Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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This Democratic wave of politics extended itself into Missouri, where the incumbant Republican governor, Kit Bond, was upset by Joseph Teasdale. Kirksville, too, was not without its political surprises as newcomer Harry Hill defeated dale Novinger for state representative. And where was NMSU ad midst the whirl of national change? It was undergoing its own evolution, a painstaking, step-by-step growth into a stronger and more modernized university. 'The campus grounds began to sprout new buildings. Suddenly construction workers were finished with the natatorium and began to concentrate their forces on the huge skeletal hulk rising next to Baldwin Hall- an uncompromising ediface soon to take the shape and function of an administration building. The Activities Pair has many diverse exhibitions, such os demonstrations of tech- niques in karate by Mike Harris. (ABOVKl I eonard Bruce and Kathy Kckler participated in the Activities Fair. (R1( HT) Pickier Memor- ial Library gives students a quiet and comfort- able place to study. 4

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A decade from now, when we look back through the tunnel of time to the school year of 1976-77, it may he that our memories will see only the swirl of motion and change—a year of new directions, not only for the outside world of politics and economics but also for the private world of NMSU. The nation, breathing a sigh of relief after a year of bicentennial fervor, became involved in another sort of nation-wide interest: the '76 elections. The smiling face of Jimmy Carter, only two years before an unknown politician and suddenly the new President, proclaimed that the eight years of Republican control had ended and the tide had turned back to the Democrats. 3

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Fooseball has rapidly become one of the student.»’ favorite pastime . (BELOW) The quadrnnglo provides beauty and a seeming tranquility to the sometimes hectic campus life. (BOTTOM) The Adair House, seemingly guarded by a watchdog, houses art classes and the Index office. MeUOMMMi The Student Union became the host of a landscaped mall and surging fountain which mistily welcomed students back to school in the fall. New parking lots, decorated with red and green and blue signs, charted previously unused grounds in order to guide drivers to the different directions each might take. Renovations in Baldwin Hall added an improved and more attractive look to the music rooms on second floor. 5