Macalester College - Quid Nunc Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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...and some ol it before that. The search tor eclucation encouraged by the GI Hill has sent scores ol veterans to M:1c,s doors. The noticeable influx began the first semester in I9-15. Since then the admissions ol'- lice and the registraris office have seen a contin- uous flow ol' applicants tor admission. Mac has triecl to do all it can to help fill this growing clemancl lor higher eclucation. ABOVE: Servicemen applied early for admis- sion at the registrar otllce. Here registrar R. J. Bradley interviews Bill Gongerich and Daryl Tesch. LEFT: Students at summer school watched the new dorm steadily grow out ot its hole in the ground to the half completed building we see here. LOWER RIGHT: Kirk Hall residents check in tor the tall semester. Under the watchful eye of director Mrs. Doris Carlson, Curt March signs the register book while Wilber Blakely awaits his turn. BELOW: Heavily-laden co-eds Shirley Bennett, Jean Stemsrud, and Shirley Benson shuttle trunks, boxes, and suitcases up the stairs of Wallace Hall as they move in. hers, it was normal

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It all began earl last spring . . . ABOVE: Plans come before building. Back in The pre-Bigelow days These Two men, CompTroIler F. N. Budlofson and Chief En- gineer Edward Fowler spenT hours pouring over The necessary blue prinTs. Last Some came early . . . ABOVE: SepTember found The rooms of The new dormiTory as yeT unfinished, and opTimisTic veTercins such as Roy Ulman ar- rived bag and baggage only To waiT and waTch. RIGHT: So They had To move inTo The gym dorm where They found pleniy of companionship. ln various forms of relaxafion are Jack Ranney, Douglas Anderson, Sfanley Johnson, Warren Anderson, Charles Brady, RoberT Hoi- singfon, James Lindsirom, Glen Amunclson, John Davis and Neal Nickerson. 8 Plans for expanding Macis campus to provide for the increased population have long been in process. Preceding the actual construction have been hours of discussion and scores of techni- calities that have had to be Worked out so that when the hundreds of new Macites arrived on campus there would he places for them. Actual evidence appeared on campus last spring when the excavation for the new dorm Was begun. 0 9 0 and found things changed

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ABOVE: Testing in the library stacks began activities for such frosh as Richard Kurtz and Julia Peake ffore- groundl, Dick Nielson, Jean Choate Cleft tablel, and Carol Sargent, Beverly Becker, Bill Huntley, Arnold Kriesch. ABOVE: Loaded down with bed rolls, frosh girls crowd into one of the many busses which carried them to Camp lduhapi for a weekend of fun and relaxation before registration. Frosh week came, and we who ABOVE: The Mac annual's little brother, the Scotsman, is a freshman handbook distributed to all new Mac students in the fall at the frosh camp. Co-chairmen for freshman week, Barbara Critchfield and William Fudge, here discuss the booklet with the editor, Jack Nichols. RIGHT: Freshman counselors Douglas Young, Donald Lee, and Ronald Powers leave their lodge after a refreshing night's sleep at frosh camp, all set for another day with their freshman councilees. I0 Freshmen are privileged characters during their Hrst week at Macalester. As in previous years, they arrived eagerly in September several days before their more prodding elders. The excitement of dumping belongings in bare roomsg of meeting student counselors. already friends from summer correspondenceg of making a near-fue tile attempt to learn new names and facesg was dulled by Friday and Saturday sessions of Frosh tests-page after page of endless questions. But the Weekend's fun erased all traces of scholarly things. Piling into busses, they left for two days of