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WSC Summer Music Camps in the 1950s usually featured more than one marching band. This group, complete with two band majors and a bevy of twirlers, pose for a photograph in parade formation on the lawn west of the old college clubhouse. One of the Highland Village buildings can be seen in the background.
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Victory Bell (Annex Bell) outside the second campus club house, ca. 1955. The Victory Bell was used to celebrate sports victories and other occasions. This is probably the second of three victory bells belonging to the college. According to Abbott Fay's "Mountain Academia", the first bell was given to WSC by the town of Gunnison but was melted down in a World War II scrap drive. The second bell, a gift of Gunnison Schools, was broken in 1956. The...
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View of the second campus club house from the south, ca. 1960, based on the mature foliage. The sign in front reads "Library Annex"; the building was also used by the Music department (1956 Curecanti) and the Sciences department after the new Student Union was built in 1955. The club house was moved to southwest Gunnison in 1962 where it still stands today.
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Aerial photograph of the WSC campus from the north-northwest, 1952. Mountaineer Bowl is in the foreground; W Mountain is seen across the valley to the south. Escalante Heights, Highland Village, the Industrial Arts temporary buildings, the Clubhouse, Ouray Hall, and the heating plant are all WSC buildings seen in this photograph that no longer exist.