Eastern Mennonite University - Shenandoah Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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Identity via Mass Initiation THE PRESS FOR AUTOGRAPHS at the college mixer introduced us to names from Oklahoma, Nigeria and Cuba. AT THE COLLEGE MIXER Gene Stoltzfus strums A VIETNAMESE WAITRESS Barb Wenger coyly “Dona, Dona” for a floored audience. serves the impassive American, Jim Sensenig.

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REGISTRATION INQUISITION can be very preplexing even to a veteran—just ask Mel — Harnish. “WILL THEY LET ME STAY?” the freshmen worry as they guess at the empty blanks on the SCAT test. ¥ i tame § Four days before the rest arrived, the fresh- men traipsed in to overrun campus. They under- went the initiating ordeal of tests, talks and tours, then capped the days with a hike over the hills for a supper out—potato soup and hot dogs, folk music by John-Dallas-Lorene and camp fire group favorites. Eventually 781 were properly inducted with registrations’s unwieldy line, snaking over the gym floor in motley segments—a prof interview, Dean's signatures, a stop for IBM cards, a bout with the money-changers, The all-school mixer officially welcomed everyone en masse. Remember the senior trio’s “Bean Town, U.S.A.” And the scramble to meet the most people first? The Thanksgiving Banquet proved an ironic attempt to capture the pathos in Vietnam. Guests dined with rice and curry, tea and angel salad While “Vietnamese,” “Paxmen” and “nurses” glided between the long tables. The movie, The Ugly American, climaxed the evening. . and so began the drama of the year . “MY BROTHER’S SO SKINNY that he has to wear water skis so she doesn’t get sucked down the bathtub drain,” Milt Loyer told the freshmen at‘ their fall outing.

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Necessities for Advancement Two federal grants—$5,000 for library books and $10,899 for the science, English and audio- visual departments—accelerated EMC’s economic value in 1967. A $50,000 grant by Carthage Foundation and an anonymous $20,000 liberated administra- tion for Science Building construction. Bids for the r building were opened in March. | By Christmas the back entrance to the Ad Building had fully metamorphized into a spac- ious lounge. Student pockets were mended with the $49,200 for educational grants and work-study | program. Jobs ranged from on-campus reception- | ist and teacher assistant to off-campus tutor or hospital orderly. In a desperate penny-pinching endeavor students ironed shirts, baby-sat or cut hair. Caught in the impetus of affluence, our small campus mimicked a great society. sf SHY APPREHENSIONS erase Katrina’s smile even though she snug- gles close to Rachel Fretz, her baby sitter for the evening. SPECIALIST OF THE MISCELLANEOUS at Broadway High, Wes Ross chalks up hours for his work-study time sheet.