University of Illinois Chicago Circle - Circle Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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A Andrea Sumara check ' s the library ' s card catalog for information. B Ten minutes before every hour the sidewalks of Circle come alive with students changing classes. C Bring all the GI ' s home now , a protest of the war in Vietnam held fall 1968 . D Where did all the flowers go? E Sunbathing in the Fourm? F Circle Center highrise under construction. Whichever, a Yearbook is not merely a collection of pictures and summaries of events. It is a novel, a history text, and a biography of a school. It captures the school ' s spirit, be it moody or gung-ho. A Yearbook tells you what it was like to be a part of that school that year. It is a moment of an era preserved essentially forever. A time we are all a part of. But a Yearbook doesn ' t inherently portray this image. It must derive this personification from the people of the campus. At Circle, our variability is our signature. We are a young school, having begun only in 1965. The Library and A A still need to be completed 16 years later, and may remain so until 20 years and beyond. Yet, we continue to grow with record enrollments, a new Sports Pavilion, and the acquisition of the Formfit building for A A. On these and the following twelve pages are pictures, many never before printed, of Circle ' s early years and present days. 5

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Good Old Circle That traditional feeling of good old Circle doesn ' t seem to exist on our campus, or at least not within the present students, and least of all among the seniors. But after several years, the frustration and the weariness wears off, and nostalgia sets in. As we remember the good times we had as students and compare them to the familiar human feeling that times were better then will surface in each of us. We ' ll reminisce and wish we could go back to those simpler times. Each empty memory will enlarge a void within us. It ' s into this void that a Yearbook fits. As a light in the dark, it fills the memories with color, faces and friends long out of touch. Or perhaps a Yearbook only serves to remind us of the pressures and problems of our time here, thus dispelling the good old days image in our minds and eliminating the sense of nostalgia. 4

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