LibGuides: Photos through the Decades at Meredith College: 1950s

1950s

Students dressed in various folk costumes pose in pairs on the steps of the dining hall.

Folk Dance Club (1950.)

1951 seniors enter Class Day between the daisy chain held by the sophomores.

Posing on the steps of Johnson Hall for Class Day, 1951. During a later building renovation, the steps were removed.

Freshmen in long, formal dresses stand in line to greet the Campbells.

Orientation included a dressy reception with the college president. Here, freshmen meet President Carlyle Campbell and his wife, Marion.

Snow people (Oak Leaves, 1956).

Multiple students seated at desks in a classroom, a professor at the front;. A film projector is at the side of the room.

A class underway in the Education Department, 1956.

Two students hang plaid curtains in the window of their dorm room.

Room decorating.

Arms around each other, a group of women enter Jones Hall

Each year, after a week of campaigning and special recruitment events by the Astros and the Phis, students on campus decided which of the two service societies to join on Decision Day. Here, the Astros welcome their newest members.

A group of students and two horses pose in the horse barn.

Horseback riding classes and clubs were available on the Meredith College campus from after World War II until the late 1980s.

Three students gather around a small kiln.

A pottery class (1952.)

Two students on bicycles with a building and chimney in the background.

Cycling around campus (1954.)

A student iin a lab coat working with a microscope.

A laboratory student (1952.)

During the 1950s, the most promising freshman field hockey player was awarded the "Freshman Hockey Stick." (1953.)

Dance class.

Two students posing in the Heck Fountain. Based on their clothes, it is winter and the founntain has no water.

Playing around in the Heck Fountain.

A woman holding books stand nest to a car in a parking lot.

Commuting "day students" had their own club and a room in Johnson Hall set aside for breaks. (Late 1950s.)

Four students stand at the soda fountain in the BeeHive.

Students gather at the BeeHive for refreshments. At this time, the BeeHive was located in the remains of the old auditorium on the east side of campus and was a casual gathering place.

An archer points toward a target while a rider on horseback waits nearby.

Unless a horse and rider wandered onto the archery range, this is a posed photo west of the original quadrangle. Archery targets are listed in the 1906-1907 Catalogue as available as part of "Physical Culture." Horses began to reappear on campus in 1943-44 and an Equestrian program soon followed.

Several students, one in clown coatume, gather around a table.

A 1955 party in the dining hall.

A line of churces in front of Johnson with students waiting to board.

Church buses spread out to take students to churches around Raleigh. Meredith College did not dictate the denomination, but did require weekly church attendance.