University of Denver - Kynewisbok Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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Some students attended Freshman Camp to be “enlightened and fulfilled Freshman Camp offered many students a first close-up view of the mountains. Seven hundred freshmen evacuated the campus on October 7 to attend Freshman Camp — the long-waited and badly needed chance to ask questions of faculty and upperclassmen about the University, to compare notes with other freshmen, to be in the mountains and to be “enlightened and fulfilled (as the brochure read). Many freshmen climbed their first mountain that week-end. Colorado weather bluffed the campus into thinking winter had arrived when, on October 14, the first heavy, wet snow fell. Trees still decked out in autumn foliage sagged and broke under the massive loads of white. Students took one look out their windows, yelled “Are you kidding me!?” and gleefully decided to swap classes for a snowball fight or a few extra hours sleep. Tau Kappa Epsilon brought The Association to the SU Lounge for an all-campus dance. Playing to a hot, hand-clapping, swaying room of bobbing heads, their music and their rhythm left the capacity crowd stomping and whistling for more. 27

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Tau Kappa Epsilon’s dance with the Association left the crowd stomping and whistling for more. October 14th’s snowfall left the campus buried under snow-covered branches.

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English professor Robert . Richardson, right, adds some informal pointers on leadership to the techniques demonstrated in more structured sessions. Tumbling River Ranch, framed by patches of snow, bare-limbed aspens and a warm wisp of smoke, housed campus leuders and their mentors for a weekend of how-to.' Leadership Conference — and the Big Men and Women On Campus rolled off to Tumbling River Ranch in the mountains for a weekend of intensive seminars and discussions on interpersonal communications and group dynamics. The speech department sent fourteen faculty members to direct the sessions from which many students returned with a deeper awareness of themselves and the people around them. The DU theatre opened its 1966-67 season with a successful presentation of Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons.” Both the people of Denver and the students of the University paid the show the highest accolade possible — the demand for tickets was so great that an extra weekend performance was scheduled. By October 25 the Colorado weather had turned to sunshine and shirt sleeves. No hint remained of the previous snowfall — except for a few broken branches from trees which still held their leaves. Any cultural gaps remaining in the total picture of a “college education” were filled by the Lamont School of Music when it sponsored a concert by the University of Denver Symphony Orchestra on October 26. Parents’ Weekend was meticulously scheduled and detailed. Some students were bored because their parents came, others were disappointed l ecause theirs didn’t, and still others were adopted by visiting parents.