Latest Additions to Residence Halls Have Plush Features
“The newest additions to Goldsworth Valley, Fox, Stinson, Eldridge, and the Harrison Halls are still without niceties like paintings and lounge lamps, but otherwise have been just fine for their new directors, staff assistants, and students.
The new Goldsworth foursome may look like their counterparts nos. 1 and 2 from the outside, but there are some differences. Each floor has a private study room, like the “quiet room” downstairs in the others, and the corridor floors are carpeted. Each has a separate TV room.
Otherwise, they are carbon copies of Complexes 1 and 2, says Housing Director Archie Potter.
Each unit has a slightly smaller capacity because of the study room on each floor.
When the new halls opened, all the staff members, switchboard operators, switchboard managers, and dorm officers were chosen. These girls came from other houses on recommendations,” explained Mrs. Friedli, director of Harrison-Stinson Halls.
The only big job left is to get acquainted as soon as possible. Homecoming is the first big project. The girls and I feel that this will give the girls the feeling of belonging to one large dorm instead of two.”
Most U-High Students Disappointed, Not Surprised, at Shut Down
“Only one out of nine high school students seemed ready to “fight rather than switch,” but they weren’t talking about cigarette brands. Instead the subject was the closing of University High in the fall of 1966, and most of the nine U-High students interviewed reacted mildly to the discontinuance of junior and senior high programs at WMU’s Campus School, effective next fall.
All of the students interviewed expressed a desire to continue their education at the Campus School but most maintained a subdued and casual attitude turning conversations with this reporter.
The only real stalwart among those interviewed was one Barry Matthews, a junior, who has attended the Campus School since nursery school. “I don’t want the school to close,” she replied, “because it’s sort of a Matthews tradition. My grandmother attended the Campus School the first year it opened, and it’s ironic that I’ll be going here during the last year the school will be open.”
Another young lady, Kay Ellinger, a sophomore, remarked, “I was more disappointed than surprised when we got the final word. Everyone has had to live with the rumors for more than a year and school spirit has been on the decline.” Kay, who has attended the Campus School since kindergarten, plans on finishing up her high school education at Kalamazoo Central in the fall of 1966.”
WM’s Esther Smith in Atlantic City
“Western’s most famous sophomore isn’t even on campus this week.
But you’d have to say that she probably has an excused absence for the week’s classes.
Esther Lynne Smith, the charming 19-year-old who took the Miss WMU title to Muskegon this summer and brought back the Miss Michigan crown to go with it, is in Atlantic City this week for the “big one”- the Miss America Pageant competition.
The brown-haired, blue-eyed beauty left Sunday for the week-long program, which includes preliminary completion tonight, tomorrow, and Friday nights, and the nationally-televised finals Saturday night.
A freshman at Western last spring, when several of her friends on campus talked her into running for the Miss WMU title, Esther will continue her music curriculum this semester unless the pleasant surprise of a Miss America victory should force her to drop out for a year.
And Lee Mimms, the student who ran the Miss WMU show for the past two years, thinks she has a fine chance: “I’m confident that she’ll have a position in the top 10.” He said. “She’ll go ‘surfing in’ on her great vocal talent.”
Photos and Stories were taken from archived issues of the Western Herald, available at the Zhang Legacy Collections Center on WMU's campus. Compiled by Samantha Macy.