Agricultural and Technical State University - Ayantee Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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We sa v imich more of the library, spent an increasing; nmnber of extra hours in tlie labora- tories, listened much more attenti ely to those ivarniiigs about increasing recjiiirenicnts of the vorld ivhich awaited us. 1 hose who got the message, and some didn ' t, saw the neon glitter of the country club side of college life pale to a dull grey, had fewer hours for the snack-bar. heard the blaring sounds from the big wheel grind to an almost sudden halt and experienced a deepening concern lor those things which really counted. Like e ery college and e ery college year. 1962-63 A. ;T. College students witnessed the usual personal problems, woes, pleasures and com- plaints. These, we learned to know, are just as normal here as they would be in a town A ' ith an identical population. For many of us. we experienced success more often, but laihne at times. We took them all in stride for the recognition of them only meant that we were maturing. I love a paiade. Better lo gixc than to receive. Mv Roomie and me.

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■rai Going plates in tliis woiUl. Academic Excellence , a program aimed at lilting the total lc el of pcrlormance and achiexe- ment ol the total A. S: T. community, was the theme . . . yes, the battle cry for the 1962-63 school year. All ol lis fell the sting of a tightening-up process, a serious and concerted etfort to develop an awareness among us that any ordinary per- formance and achie ement here were not enough to prepare iis for the tightening competition which we were to encoiniter on the outside. To flasscs — good weather, or foul. I ' jM

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Fdiiiulcn D.iy — Dr. ' illaid Goslin, priiiLipal speaker, and Dr. L. C. Dowdv. lapaiKM- (lu(, 11(11 Dr. Shogo Koyana, Tokyo Women ' s (ilnisiian College, answers students questions. Conimcnrement — an impressive occasion.