College holds 50th anniversary celebration
BC faculty and student from past and present celebrate "Move from the Hill" in the John Collins Campus Center
Katherine J. White
Issue date: 5/11/06 Section: News
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The April 21celebration was held in the newly anointed John Collins Campus Center, formerly known as simply the Campus Center.
The evening began with a vast assortment of current and former BC students milling around both BC's cafeteria and Fireside Room, chatting and browsing through copies of BC's 1956 yearbook Raconteur, as well as photo albums that included a picture of former California Gov. Jerry Brown sitting with BC faculty.
Former BC students at the event had mostly praise for the college.
Pam Knight, whose maiden name was Taylor as a BC student, was a BC cheerleader in 1957.
Speaking of her BC experience, Knight said enthusiastically, "We (cheerleaders and students) had fun!"
Harriet Shelton, class of 1939, was a BC athlete, and she played on the BC women's tennis team.
"I thought BC was a great place to go," Shelton said. However, Shelton also remarked that she was dismayed that, as a woman, she could not play softball at BC.
"In 1939 they (schools and colleges) were very prejudiced about women athletes and about women playing softball," she said.
Asked if he enjoyed his BC experience, John B. Gillett, 85, and owner of Webster's Sand and Gravel for 50 years, said, "Sure."
Gillett, a BC student from 1939 to 1940, was a halfback on the BC football team then. Gillett said he left BC to enlist in the military during World War II, and after he finished his tour of duty, he said he went straight into the business world.
A few students said their BC experience was quite uplifting.
Micki Burcher, class of 1958, was a student journalist working on the Renegade Rip writing articles and taking photos. With a 4x5 speed graphic camera, and flying in a helicopter above the area designated for the new BC campus, Burcher got what she said was a "fantastic" panoramic view and shot of the location.
She remarked, "The digital cameras they use now make me feel old."
Former BC student Martha Covey, class of 1985, and a part of the Gourmet Group, which was, she said, a "social thing -- BC instructors getting together to eat dinner," said she had a "great time" at BC, which she said had a "lovely campus with lovely people." She also commented that she made a "lovely transition from BC to CSUB," but she said
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