Penn State University - La Vie Yearbook (University Park, PA)

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Only A Beginning ... Starter kits arc in demand 14 Beginnings Theatre 190 - one of many popular courses

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All Roads Lead to Happy Valley East, West, North and South - all roads lead to Happy Valley as Penn Staters from all corners of the state descend on University Park. To sooth jitter)' freshmen and inspire minds of weary seniors, the campus and surroundings offer a peaceful beauty. The campus is trees, squirrels, fields and lawns; the surroundings arc country roads and mountains. Nestled in the Nittany Valley, part of the Centre Region, Penn State is centrally located, ideal for a state landgrant school - no student traveling a far greater distance than another. Whatever the conditions of your particular route to school, the beauty of the Centre Region can’t be argued. One has only to look out a window to see the sun on the side of Mt. Nittany or to be deep in thought on the way to Pattcc and turn to see a bushy- tailed critter scampering up a tree to feel for an instant the easing of the midterm panic. But the Centre Region is also State College the closest thing to city you’re going to find in these parts. Catering to the students. College and Beaver Avenue shops offer diversity. This catering is justified only by the knowledge that the town growth has been coincident with, if not dependent on. University growth. State College population in 1940 was 6,200; University enrollment was 5.000. By 1970. State College had grown to 34.000; University enrollment to 31.000. Centre Region. State College. University Park - there’s a touch of home here for everyone, from one-way streets for the urbanites to dairy barns for the country folk. Welcome to Happy Valley - the mountains and trees, classrooms and stacks. -jmc- Approaching from Pleasant Gap on Route 26 You know you've arrives! I Centre Region 13

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HEALTH. PH AND “What’s a Number Two card? the naive Ist-termer asked while being herded through the IM building. If only there were some way to prepare, really prepare, him for registration, but I suppose that would only take the fun out of it all. The 10th-tcrm-and-overs wouldn't be able to glare condescendingly and the lst- termers wouldn’t have that feeling of accomplishment when they finally realized that the colleges arc placed alphabetically around the gym. That first registration was the beginning of the reality of COLLEGE. Sure you’d gone through the motions of “going away to college’’ - bought a trunk, packed your belongings, driven in the family wagon up. down, or over to Penn State, found your dorm and unpacked - but that was all with Mom. Dad. or best friend's help. Granted, you braved the dining hall without family but you still had all the floormates and “OLs” around you in dorm territory. At registration, you were on your own, to face English 10 and Phys Ed 005 lines. To think those funny little computer course cards would take the form of 400 bodies in 111 Forum two days later - you didn’t quite make the connection. The course cards were only the beginning - they led to syllabi and midterms and class cuts and t-scores. By fourth term you KNEW what teachers to take for what classes; by seventh you had your special studying niche in Pattce; and by tenth you frequented the bars more than cither class or Pattee. From orientation to graduation — you adjusted and familiarized and left Penn State with at least one more thing than you had on arrival that Icathcrbound onionskin. -jmc- lnfamous Phys Ed 005 lines There really is a method to this madness Beginnings 15