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“Senior Hall,” was constructed in 1935, and is known today as Converse Hall. Like “Junior Hall,” a dorm hostess also resided in the Hall and oversaw building and student activities.

This postcard depicts a view of Spotswood, Sheldon, and Alumnae Halls on the State Teacher’s College campus taken sometime between 1924 and 1927, the time of Sheldon Hall’s first renovation. Both Spotswood and Sheldon were dormitories during this…

Smaller pennants, as well as the large ones displayed here, were also popular with the students. Even during the Madison College era, the rules had not changed regarding wall decorations. Freshmen were told outright that they were “not permitted to…

A march on campus honoring the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. The march is shown here passing Gibbons Dining Hall on their way to the Warren Campus Center where a “speakout” was held to hear community voices and opinions.

This sign replaced and renamed the road that was once Cantrell Avenue in downtown Harrisonburg. Passing on August 13, 2013, the City Council voted to rename the street. The renaming of the street, an action pushed forward with much local support and…

The Breeze printed this image of guys playing one another at a game of chess in a dorm room, while drinking wine and beer. Images like these provide a contrast with earlier photographs of dormitory life. Casual incorporation of alcohol into student…

A fellow student helps another with his hood for the graduation ceremony. In the early 1990s, African Americans comprised almost 10% of the entire undergraduate student body at JMU. [Data retrieved from Office of Institutional Research,…

These students, identified as Becky Lillard and Wendy Coplen, are shown here in Chandler Hall, Suite 310. Posters are attached to the wall, instead of framed pictures, and one of these posters is devoted to alcohol. A Disney character and a…

Converse Hall residents congregate in the hall in the mid-1990s. Halls like these are intermediary space in dormitories; they are public, but many students treat them as extensions of dorm room space for that particular floor rather than…

The completed Spotswood Hall stands behind several young ladies with their parasols. The image also shows the boardwalk that ran through the area and between buildings.