University of Wyoming - WYO Yearbook (Laramie, WY)

Page 22 text:

Over 12,000 people crowded into the War Memorial Fieldhouse to hear President Kennedy ' s address. Accomponied by U.S. Senators Gale McGee (D-Wyo) and Lee Metcalf (D-Mont.), President Kennedy was escorted from his plane to a waiting convertible. Heaven gives its favourites President Kennedy and Senator McGee paused to chat with Bl Editor, Kothy Karpan, and other members of the press. President Kennedy, accompanied by Senator McGee, greeted cheering crowds of Wyoming-ites, on his way to the Fieldhouse. On September 25, 1 963, the town of Laramie, and the University of Wyoming were honored by a visit of John F. Kennedy, Pres- ident of the United States. Kennedy was both surprised and pleased by the numbers of local citizens who turned out to hear his address on the conservation of western resources. Kennedy was most favorably impressed by the attractiveness of the UW campus. En- hanced by glorious weather, the physical beauty of the campus seemed especially at- tractive on September 25. Kennedy was so impressed by the turnout of students that he almost decided to change his topic from con- servation to the challenges of education. Kennedy was the first President to visit Wyoming since the visit by Harry S. Truman, during his administration as chief executive. Thus Wyo ming citizens felt special pride when John Kennedy ' s last words as he left the state were, I ' ll be back .

Page 21 text:

Alpha Chi Omega goes Arabian as Dorothy Burger, Sheila Constantino, Lynn Grado, and Mary Ponder portroy an Oriental scene. Sorority rush is o very exciting time for rushees, it is on enjoyable experience for active sorority women, also, but it involves a greater amount of hard work on their part. Each night of rush week, sorority houses are transformed from the lovely residences which they normally are, into entirely different worlds. Some rush party themes enter into the mystic — the world of celestial bliss — while others take the rushees into distant corners of the earth. Some ore down to earth, dealing with present campus trends, while others enter toyland, or the world of the fairy land of childhood. The pictures on these two pages aply represent the typical — and even the atypical rush parties on sorority row. Mary Ann Riedel, Rita Christensen, Sue Stanfield, Sharon Majors, and Debora Rus- sell transport the Chi Omega house into a Poris setting. Sharon Rice, Lydetta Bailey, Martha Dougherty, Billie Hacker, ond Mary Ellen Bates help the Gamma Phis portray a South Pacific theme.

Page 23 text:

Less than two months after the University of Wyoming was honored by a visit by President John F. Ken- nedy, an assassin ' s bullet took the life of the nation ' s Chief Executive. The University was especially sorrowful as it joined the nation, and the world in mourning the loss of the leader of the United States. Classes were dismissed November 22 and 25 in accordance with the National Day of Mourning, proclaimed by President Johnson. The solitude and solumnity of the flag, flying at half-mast over Prexy ' s Pasture, and the bowed heads of the two students in passing the flag, ex- press, only in part, the feeling of sorrow and deep regret which prevailed throughout the campus. early death. yron, •Childe Harold )