Entries tagged with ‘1972’

Tuesday Trivia: Answered!

Do you know what year the first square dance for Orientation was held? C.1972

Blast from the Past!

These folks are moving books from the first Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library (renamed the Anderson Social Science Center) to the second (and current) Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library in 1972.

Factoid Friday

This photo is of students square dancing. The Square Dance during First-Year Orientation has been a tradition since 1972. The legend of the Gustie Square dance says that you will marry the person you dance with. How many of you out here actually married your square dance partner? Answer below!

View from the Hill

It is Saint Lucia Day at Gustavus Adolphus College! This is the St. Lucia Court of 1972.

View from the Hill

Here is the 1972 Gustavus “Bees”  women’s basketball team photograph. This picture includes: Connie Yealing, Tonya Mouw ’75, Carol Planteen Woltzen ’73, Roxy Swenson ’72, Janet Nietz McCarty ’73, Susan Gustafson Pikrallidas ’73, Chris Mathieu ’74, Coach Gretchen Koehler, Cathy Almen Nelson ’75, Kathy Nissen Goodrich ’73, Janet Larson ’74, Virginia ‘Jenny’ Caine ’73, and […]