Indiana State University - Sycamore Yearbook (Terre Haute, IN)

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GOING HOME! PACKED AND ready to leave were Pat Carlisle, Jackie Hauler, Sue Peacock, Jun Miunick, Dale Byers, Carolyn Lyons, Morris Cornell, Bill Hargis, Peg Sherfick, Mary Helen Coates, and Augie Mauser. we were always glad to go, but we knew we7d be ready to come back by the limo vacation was over. Of course, picking up grades came before making the trip homewanl. With the usual happy WU faces that accompany grade-day, John H. Cooke, Harwook Phend, Julius C. McKay, Mary Jo Rogers, Martha Petersen, and Harvey McClain lined up to receive the cards that Mary Ann Miller was handing out. Looking back over the year, we realized that it had been a full one. Our grades reminded us of the hard work we sometimes did, just as Olher souvenirs and memories recalled the fun we had.

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HONOR DAY, 1955, SAW PRESIDENT Raleigh W. Holmstedt present approxi- mately fifty awards to students who had proved themselves outslanding in their respective fields. Awards given included the Junior French Scholarship Awards, the Sigma Alpha Iota National Founda- tion Award, and the Second Reeves Nursing Award. Pictured are, the student co-chairmen who supervised Honor Day plans: at, lhe left is Forrest Dunnuck, senior from Nappanncc, and at the right is Betty Peak, senior from Michigan City. At the far right is David Nicoson, president of Student Council, who presided at the ceremonies. Dr. Joseph Schick, professor of Eng- lish was faculty speaker at the cere- mony; also featured in the program was the college orchestra, under the direc- tion of student conductors Leonard Minix and Mary Alice Hughes. Dr. Lawrence Ehcrly, professor of music, played the organ prelude and postlude, and Georgia Gwynn led the audience in singing the uAlma Malcra'. Honor Day Passed Most By WITH A HAPPY GRIN, Charles Buckley received his award and congratulations from President Holmstedt. After a year of hard work in a chosen field, it was quite a thrill when we received recognition - and quite a disappointment when we tlidlft 23

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Seniors Changed Our Campus, Then Left ALTHOUGH COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES were forced indoors by rain, five hundred and sixty-eight seniors and graduate students received their degrees during Indiana State7s 84th Commencement Exercises. The college Symphonic Band, conducted by chosen senior students, began the evenings program with a prelude concert. Followingy the concert, Martha McLaughlin, from Lewis, Indiana, conducted the Band as it played the processional. After the processional, Robert Bielski, Senior Class Presidenl from Michigan City, gave the invocation. The College Choir, under the direction of Mr. Hilmer Jacobson, then sang ttBlessings 0f Peac,e,77 by Alexander Arkhangelsky. President Raleigh M. Holmstedt presented the main address, ttMes- sage t0 the Classy; following his speech, he and Dr. J. Erle Crinnell, Dean of Instruction, conferred degrees on the graduates. M U!