Montclair State College - La Campana Yearbook (Upper Montclair, NJ)

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Front: Ugrovics, Crosby, Cunninghom. Rear: Koubo, Rufflng, Gorski. SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS President Vice President Secretary Treasurer SGA Representative SGA Representative ROBERT RUFFING VINCENT GORSKI PATRICIA CROSBY MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM DONALD KOUBA ROBERT UGROVICS

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setting sun reflecting on steel girders of buildings rising against on autumn sky. What Montclairite of our changing era could ever forget the hours of waiting in hot, crowded lines to buy books at Mrs. Quinlin ' s hole in the wall in lower center? The cafe in the basement is now also a memory in the lives of people and a college. We became part of the Montclair social program with the first SGA weekend featuring a dance at the Glen Ridge Women ' s Club. The annual Christmas assembly was held in the old gym in the Ad building. Carnival time in March took us South of the Border. And so freshman year passed and we had a final memory to keep with our dance in June; the wonder of it still recaptured in its name June Rhapsody. The Class of Change returned for the second of its four scholastic hurdles to witness the opening of Finley Hall, a mod- ern classroom building. This time we were on the other side of the plaques and on the reception line at the Peace Dance. After the glory of orientation week, we settled down to classes and that old deluder, study, once again. We entered a float in the Homecoming Parade. Naturally it rained that day, but that didn ' t daunt those of us who went to the game. It was soon December 1 0, 1 956, and a banner day for sports fans. Our new gymnasium opened. Less than a month later, on January 7, a twenty-seven year old dream was achieved when the ribbon to Life Hall was cut. Members of our class were largely responsible for the spring Carnival on Broadway. We were again selling candied apples while the wind blew gaily colored decorations through the air and threatened us with rain. Memorial Auditorium opened its doors for the first time April 30, on the occasion of our annual college band assembly. The first production in the new home of Players was Our Town. Once again, however, time slipped by and we were going home to summer jobs. We big brothers and sisters were barely in the routine of a school year before we left campus for Junior Week. In October the Space Age dawned. The launching of the sputniks had a profound effect upon education and our future. Teacher Educa- tion for a Changing World became the theme of our forth- coming semi-centennial celebration. None of us will forget the installation of the jukebox in Life Hall ' s game room or the first concert with Virgil Fox at the Memorial Organ. The guberna- tlljLD ' . ' Jl -. torial race of the fall was carried to the stage of the auditorium. Although Senator Forbes spoke on campus, MSTC and the state preferred Governor Meyner. The SGA weekend was highlighted by a dance featuring a name band for the first time on campus. Buddy Morrow came with his popular Night Train. The year moved along quickly. The first Junior-Sophomore Dinner Dance eased the tension of the perpetual studies. Exams came with a rush leaving us breathless. Suddenly the year was gone and with it went many things we had come to esteem. We returned for the reality of senior year to a college with a new name. We were to be the first class to be graduated from Montclair State College. Panzer College and Montclair State were merged. We were mutually to share facilities, academic stand- ards, reputation and tradition with our new Panzer classmates. As we walked across the beautiful mall, we viewed the accom- plishments of the brief years just past. But construction was still underway in another section of campus as the Home Economics Department made plans to enter its new center. Members of COG were envisioning still greater expansion of facilities. A Fall Convocation officially opened our Fiftieth Anniversary celebration on September 23. Montclair became the first state college in New Jersey to award an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree. The Homecoming football game took on greater signifi- cance as our class float won second prize for adherence to the semi-centennial theme. The classroom became our chief concern as we scanned the Education Office bulletin board to see where we would do our student teaching. We pushed these thoughts into the back of our minds as we danced at the Senior Informal at the North Jersey Country Club. But the naive dreams of student-teaching for the freshman of 1955, became the immi- nent realities of 1959. We returned in April to a campus just beginning to blossom with the greenness of springtime. Practicum and placement held our attentions until the flurry of those last days ... our year book, senior boat ride, prom at the Waldorf-Astoria, baccalaure- ate, and finally the pomp and circumstance of commencement. We take our farewell of Montclair cognizant of the advantage gained in education — education in scholarship and in the every- day workings of life; we take our farewell with deep pride and undying affection for Montclair State College, our Alma Mater. 20

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ARTHUR JAMES ABBAZIA Physical Education JOHN T. ACORN Fine Arts JEANNEHE AUDREY ALLEN English MARIE ROSE ALVES Spanish EMMA M. ARMSTRONG Secretarial Studies MARIANNE SERAFIN ARMSTRONG English I 9 MONTCLAIR STATE CO 22