Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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the Center also serves as the site of formally ar- ranged affairs. Pictured above is the large banquet climaxing the college’s Career Weekend. At this occasion Wabash alumni outstanding in business and the professions are invited back to meet with students. This provides a possibility for students to acquire personal information concerning career opportunities in the various fields represented. The Campus Center plays an important role in this en- tire weekend. Individual meetings are held in the North and South Mezzanines as well as the Publi- cations Office downstairs and in the main lounge. As a finale to the entire weekend, all of the partici- pating students, alumni, and faculty members are invited to attend the luncheon pictured on the preceding page. In normal circumstances, however, the meals served in the Campus Center dining hall are much less formal, as can be seen from the men below in line. Nearly all of the independent men, along with those fraternity men still retaining meal contracts, take advantage of the college meal service offered through the Campus Center facilities. Not actually run by the college itself, the food service is handled Students stroll past the rows of food at the regular evening meal, held cafeteria style.

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Students and alums dine together at the annual Career Weekend banquet held in the Campus Center dining hall. Campus Center the hub of Wabash... As difficult to define as the Wabash man himself is the place of the building pictured in this section —the Campus Center. Here the Wabash student continually returns, here to the center of countless Freshman Sundays, class reunions, dances, dinners, discussions and lec- No one other facet of the campus personality so completely embodies the spirit of the college. The arena for tures, arguments—in short, college life. bull sessions, a pocket sized library, Pullman car, dining hall, intellectual hip-flask, call it what you like; in any language the Campus Center combines its many aspects to equal the variety in the Little Giants themselves. In the following pages we hope to describe the college through our greatest citi- zens, namely the Campus Center and the student body. Not just acting as a gathering place for students,

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Employees find time to browse through their merchandise with a customer in the college bookstore. by Saga Food Service under the direction of Mr. Paul Kleis. Mr. Kleis and his aids provide a total of twenty meals per week—three on weekdays but only two on Sunday—throughout the college year for those with contracts. Faculty members, guests, and anyone else not holding a meal contract may eat individual meals on a cash basis. The number of faculty members and guests attending often 6 turns the average meal into a stimulating conversa- tion which can adjourn to the comfort of the nearby lounge or simply remain at the tables. Here a word about the lounge might well be in order. The entire south portion of the first floor of the building is devoted to a lounge area, where students can relax in informal discussions or card games, and can also make use of the excellent piano