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ALUMNI DAYS 2006: PHOTOGRAPHS AND MEMORIES
The weather wasn't perfect. But oh, what a time we had! We heard Thomas Sutherland -- a member of our class of 1956 -- speak, and Simon Estes -- acclaimed bass baritone -- sing. We took tours of parts of campus that weren't even thought of when we were in school. We visited Reiman Gardens, alive with butterflies. We were inducted into the Gold Medal Club. And we laughed, we talked, and we remembered. Long live Iowa State! These were the best years of our lives.
View photo gallery from Alumni Days 2006 by Jim Heemstra
Hey, class of 1956!
Do you remember?
- The "new" food called "pizza"
- Panty raids at Welch
- Watching Gary Thompson play basketball
- "Hours" in the dorms
- Buying a cheeseburger, French fries, and a Coke at Friley Hall for 50 cents
- Seeing Elvis on one TV in the dorm
- Girls wearing short, neat hair, skirts, swaters with little white collars, and bobby sox
- Caring for a real live baby in the Home Management House
- Singing in the Iowa State Singers
- $50-per-quarter tuition
- Spudnut sundaes
- Ringing the victory bell
- Dogtown
- Formal meals with servers
- One phone for every 50 students
- "5-lb. Parties"
- The lighting of the annual Christmas tree
- $1.00 for a steak dinner
- Walking across campus in the snow and sharp north winds
- Hearing the Bells of Iowa State
- Seeing Louis Armstrong in concert
- VEISHEA cherry pies...for 25 cents
- Canoe races on Lake LaVerne
- Attending classes with WWII veterans
- Sculpture class with Christian Petersen
- Football games in old Clyde Williams Field and wearing big yellow mums
- Performing in SOV
- Friendships that last a lifetime