University of Nebraska Kearney - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Kearney, NE)

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Chatting at the Faculty-Freshman Reception are Dr. Dwight Adams, associate professor of English, and Janet Johnson, a freshman from Holdrege. President and Mrs. Milton J. Hassel hosted this affair. Student Council member Cheryl Drew presides at the serving table where she poured punch at the Faculty-Freshman Reception. Stand- ing by to assist Cheryhis council member Tom Kociemba. Opening Week Events ’64 Year Pace Setter The campus of Kearney State College became a confused mass of people and buildings for some 1300 freshmen, the largest class to enter KSC, as Freshman Week began September 10. The highlight of the 1964 Freshman Week was the annual Faculty-Freshman Reception. At this reception, freshmen had the opportunity to meet many of the faculty members as well as the members of Student Council.—J.A. 8

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As Phyllis Showers strummed her guitar on talent night, the other rushecs joined in on the folk songs. Sylvia Anderson does her interpretation of Somewhere” from If'est Side Story as her contribution to the rushees’ talent night program. While members of the five KSC sororities busily prepared for the entertainment. In addition to individual musical selections, all of final day of rush parties, the sorority rushees provided their own the rushees participated in the sing-along sessions. 7

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The Rondeau Singers, Jerry Wise, Lynn Casey, Denny Schneider, ballads while the freshmen joined in on the syncopated clapping and Dee Schaad, Dick Flagg, and Jon Calhoun, sang popular folk on the sing-along songs at the Freshman Week Hootenanny. Hootenanny, Reception Crowd Freshman Schedule Freshmen and their parents were welcomed to the campus of Kearney State College at a buffet supper for them the first evening of Freshmen Week—1964. In addition to the Faculty-Freshman Reception during Freshman Week, various other activities were planned to welcome the new students at KSC. A hootenanny featuring the Rondeau Singers was held the first day the freshmen were on campus following the buffet supper for the fresh- men and their parents. A SAC movie and dance, a football game, and registration and fee payment were also a part of the beginning week activities.—J.A. Adviser Dr. Aristides Sosa, instructor of foreign languages, confers with his advisee Diane Soli during Freshman Week conferences. This registra- tion scene was duplicated many times by other faculty members, during the spring and summer pre-registration sessions. k