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

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-. The new women's dorms, the last housing units to be built on the campus for many years, had been completed. Anna P. Sill could never have imagined the changes her dream would undergo. That was something I never thought about while attending RC. In fact, it never really occurred to me just how much the whole concept of RC must have changed in all those years, 1847-1965 A group of students returning to the dorms would not have considered it. And I really don't see why they should have. It was all rather remote. RC would never again be a college for women. It had become a coeducational college for men and women -men and women learning of life, about the world, and about the people around them. But it seems that the things we learned about people were the most interesting and worthwhile. Everyone was different, and our life at RC had made us aware of those differences and had forced us to react and to adjust. l l l