University of Wisconsin Eau Claire - Periscope Yearbook (Eau Claire, WI)

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The Forty-ninth Annual Commencement on June 6. 1965. completed fifty years, during which time opportunity for higher education at Eau Claire has continuously expanded, touching the lives of at least thirty-five thousand persons enrolled for credit. Out of small beginnings have come the essential ingredients of a university—the liberal arts college, professional training, and a healthy student life. From the patience, persistence, imagination, and vision of innumerable persons presidents, teachers, students. and friends of the university—have come the excellences which it today possesses. Increasingly, the university becomes an integral part of the life of the community, encouraged in the advancement of learning by the generous gifts of alumni and friends. As Wisconsin State University-Eau Claire embarks on the Golden Jubilee Year of 1965-66. it would celebrate that greater educational service which had been its earliest ideal, and renew a pledge which has been its constant aim— DEDICATED TO EXCELLENCE 16

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EXCELLENCE IN ACHIEVEMENT Two alumni of the early classes, a teacher of art and a physician, recall fifty years of achievement. The Honors Convocation recognizes those students whose academic records have been outstanding throughout their college careers. The Alumni Association of Wisconsin State University-Eau Claire publishes a quarterly magazine, the View, supports scholarships and special gifts to the university. promotes chapter development, reunions, receptions. homecoming, and alumni day. and makes the annual distinguished service award to an outstanding alumnus. Excellence in forensics has earned a national reputation for Wisconsin State Unlversity-Eau Claire. 15 The 1964 Championship Football Team.

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1965-1966