Radford University - Beehive Yearbook (Radford, VA)

Page 33 text:

Foreword Perhaps the test way to explain the purpose of the 1963 BEE HIVE would te to choose a theme and attempt to mold every phase of life at Radford College to conform to the theme. Because any theme we might choose would limit, and thus distort, some or many of our experiences together, we have tried to avoid the use of one. However, a book cannot be a confused mass of pictures and copy — some central idea must draw it together and give it unity. That idea must te broad enough to include all of what we call Radford College. This year we have been fortunate in finding that central thread. The Fiftieth Academic Anniversary of Radford College will bind our book together. We want to show you Radford—yesterday, today, and tomorrow. If one must insist upon a theme, call our theme PROGRESS. This book attempts to show the progress we have made in the understanding of our role academically, spiritually, and socially. It will show the growth of our facilities and the expansion of our student body and Radford's standards as they have teen cherished and practiced by our students and faculty will show the progress we have made in understanding ourselves and others. Therefore, we shall include not only the past fifty years, but also the traditions and unique qualities of Radford for which we, and students of the years to come, shall be responsible. This personal aspect is what we shall attempt to capture. As you see, we are back where we started. We must include even,’ phase of Radford life, for progress is not one-sided. We, the Class of 1963. looking back to 1913 and ahead to 2013, present this l ook, hoping that someday, perhaps fifty years in the future, you will open it and remember RADFORD. Contents Dedication------- 30 - 31 Administration and Faculty 32 - 53 Classes - 54 - 55 of 1963 56 - 102 of 1964 103 - 117 of 1965 118 - 135 of 1966 136 - 149 Clubs and Organizations 16-1 - 215 Features 216 - 225 May Day 226 - 232 Senior Week, Baccalaureate, Graduation 233 • 237 Senior Directory 238 - 249 Index 250 - 252 29

Page 32 text:

28

Page 34 text:

IN 1906 RADFORD COLLEGE was nothing more than a dream in the minds of the men on the Virginia State Legislature who chose Radford as the site for a State Normal School designed to serve southwestern Virginia. When classes were first held for one hundred eighty girls in 1913, the dream became a reality. In the relative peace and quiet of a mountain plateau, Radford State Normal School began her growth, despite the fact that the rest of the world sat on the verge of a great war. The world also had a dream ... a dream of peace. Through scanty newspaper accounts and letters from the boys who went to fight, the girls received the news of World War I. But to them Europe must have seemed as remote as another planet and the horrors of war totally incomprehensible. The endless trips to Founders and the numerous events of college life continued as though war had never existed. Radford developed into an important educational institution nourished by an expanding student body and numerous grants from the Virginia State Legislature. No longer serving only southwestern Virginia, Radford's span of influence increased. Girls now arrived from all over the state, and, slowly but steadily, girls from neighboring states arrived also, . . . each girl bringing with her a new flavor, new ideas and opinions, and, of course, a new accent. In 1924 Radford State Normal School became Radford College. Public schools all over the state felt the influence of teachers who had been Radford girls. Pearl Harbor suddenly turned the world's attention again to war, and the dream of peace once more evaporated. Again the Tech men departed, and letters arrived from the battlegrounds of the world. The girls stayed on and added rolling bandages to their daily tasks until the “war to end all wars” was ended. A period of optimism and expansion followed the war. Girls from other countries began to hear about Radford College. With them, the foreign students brought the opportunity of seeing the basic similarities among the peoples of the world. Today the influence of Radford College, Woman's Division of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, is felt in areas never imagined in 1906 as, building by building, idea by idea, her service expands. In contrast to those first girls from southwestern Virginia, Radford now serves girls from twenty-two states and five foreign countries. But we must not forget that, without peace, the kind of world for which we are being prepared cannot exist and, without freedom, that world is not possible. Yet peace is as much a dream in 1963 as it was in 1913. And so we, the Class of 1963, dedicate this book to the PROGRESS Radford College has made in fifty years of SERVICE to her state and nation and, to PEACE, without which the next fifty years of service may not be possible.