Manchester College - Aurora Yearbook (North Manchester, IN)

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THE STORY OF THE YEAR ■■ ■ ■ ■Within these pages is contained the story of a year — the exciting story of an eventful year at Manchester College. For each one of us this year has meant many things — new experiences, new friends, new ideas — with every day a vivid page from the book of our lives. There has been pleasure, romance — yes, and tragedy too, with each of the eight-hundred plus of us experiencing all three. This volume is an attempt to capture some of the highlights of the year, some of the myriad activities which make attendance at college the unforgettable adventure that it is. And so, we present — the story of a year. Don Durnbaugh, EDITOR Ed Butterbaugh, BUSINESS MANAGER

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This is the story of a year — to be explicit, the story of the school year beginning on September 5, 1947, upon the invasion of the campus by the frosh, and reaching a conclusion on May 31, 1948, with the rite of bestowing into the hands of the departing seniors their diplomas, one-way tickets to the future. The list of characters includes the not-so lowly freshmen, smack-dab in the middle of a spanking-new experience; the sophomores, confident in the knowledge that they are all-knowing and all-seeing; the jun- iors, just learning how terribly much they still have to learn; the seniors, monarchs of the campus, readying themselves for the on- slaught of the bright unknown; the faculty, whose staggering task it is to instill somehow into this heterogeneous mixture the nebulous spark called education. Here we are, from many states of the union, from fertile farms and bustling urban areas, some of us fresh from high school, some via the service. But as varied as we are, we have but one purpose, and that is to acquire the elusive education. For each of us, the word different connotation; for some, it means facts, statistics, booklarnin , for others, the discovery of a 0 carries a statistics, booklarnin personal potentials and adequate ways of adjusting our lives to make for harmonious relationships with others. Here at Man- chester we find the happy medium, the environment where ade- quate knowledge may be acquired, and, moreover, where there is sufficient opportunity for developing socially. Not the least important of Manchester ' s advantages is the personal interest shown by each professor for each student, resulting in the enrichening friendships between faculty mem- bers and students, so lacking on the campus of the large university. ■ ■ ■■ H