University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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The Badger Setting Squeezed tightly between the ('ity of Madison and Lake Mendota, the University campus stretched out like a long thin ribbon as it hugged the shoreline on the north from Wisconsin Avenue to Picnic Point, and extended only three blocks south to University Avenue. This relatively small patch of land packed with buildings, students, and a wealth of knowledge attracted students from all parts of the world. In fact, this year’s enrollment included students from all of Wisconsin’s 71 counties, all the other 47 states, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, the Panama Canal Zone, Puerto Rico, Alaska, Guam, and 65 foreign nations. So Badgerland extended much farther than the Madison campus and the nine extension centers throughout the state. In terms of influence it extended throughout the world in the minds and hearts of some 112,000 alumni. From its humble beginnings atop Baseom Hill 107 years ago when Baseom Hall (then called Main Hall) and present-day North Hall were the only buildings, the University has grown to be one of the nation’s largest institutions, offering nearly 1.400 different courses of study each semester in 31 of the 33 fields of human knowledge. More than 3,800 new students registered each year for Extension Division correspondence courses to receive their education by mail. Thus Badgerland was limitless . . . continually improving . . . continually growing. This was Badgerland 1956 ... and in terms of future expectations, really only the beginning.

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i' iftin While the yholofnjttion w such'things as the possibility ( madc oart h satellite into space, local events c ored for our attention as well. One of the big questions on campus this year was “Will the city pass the beer law raising the legal drinking age to 21?” Minors 18 years of age and older sighed with relief when they learned their refreshment privileges were still intact. Madisonians, and students as well, took time to watch with intense interest the“trial”of Police Chief Bruce Weatherly. For several weeks newspaper headlines screeched about the hearing’s progress, but after the dust had cleared, none of the 13 counts against Mr. Weatherly had been proven. The American Legion did some screeching of its own. as it attacked the University for maintaining subversive groups on the campus. In a running battle with the Daily Cardinal the Legion narrowed its complaint to the existence of the Labor Youth League. President E. B. Fred’s eloquent defense of the University’s prin- Guy Sundt, our beloved athletic JiTe orj died this year leaving memories of his devotion and service to the campus community. Ivy Williamson, the |x)pular football coach who had brought Wisconsin’s fighting Badgers to the fore,stepped into the vacant position. Dean of Women, Mrs. Mark (1. Troxell resigned this year after 25 years of service to her friends the coeds. Concrete evidence of tlie University’s construction and expansion program took the form of a new Commerce building, and the Memorial field house which saw their first use during the fall semester. In view of the future planning, these ultra-modern structures were just a sample of those to come. We students were more directly concerned with our own campus problems and how to deal with them. Increased University expansion was rapidly tightening the student housing and parking situation, and student leaders fought segregation on campus with the anti-bias petition.

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Mr. . Josephine Souk is seen as she works on :i correspondence course in Knglish. The photographic laboratory made more than footlwdl films one of its productions, “The Cleft Palate Story. won international acclaim last year. The year 1900 marked the formal birth of the Wisconsin idea, since in that year professors and legislators laid the foundations for the Extension Division—the vehicle the University has used in carrying its benefieient influences to every home in the state. 'fhe next year the legislature granted $20,000 to establish the Extension Division, and by 1908 it was operating in every corner of the state. The first extension student was Paul II. Nystrom, a Wisconsin farm boy who went on from his corre- RHINELANDER Extension Division