Rocky Mountain College - Yellowstone / Poly Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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Tbente off tfout Annual 7ke Steamboats once rounded the bend of the Missouri and chugged up the waters of the Yellowstone. Indian braves once rode their ponies off the highest point of a cliff, plunging downward — being smashed on the jagged rocks or caught in the swirling depths of the river. Believing the Great Spirit would accept their sacrifice, they died to prevent the small-pox epidemic from spreading further among their people. Those lusty days when Calamity Jane careened through the unpaved streets, buxom, brazen and boisterous — those days are gone. What was once a riotous confusion of half-marked burial grounds is now a neat enclosure marked Boot-Hill. Yellowstone Kelly, an early scout, rests in the rims where the Crow Indian, Black Otter, is buried. Although this valley of ours, this gateway to the mountains, has been described by travel folders as busy and thriving, there are times when she is content to slumber in the sun, remembering the pageantry of her frontier. Sacrifice Cliff, magnificent and brooding, still overlooks our valley. The same little jack-pines of years ago listen to the wind, sighing over half-for- gotten tales. Come along with us on this trip up the Yellowstone. Linger at your leisure over the past. Look to the years ahead with confidence. PAGE TWO

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HtiUrif ojf the School Thirty-nine years ago two young educators, Lewis T. Eaton and his brother, Ernest T. Eaton, became possessed with the dream to give to the neglected youth of the Northwest their chance for a training in life. Failing to secure the necessary financial assistance for buildings from philanthropists, they inspired a group of young men who were longing for a higher education to join them in building a college. In the summer of 1909, in a sugar beet field near Billings, Montana, these ambitious youths cleared off the beets with a farm team, exca- vated the ground for an institution which would meet their educational needs and those of hundreds more to come after them. Founded as a School of the Open Door, it maintained vocational and academic courses of an elementary and secondary nature, filling the needs of the frontier region then served. In 1922 the Technical School became fully accredited as a distinct unit. In 1934 the four-year liberal arts college was instituted. In 1947 there was a merger of Polytechnic Insti- tute and Intermountain Union College under the new name chosen by the students — Rocky Mountain College. Rocky Mountain College, virtually alone in this vast northwestern mountain and plains country, affords the opportunity for Christian Higher Education. It now proudly presents a fully accredited college of liberal arts, a superbly equipped school of technology, and with the transfer of our Business College to the main campus a complete course of business administration and secretarial science. Completing our college are the evening classes which include Spanish, taught by Mrs. Elliott; German, by Mrs. Hugo Anderson; dramatics, by Mrs. Carl Carter; art, by Mr. Harry Hazard; and visual education and mathematics by Mr. Robert Hamilton.

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DR. WILLIAM D. COPELAND The Pt evident Our new president has our trust and our hopes. Making no multitude of promises, advo- cating no bally-hoo publicity schemes, he won our respect. Appearing in work clothes on Clean-Up Day and working beside us, he won our friendship. On a Saturday morning recently, he was observed trimming the hedge near the conserv- atory. Few presidents would take such personal interest in their college. A4mnUttathn Miss Bessie Gibbons, the office manager, is also director of Kimball dormitory. She comes to us from Lake Forest College. We are fortunate to have a person of her training. She takes a great interest in all the girls and is one of the key people on the campus. Mrs. Maurice Willey, the bookstore manager, serves also in the capacity of receptionist. A graduate of Smith College, her home is in Boston. Together she and Miss Gibbons represent a loyal team for protecting the inner sanctum of President Copeland ' s office. PAGE THREE