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The new Business and Econom- ics Center for Southwest Louisi- ana opened its doors to classes in the spring semester. The “BEC” contains the most ad- vanced teaching facilities as well as administrative offices. (Photo by T. Maricle) Jimmy Poole, a Fort Polk sopho- more, scores a shot while Joey Miguez, a Ragley freshman, tries to block it during a water-basket- ball game at the McNeese Intra- murals Complex. (Photo by D. Smith) Opening o
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What It Takes Some 40 years ago, McNeese Junior College offered a handful of two-year programs to its several hundred students. Many of these students hitch-hiked from what is now “old” — Lake Charles down a narrow road named Ryan Street toa campus of only a few buildings. Dean Lether Frazar led a small a faculty who, in turn, led our parents along the road of higher education. “Tom and Mac's,” the ‘“Hob-Knob,”’ and Prien } Park were the local hot spots. Students swam every summer in the rice canals south of town. Over the decades, McNeese has changed. What was once a vacant rice field has become a center of academic excel- lence in. the heart of Southwest Louisiana. Today it is ‘‘the + fastest growing university in the state’’ The Deacons, Continued 2 Opening
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4 Opening What It Takes... Gradale, and the Newman Club have been replaced by na- tional social fraternities and professional organizations. No one hitch-hikes down a congested Ryan Street in 1985, and the rice canals have been replaced by an indoor-outdoor Olympic-size swimming pool which is usable year round. Uni- versity programs now number in the hundreds, and thou- sands of students are led by dynamic faculty who prepare young people for a world changing faster than our parents could have imagined 40 years ago. McNeese has what it takes to provide quality education in various programs. McNeese’s growth has produced a pro- gressive College of Business, with students from all over the world filling the classrooms of the new Business Economic Center. In the last 10 years, McNeese has added, expanded, or received accreditation in over two dozen programs, includ- ing engineering, geology, nursing, computer science, educa- tion, communication and biology and chemistry. In short, McNeese has grown into a dynamic university which Continued
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