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

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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

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The beginning of all this was obscured by the activities. The rope pull was messy, but those who missed classes because of it would probably have done it all over again. It is probable that those who dug the ditch late that one night would not have done it again. But that was all part of the fun. Again the faces come. The faces of the upperclassmen behind the footlights of our Freshman Show will al- ways be there. They were happy faces- and they were laughing faces. It was amazing to see how each individual personality was re- flected in the various routines. To be sure, most of those who participated were ex- fl was 31, ms- 'M W f 3, I3 f - ,-,,,'---1 .r'JP N, - .o. Q' I UA'-. -. ut as Q Q.: -,.. .. - .- A .ji--' .1-' -. s-3' .- . 'vw . Q '- ,-0',g- J- - .,-- , Wg .rJ'- I Wu 1 V., A . 9 . ' tv B R I ' 544 s Di . ' A ' - 4 , .- . ., ' ' 'ITT' rf 'qi-m.,+ ....g'.i- . . . , A . , . ' gs- 4 E 1 uw! x LA .4 Um ' 5 517- 4 Qi U ,gh M K J '53, A 1. - N