Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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- r Your 1976 Chinook is different! We think we’ve accomplished a unique blending of WSU ' s colorful past with our lively contemporary scene. It’s our quiet way of adding a little Bicentennial spirit to the year. Mention “yearbook” and immediately are conjured up images of photographs. The 1976 Chinook has plenty of our traditionally excellent pictorial layouts depicting WSU now and how it used to be. But this book offers a bonus: the staff has labored long hours to add more stories and interesting bits of information to compliment the photographic work. In fact, we ' re thankful to the many campus groups and individuals who helped us compile these vignettes of information which we can share with you. In framing a different picture of WSU, we ' ve focused on individual topics for each two-page spread, creating interest with both words and pictures, instead of the usual pictures-on-a-page waiting for you to fill in the meaning. We wanted to create a book that carried meaning to you; a book that allows you to cement your own memories into the pages. We hope we ' ve succeeded. This is your book. Take time to read it from cover to cover. See how much you ' ve already forgotten; see how much 1975-76 really meant to you; see yourself and your year. Marilyn Pfeifer, Editor V Contents Expressions 17 Events 59 Sports 87 Administration 147 Colleges and Seniors 165 Individuals 217 Royalty 397 Student Involvement 425 ) Reflections 3

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Whenever you ' re listening to a lecture in Bryan Hall, working out in Bohler or Smith Gym, or just walking across campus, you may not consider that countless other students have trod the same steps you have since 1890. Perhaps those past students became successful businessmen or famous political figures; perhaps they took lesser roles in society—but whatever careers they chose for themselves, they affected this university with the traditions they formed and the lives they led here. They left for future students a reputation to live up to — they left stories of hard times, accomplishments, gaiety. . . they left memories that if recorded would fill pages and pages with their history. A large part of WSU ' s history involves tradition. Traditions make a college what it is. Possibly the most humorous and also the most abhorred was the practice of making freshmen wear green caps on their heads as a distinction of their ignorance. The caps were worn from fall to Thanksgiving and from Saint Patrick ' s Day to Campus Day, when they were finally burned in a huge bonfire and their wearers released from the imposing indignities caused thereby. It is doubtful that anyone kept their green cap as a remembrance of college days. Opposite page, top: Pullman as viewed from the campus in 1895. Bottom: The first graduating class, 1897. This page, top left: The girls of Stevens Hall, 1896. Top right: The original Ferry Hall (foreground) and Science Hall, c., 1896. Left: The burning of Ferry Hall, Thanksgiving Eve, 1897, and the remains shortly thereafter. Reflections 5