Lees McRae College - Ontaroga Yearbook (Banner Elk, NC)

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I The big moment arrives . . . The culmination of many hours, days, and months of hard work . . . The ending before the beginning of a new way of life apart from Lees-McRae. GS, FROM THE COURTS, THE STAGE, THE CAMPUS . . . EXPRESSIONS OF THE STUDENTS The changing of classes, the ringing of bells, the brief chats in the hallways -- these are all part of the daily routine. The excitement of a ball game victory and defeat--part of a way of life at Lees-McRae. 5

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'Ib O.T. Carnival offers fun and excitement and affords the students a break in the routine of classes, labs, and study. Here students participate in the penny-pitching booth. The smell of formaldehyde and the sight of a dead shark do not discourage anatomy students Fetzer and Lansdale. Long hours are spent in the library in preparation for class. The 1965 ONTAROGA offers a written tribute to a n ument of history and time - a year. It was a year of s - 0 life, activities, learning, and people. It was a year character ized by happiness and sadness, success and failure, athle and studies, disappointments and worry. The people, h ever, made the year -- the bright-eyed, eager freshmen the confident sophomores. These two classes together v Lees-McRae and offered the foundations for the year brought it to a close -- a year in the past. There is aunity -- a oneness among the students at Le McRae. This unity is easily seen in the spontaneous expi sions of spiritual, social, and educational activities of campus life. Lees-McRae is one school -- one student body compc of unique and original individuals, each possessing his distinctive characteristics, achieving his own rewards, expressing his own thoughts. Yet,there is at Lees-Mc a harmony of purpose to acquire, to learn, to prepare meet the challenges of the role of adulthood. The students are many, constantly shifting and divi through varied classes, clubs, and curriculum. They freshmen and sophomores, each absorbed in his own l world, in the subjects he studies, and in the people he me What of the oneness and the spirit of Lees-McRae It has made each ready for future and placed him in the thi hold of life prepared. MOVEMENT . . . ACTIVITY IN HALLS, AND E Students await the arrival of the band at the Christmas dance. The band The spring formal, the May Day Dance, climaxes a year of fes- showed up at 10:30. tivity and dances. Soon after the May Day activities final exams roll around and the curtain falls on another year at LMC. T ,ff A

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113-,M ?Ti13ff, , ..g N 57:-1-17 - ,y., .,.- -- DEDICATION J. B. Pritchett Instructor, Biology Mr. Pritchett, a graduate of Duke University, began work at Grace Hospital, Banner Elk, May 15, 1933, in the Laboratory, and taught chemistry to the stu- dent nurses. He taught Biology at Lees-McRae Col- lege from 1938 to 1948, while maintaining the hos- pital laboratory. He became full-time instructor at the college in 1955. He became Chairman of the Division of Science at Lees-McRae in 1964. He is a charter member of the N. C. Society of Bacteriolo- gists and member of the American Institute of Bio- logical Sciences. A radiating smile, a willingness to listen, a keen insight into human affairs, an understanding nature, and always a desire to help -- these are some of the admirable qualities that belong to this faculty mem- ber. We, with warm regard, dedicate The 1965 ONTAR- OGA to J. B. PRITCHETT 'TF' Z E. N