University of Wisconsin River Falls - Meletean Yearbook (River Falls, WI)

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 The Board of Regents, quite obviously with its eye to future intellectual and physical growth, appointed former University of Wisconsin Vice President Dr. George R. Field as its president on August 1,1968. Field, a relatively young college president at 39, replaced Dr. Richard J. Delorit, academic vice president at River Falls, who served as acting president during the 1967-68 school year. Generally, students, in walking from class to class, idea to idea, belief to belief, on the R F campus, throughout the 1968-69 school year, found it a time of pleasant change and stimulating growth. 5

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 Large enough to offer a wide variety of courses, activities, and social events; small enough for the personal touch I was the phrase used by the official publication of the Wisconsin State System in describing its nine state universities. This description accurately characterizes the growth experienced by the River Falls campus both in enrollment and in educational facilities. The record number of approximately 1200 freshmen which increased total enrollment to 4,052 portrays the fact that River Falls is a growing school, yet a school where students are still identified by name. The fact that both the newly enrolled freshmen and returning upperclassmen, upon returning in the fall of 1968, were welcomed with the opening of two newly constructed dormitories plus the addition of a student center and food and recreation area shows that the university system is not only expectant of but also prepared for its growing enrollment. A two-floor addition to the library, opened in late November, and the origin of a campus radio station early in November also characterized the forward progression of the university and its students.

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The Old Library Makes Way