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

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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!

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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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26 AT INDIANA STATE WE have a limited federal form of government which encourages students to take part in guid- ing their own futures. Under the capable, rational guidance of our deans, we learned well the part everyone plays in his community, and we practiced our right of seIf-creation in this near-perfect environment of college.