Eastern Kentucky University - Milestone Yearbook (Richmond, KY)

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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.

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Our feef travel many cam- pus miles. They run with fall, drag with winter, skip with spring, play with summer. Daily we travel over fa- miliar paths. Our presence creates centers of activity. Over a cup of coffee, in a history class, on the main walk, or in a crowded car, the campus furnishes activity. Our steps will take us through beckoning doors which open into places of work and play, study and recreation These avenues will provide to us a way of life which at first has an air of strangeness, but gradually we begin to feel that we belong. Our campus is our home. Within the dormitories of Sullivan, Memorial, McCreary, Beckham, and Burnam we find a great portion of our college life. These buildings provide us with the opportunities to meet people who will become life-long friends. Stately columns invite us to enter . . . to share through days and midnight hours of study and talk and carefree laughter all our hopes, all our ambitions, all our fears. Dormitory life is an unforgettable experience long to be remembered and cherished.