity of the week, the Orientation Dance. Oh the tortures of going through that recep¬ tion line. We expect to see stiff-collared professors glaring at us, often with a look of hate in their eyes. But you know what? They are really human, just like us! Orientation was an experience, some enjoyed it, others did not. Finally the week is over, the upperclassmen return, and we prepare to register for the first time. 5