FOUR DECADES of GETTING STARTED
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rientation exercises at Wayland as we know them today began on campus 41 years ago. Each new student has to face challenges of the mind, body, and heart, and they have to work together to accomplish
a wide range of tasks across campus. Thousands of Wayland students have clambered over a wall and traversed a series of trials composed of wires, ropes, and logs as an introduction to each other and to Wayland. It is remarkable how unchanged those exercises have remained over the past four decades, but equally remarkable is that these exercises were originally created by a group of five Wayland seniors in the spring of 1975 as their Senior Project. With the guidance of math teacher Dave Kasper H`81, those five students, Lea Busse Malak `75, George Socha `75, Sarah Verstegen `75, John Singleton `75, and Glenn Wiedenhoeft `75, constructed a course that is central to the early days of the Wayland experience. We have assembled a few pictures to mark the fourth decade of this living student project in this issue of the Greetings, but thanks to the hard work of Mr. Kasper, we’ve also constructed an online photo repository of thousands of photos from orientation throughout the years.
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