Illinois State Normal University - Index Yearbook (Normal, IL)

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The big day for Joe College has finally arrived! On Sunday, September 12, l954, Joe helps his parents load the family auto with suitcases, boxes, etc., and motors to ISNU, where he will enroll as a freshman. An excited group of enthusiastic freshmen and their parents iam McCormick Gymnasium for the afternoon convocation. The box lunch on the beautiful ISNU campus gives the freshies their first taste of college life. The entire week Joe and his fellow stu- dents take campus tours, go to various meet- ings, and struggle through the reading, so- cial science, and psychological tests. Then the watermelon picnic tall he can eat, tooll, church receptions, and the never-to- be-forgotten freshman and all-school mixers climax .loe's exciting festivities before he begins his grueling first registration. On Sunday afternoon a very happy Joe sits at his desk and writes his parents a note which reads something like this: Gee, but l'm having a great time. lt looks as if l've really chosen the best college of them all- lSNU. I I I Edith Mabry receives the Salima and Jack Reckling. N. Y -'fl X r l L ,X nf' l g T Q -r We 1 1 ., r s 3. I' y M 41k J A WF. ' is A l S at! A H4 Lx, I' ' Q, X 4 xl K. ,yt s 'nf' fri. ,X gg f,ay-I long card from registration assistants Marilyn l ' i May I have the next dance? Timid freshies meet the upperclassmen at the all-school mixer. R'

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Umm, good! soy freshies and upperclussrnen at the wotermeton feed during Orientation Week. Bob Townsend ponders over one of the many Orientation tests. Uziemfcufd - 1 t x. f ' ...I -1' J' X W t 'ww X I x 7 t G U: K1 G in Q ft' f CV 01f?nmz,

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John Davik demonstrates the principles of physics to his U. High class in the Science Building. df Making use of the facilities oftered to the special education department, Gerald Studebaker helps a child who is hard of hearing. Q as L. Student and teacher-a role each senior plays sometime during his last year. Whether it be for nine weeks or two semesters, each senior gets a taste of what it is like to be a teacher. Grading papers, making out tests, going to P.T.A. meetings, making lesson plans, and loving every minute of it, the student teacher experiences the satisfaction of watching his students progress under his guidance. Choosing to do her student teaching on campus, June Wennerstrom finds the Metcalf playground a valuable asset to the laboratory school.