Utah State University - Buzzer Yearbook (Logan, UT)

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the future fm Looking bock we see that times really have changed. Various students with their many and varied talents and fads have come and gone, but Utah State University still lives on. In the early days of the College, the Plant In dustry building was a dormitory until Lund Hall was built. But because after Lund was built if could not hold all the out-of-town students, most of them lived off campus in private housing. Now with the many new dorms, U.S.U. is an on-campus student body. This changed our character, making us closer. Old Main once housed the library and many of the classrooms when the entire College consisted of the buildings around the quad. The Union Building stands where the corrals and stockades for agricultural experimentation once stood. The Art Barn is the last remaining evidence of those days. In the early nineteen hundreds, the girls wore long black stockings to cover their legs as they trudged up Old Main hill in the snow. Now cars drive up the four lane highway of Fourth North, but the long black stockings and deep snow of Logan winters still remain. Long ago, other fads reigned. Many of our parents did the Charleston while going to the A.C. Now we surf on the UB patio. (Maybe the dance isn't so different — just the name of the school.) As more students enrolled at the College, social clubs were formed. The Greeks came on campus when one of the boy's social clubs affiliated with Pi Kappa Alpha. Alpha Chi Omega Sorority once was housed in ' The Castle,' now the Newman Center. In the first days of the school the students were local people wanting to learn about agriculture and home economics. Now U.S.U. has students from all parts of this earth. This year's enrollment reached over 6900, the highest yet of U.S.U. Each new year has brought new instructors, new classes, new activities, and organizations. A continual flow of teors and laughter, happiness and sorrow, and work and play fill the time of college years with memories of this generation's Golden Age. This is all a part of Utah State University of 1965, and of you. But time does not stop or alter its passing for these wishes, dreams, or memories; and 1965, too, will pass leaving. . . The future of Utah State University, whether planned or chance, will bring the fulfillment of over a half a century of dreams, far surpassing the beginning dreams and ideas of its founders. Present plans call for over fifty million dollars in new facilities within the next decade to accommodate the stronger current of over 11,000 new students. What fate will bring to U.S.U. cannot be foretold. Great men, outstanding leaders, financial and mental wizards may all be produced out of the masses attending U.S.U. Time is going to change the look of the Utah State University campus as if keeps pace with this rapidly growing nation. Utah State University may mature and mellow in the future, but it will always retain its youthful spirit and vitality. Its students, ever young and fresh will become a part of U.S.U. and in turn, U.S.U. will become a part of them. Many years from now when your wishes and dreams have either been fulfilled or forgotten, look back to Utah State University and 1965 to see just how much has happened to this changing, surging current of the Aggies. 5