University of Denver - Kynewisbok Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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Fall Activities Freshmen had a chance to meet Acting Chancellor and Mrs. Miller at the Chancellors Tea. Dr. Brack, Dr. Yourgrau, Dean Lindell, and Dr. Driscoll participated in a panel, “The University Professor Looks at the Student, one of the many optional activities during Pioneer Week.

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 4 AV The University of Denver granted its first degree to a president of the United States when, on August 26, 1966, Lyndon Baines Johnson received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. 19

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 Maybe I should get out while the gettins good — reaction of some students during the millions of Pioneer Week meetings. The year at DU opened up slowly—like a relaxed yawn at the end of a hot summer afternoon. During a vague sometime around the middle of Septeml)er, tanned students began drifting back to the University and to the mountains. The Creeks returned to clean house and plan parties, ice-water teas and skits for rush. Upperclassmen who lived off campus came back to hunt for new apartments or to resettle themselves in old ones. With registration and classes off in the future—a week or two out of mind—most sat back, languishing in good spirits and the clear, fresh air of the high country. They waited for Sunday the 18th for the freshmen to tumble out of planes and cars under six trunks, two guitars and a pair of skis. They waited for the fun to officially begin. At ten o’clock that Sunday morning the residence hall doors were unlocked to ad- mit ll(K) separate turmoils—and the 1966-67 year of campus activity began. Officially, the title beginning Sunday was Pioneer Week. Unofficially, it was laughingly-cryingly referred to as Organized Chaos. Freshmen met their Pioneer Guides, their Big Sisters, their roommates —and scurried around trying to look and act like they knew what was going on. They dumped load after load in new rooms, attempting to arrange drawers and closets around teary-oved mothers and fathers with backaches. In the midst of l ewildered grins and nail-chewing confusion. the new names, new faces and new surroundings, the green, insecure class of 1970 met their Acting Chancellor Miller at the tea for them and their parents, and filed along behind their Guides on campus tours. That evening they found themselves herded into the arena for sack lunches, administration addresses and l eanie-buy-ing. 21