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

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SUMMER: Summer studentA attending the UWEC were a varied group. Teachers, businessmen, teachers, regular students, teachers, housewives and teachers attended clnsses to pursue degrees, learn new methodologies to aid them in their careers or for general self-improvement. The mood of the campus was entirely different during the interim and summer sessions. An over-abundance of parking places served the scant 2. 729 students registered for classes. Half of the Blugold remained empty as the few students, faculty and staff ate there while other food service u-nits received their annual cleaning. This quiet campus was often awakened by the onrush of young participants involved in the many clinics sponsored for high school cheerleaders, basketball players, journalists, and gymnasts. More often — fourteen times to be exact — Davies Center was filled with freshmen attending orientation sessions. The freshmen were conspicuously marked by their blue and gold folders chock-full of schedules, appointment cards and directions on how-to-register, how-to-survive. howto-. . . They received their first college experience on an unrepresen-tatively tranquil campus. And their first dorm roommate was the mother or father they brought along. The small number of students proved an advantage when sponsoring groups were able to distribute free ice cream and watermelon to everyone on campus without fear of bankruptcy. The congeniality of strangers who couldn’t help recognizing the only other person in the hall at the same time day after day — a symptom of conditions existing only at smaller schools — was also evident. I i

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Opposite page Sitting through English NO at 10am. noon and 2 p.m. art Dave Wolfmeyer of Shawano, top left, Cynthia Wilke of Horicon. top right, and Ray DeSota. bottom. Thu page After all has been said and done, the desk has been lost in the shuffle The desks will be rearranged before the next day's classes, but who knows which desk will end up where. Actually, it really doesn't matter—after you sit in one desk, it seems like you've sat in them all DAV pN

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STRANGELY QUIET Freshman orientation along with decision , advice, endless form to read and fill out and ID picture were a much a part of UWEC ' summer a ua the distribution of free ice cream