University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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BIRTHDAY CAKE has to be stretched a long way when hundreds of eager students turn out to celebrate in front of Northrop. Welcome Week Acquaints Freshmen With U “Isn’t this place huge? Man. was I lost in the Union! These and other comments were heard all over campus during Welcome Week, me third phase of new student orientation. Lasting six days. Sept. 18-23, Minnesota's orientation program is one of the most elaborate in the nation. Three ideas guided the week’s activities. The first was a preview of academic life which included convocations. lecture demonstrations and a “How to Study session There was also a general introduction to each of the colleges in the University. Another was introduction to the facilities, services, faculty and staff. Student organizations and interest groups were presented at the Activities Mart held in the Union. Social activities were not forgotten. These ranged from Greek Night to Dr. Lombard’s “Introduction to the Lively Arts to the Welcome Week Whirl on Saturday night. The high point of the week was the Friday convocation at which Canadian Superior Court Justice Samuel Freedman summarized the new student's relation to the University community as a whole. PRESIDENT WILSON gets the first piece of his chocolote and white birthday cake from hostess Jo lynn Edberg. 16

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FRESHMEN are learning quickly — don't just sit around during the free minutes. Fill your time by playing cards. ALL RIGHT, GANG, here's my plan. Jcanie can distract the other team's members while we run for the touchdown.

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CHICKENS ARE RAISED by agriculture students on the St. Paul Campus each year for the big Welcome Week Barbeque. HOT AND COOL JAZZ by Doe Evans and his group drew hundreds of freshmen to the Union's Dixieland Luncheon. BONNALEE NYBERG, freshman from Willmar, was crowned Freshman Queen at the climactic Welcome Week Whirl. 17