University of Illinois - Illio Yearbook (Urbana Champaign, IL)

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D I ISTR TIC

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ilsill ... . . . I Life, Learning and Tradi iong This Is Yours . . . In another month, the Class of I960 will gradu- ate and be Finished with college. VVe will become alumni, ending another University of Illinois gen- eration. For 92 years people like us, some more dedicated, some not seeking education at all, have quietly entered and departed from the University. They leave behind them the work, the culture, and the tradition that make Illinois what it is today. And so it is to the 300,000 Illini who preceded us up the ramps ol' Memorial Stadium and along a once tree-lined Broadwalk that we dedicate this ILLIO. Three faculty members, 77 students and one used building were the core of the University in I868. All this seems very lar away knowing our sprawling campus with its 20,000 students and currently 201 sections ol lreshman rhetoric courses. Our campus is known for being big, busy and brainy. Illinois is renowned as a giant in education, and a leader in many fields of research. This is the legacy of those who studied, taught and worked before usg it is their achievements that made possible much that we are learning now. And we should be very proud. Times change and so do the people, places, and institutions. The traditions of the past are gone now. Freshmen don't wear beanies. No longer is a class hatchet passed from seniors to juniors each year at Commencement. No one knows the difference anymore il sophomores sit on the Senior Bench. It appears we have grown too large for those intimate customs that once marked the progress of a student towards graduation. Some of us miss these tliingsg and though few of our traditions remain today and almost none are starting, we shall attempt on the pages that lollow to uncover, dehne and reminisce about what we do have that makes Illinois unique. Few of us will forget the noise and dust of the Armory on Sheequon week-ends, or the short excite- ment of the fraternity pajama races in autumn, or the chimes ringing in Altgeld tower as we shivered home from a four o'clock in December. VVe remember the times when we had real spirit-the day we beat Army-the night the team returned from IiVisconsin. And there was spirit in the disappointment we felt when we knew there was no longer a chance for the Rose Bowl. Some day we shall try to recapture the way we felt in 1960 and remember what it was like when an hour exam was the biggest of our problems, and we could forget it all in the usual smoke and noise of a Friday afternoon in Kam's or Bidwell's. On these pages we shall go back to what we have seen and done and lived with on campus. Find your place in the section because you are a part of all that is Illinois. Although this year has gone by. our work and dreams have cleared the way lor what shall happen beneath the Orange and Blue in future years. And now in our last college days the words beneath the Alma Mater statue come alive: To thy happy children of the future, those of the past send greetings. Now we are the past of Illinois. May the future continue for Learning and Labor. 7