Eastern Kentucky University - Milestone Yearbook (Richmond, KY)

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1955

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This is Eastern. This is a small but progressive and growing college of seventeen hundred students. Through its gates pass men and women from every part of the state and from many miles beyond the Commonwealth. Our homes are as far apart as Staten Island to Denver and from Detroit to Pensacola; from Burning Springs and Honey Bee and Happy Valley to Richmond. We come from large cities and small farms; from modernistic high schools and one-room schools; from little rural churches and from city congregations; from the mountains and the bluegrass; from the coal miner ' s family, the railroaders, the farmer ' s, the business executive ' s. We come with the marks of our community ways upon us. We speak the soft and slow speech of our southern hills and mountains and the swift, clipped speech of northern towns. We come with ballads on our tongues and fiddle tunes at our finger tips, and with remembered symphonies in our ears. We come believing and worshipping in our Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, or Mormon faiths. We come with minds which have been exposed to many different views, but have not always met a view on life which we could accept as our own. We come with biases and prejudices ac- quired in our local communities or perhaps we come with open minds, willing to con- sider new opinions. But these differences of background lose their sharpness when we enter into our new world . . . our one world, college. Merely our presence here unites us into one ... a person who has the love of Eastern foremost in his mind. We come with many goals. While here our feet will pass through many doors, climb many steps that lead through halls of applied arts, science, fine arts, education, health and physical educa. ' on, military science, mathematics, social science.