University of Mississippi - Ole Miss Yearbook (Oxford, MS)

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F We came. . . There were some 3,001- s of us. We came by bus. car, train. plane, thumb. We converged on Oxford one dark Sunday afternoon, and the year began. We were the students of Ole Miss. We were Ole Miss. We came . . . This was our goal, our desination—this 640 acres of ments, buildings, woods. We made it complete; with our arrival, it became Ole Miss. Our migration began in all parts of the nation, in many parts of the world. We came from as far away as Iraq and from as near as the Old 1 ulty Apartments. We were seans, Estonians, Californians, Puerto Ricans, Mississippians. We were a mopolitan group; but our traditions were Mississippi ' s traditions; our hope was Mississippi ' s hope; our future was Mississippi ' s future. 1 We came . . . from porticoed sions, from small white houses, from glass and steel apartment buildings. We grew up in great cities and in small

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towns; on Delta plantations covering thous- ands of acres of flat fertile land and on home- stead farms hidden among the hills of Lafay- ette County. We were wealthy and we were poor. Our parents were plumbers, industrial- ists, cattlemen, doctors, dirt-farmers. We came . . . to prepare for our careers which were to be as varied as our back- grounds. We sa ourselves as chemists, journalists, doctors executives, lawyers, engi- neers, teachers, acOuntants, pharmacists. We set high goals; and we knew, even as we set them, that some goal ' would be reached eas- ily, others only wit difficulty, and that some would be eternall just beyond our grasp. We