Just a moment in eternity. A collection of the humorous, the sad, the macabre, the touching things in life spread out among 365 days during which the sun rises and sets to a world of happiness, a world of strife, a world of success and a world of failure. Somehow, though, a year seems to lose significance as a collection of days and is instead divided into a series of events. It seems to take an aspect of being assigned—by some particular quirk of fate— to being controlled by some prominent mood or attitude of movement. In its own turn, each subdivision of the world has its own controlling attitude of movement, apparent from the moment that it begins to function. What causes one factor to become dominant no one can fully explain, but nevertheless, it seems to happen. Fort Smith Junior College is no exception to this "control by attitude" way of life. From the first moments of the year, one could see that for we who attended this college that this was the year of growth, the year of reaching for new heights—in enrollment, in participation, in academic achievement, in expansion. With the opening of the doors for the first day of enrollment, it could be seen, growth. Work on a field house was about to begin. A skyrocketing in enrollment was seen. A burst of enthusiasm engulfed the campus—enthusiasm which was to last for an entire year with no slackening of pace. In keeping with this predominant theme of growth, we on the NUMA staff have strived to make •this took a reflection of the year, and in its own turn a symbol of that growth. We feel that like the year this book is the biggest and best yet. We hereby dedicate this book, the 1965 NUMA, to a year in our lives, to a year of growth, to a year of reaching for the topmost peak, to a year of expansion—in intellect, in ability—to a year at Fort Smith Junior College.
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