Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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Photo by Don Richards

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ROYAL PURPLE 1965 Published by Student Publications, Inc. Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas Becky Fitzgerald Editor Mark Miller Business Manager

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Foreword The images of people, places and things Photo by Don Richards Colorful chrysanthemums sold by Mortar Board out- side of Memorial Stadium mark the day of a game. The images are brilliant and sharp, standing out in the enveloping haze of experience that is college life. They are poignant details etched in color on a chalk-dusted slate of memory. Images. Trivialities of sight, sound and feeling grow and become significant, heavy with meaning, a small moment in four years that somehow will come to stand out and even symbolize the whole. They will linger. If you ever smelled the dampness of a dorm laundry room, where collars never quite came clean, you will remember it always. Or donuts and black coffee in the Union before class. Experiences merge. A single all-night cram ses- sion will be forgotten because there were so many of them and the stomach ached in the same sour way. Dawns characterized by burning eyes and smoke-parched throats blend indistinguish- ably into one. But a racing second plucked out of the rush may have become frozen. The way her hair looked caught by the wind. Turf churned into the air by football spikes. Images. A poem read for you by a sorority sister. Your roommate who finally met the right girl four times during his sophomore year. A graduate student ' s study light on a fog-shrouded campus. Frothy beers lifted in cheer. For each they are different and special. You remember it clearly. You even know how the sky looked. Images. They can ' t be recaptured for each ac- cording to his own special lights. But your ROYAL PURPLE is dedicated to those flashing scenes. The images of Kansas State University, 1965. Distinctive features of the Union are sales of campus groups like Delta Phi Delta ' s Thieves Market. I