St Josephs College - Phase Yearbook (Rensselaer, IN)

Page 8 text:

The reflecting pond or SJC is o port of our community thot is enjoyoble to everyone throughout oil seosons of the yeor. Freshmen, Jim Mathews and John Obbogy rop with Father Froelich in the lounge of Dennett Hall. This is on example of showing o personal touch. Many students followed their fellow pumas to football gomes wherever they ployed. To display their spirit for their team, they rood-tripped to places os for os Georgetown College in Kentucky to watch. 4 A Personal Touch

Page 7 text:

Senior Corrie Mondschean shows some 5r. Joe visitors how to party pumo style at a small get together before o football gome. Seniors Chris Teall and Marie Walsh prepare for o doy of fun of Lake Donet. Back To School Dock to School 3 fter the summer vocation we thought would never get here; we couldn ' t wait to return to our campus home and life style. Cars, vans, trucks and u-houls lined the streets on Saturday morning, os upperclassmen were running off to see who else wos bock in campus. Freshmen and transfer students hod a chance to orient themselves for o few days before the onslaught, and soon found themselves pulled in to the excitement of college life. Arranging one ' s space was the first order of business — laying carpets, hoisting couches, tacking posters. But that August heat soon drew us to the beach at Lake Bonet, the bockroods by the river, or the nearest fon with o few friends to reminisce the adventures of summer. Activities were planned by the Student Association ond HSUB, to get people acquainted, and the campus was generally known os the country club. The field between Noll and Gallagher Halls was the scene of many football, frisbee and softball gomes. All too soon that energy was directed to the process of buying books, locating dosses, and taking notes from new professors. The Cubs were in first, the weather was awesome and we held on with only the best. We partied, dealt with the difficulties of school, and long winter months. We maybe even grew up a little, but in the meantime we turned up the tunes, danced and celebrated our good times at Saint Joseph ' s College.

Page 9 text:

he life we have at Saint Joe ' s is something special. Our particular school is unique for the fact that each of us is an integral part of it. The figures and faces in these pictures are not simply fellow students, they are people with whom we have had close and exclusive contact. They are people who we know; only a few perhaps as true friends, but all are recognizable at least as a face we have seen time and time again. For those of us who have been involved in various activities at St. Joe ' s, almost all of the images in this book may be immediately identifiable, even as to the exact time, place, and circumstances of their occurrence. Others may have had a smaller sphere on our campus, but these areas as well are represented. Even if, for reasons of your own, you have shrunk from playing a part in this community, you are still here. There have probably been times for all of us when the small scale of our world at Sr. Joe ' s seemed stifling. Yet our school can always provide a window to larger horizons, a ladder to higher places, on a place where we can train to expand ourselves. Classes at St. Joe ' s are challenging. They can also be, as we all know, quite intimate. In our classes we have The girls from Halos Hall hove always displayed their togetherness as they do now, cheering on their classmates and roommates at on air guitar contest. stimulated each other in learning, and perhaps, discovered friendships of a new kind during the course of desperate study sessions. Academics have been the central goal we have strived for together but there are numerous other opportunities for learning and growth at St. Joe ' s. For our physical maintenance and improvement there is Raleigh Hall, the courts and fields which hold our intramural games, as well as the varsity sports in which so many of us have competed. Here again, we have grown closer displaying and admiring athletic desire and ability. Special hobby clubs, student government and many other organizations and projects have allowed us to work on still other areas. In short, St. Joe ' s can only have been as small as we, as individuals, at times have made it. All of the above can be disputed, as each of us has had different goals, aspirations, and reasons for being and staying at St. Joe ' s. Rut there is a simple area of immense importance to all of us. This area is that of our rime here as one of personal growth in contact with a select group of people. To say that we are a select group is not exactly to say that we are superior. However, it is to say that people we know here, who are seen within these pages, have become so to ourselves. This is the Personal Touch of Saint Joseph ' s College. A Personal Touch A Personal Touch 5