Rockford College - Recensio / Cupola Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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iwfl sm who regretted being so conscientious in their duties. All of this was part of the beginning of my college experience. It was a new life for me, and a new life for an old college. My class was the first to enjoy living in the entirely new facilities of the RC campus. At that time it seemed that the past of the college was rapidly being forgotten in the promise offered by the future. Did Anna P. Sill realize that the full potential of her school would be realized on a different site than that selected by her? I doubted it then, and I still confess that it is most im- probable. Young ladies must have thought it a wonderful place to learn -for the enrollment gradually rose, reassuring those who believed in Rockford College. The year 1964 will always be re- membered as the year that RC finally took the step towards becoming a real home for all its students. Before then, there was the inconvenience of old make-shift housing or the placement of students on two campuses. IO