Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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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

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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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The residence halls newly furnished or brightly painted—have come a long way from the stark, prison-like appearance of former years. Homecoming festivities of ’76 were celebrated as always, but with a few changes from the pattern formed by previous years. A newly-formed Residence Hall Association watched its independent candidate assume the crown of Homecoming Queen, a privilege in the past usually won by Greeks. People had “bumped black and blue and were now disciples of the disco dancing mania. Girls wore longer skirts and shorter hair. 6