Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday March IIP Po rfraif m Aggie &§ ' 4-- By Kristi Glissmeyer staff writer Her license plate reads AGGIES By her own admission Barbara Hales is a Aggie And she’s been one for more dyed-in-the-wo- ol than 35 years A Utah State University theater arts department professor Hales graduated from USU in 1950 she is the only woman among 10 USU graduates of 1950 who now teach at the university Hales is no stranger to being different She got an early start on college graduating from 'high school at the age of 16 and going on to obtain a two-yeteaching certificate from Idaho State University After teaching for a year she came to USU at the - ar age of 18 Hales was Just past 21 when she graduated from USU with a bachelor’s degree in speech and elementary education The challenge was put to her to pursue a masters degree “Women Just didn’t do that in those days” Hales said “But I’ve always been one to be a little different from the crowd" Hales was one of 30 women in her 1950 graduating class of 1350 Pursuing a masters degree made her one in a dosen female students to do so At 23 she received a masters degree in speech correction “I don't remember being denied anything I was interested in But then I was in a traditional female profession of teaching" she said When she began her masters program in speech correction she was often the only woman in the upper division classes “I was one of very few" she said “Now it is so common to see women with PhDs I admire them so much and wish I had had the same direction in my education In those days most women were to get an education and get married If they didn't get married were expected to continue their education or work they did marry” Hales began teaching at USU “to get out of the house” she said The mother of four said she simply applied at the right time and USU accepted Now three of her children are USU graduates and one is soon to be Hales has seen changes in the university over the past a three decades paid about 11125 in rent each month for a small apartment on 300 East in Logan While attending school she taught half a day earning 990 a month m wages They could attend a matinee for 25 cents each At the beginning of her college experience she lived in a dormitory on campus The rules were “so strict" compared to now said Hales Curfew was at 3:15 pm on weekdays and 10 pm on weekends Men were never She and her college roommates i I said “We were rather naive then when I went to school These students are not naive I don’t know if that’s an advantage or a disadvantage" she said “Society is much more complex now Maybe in a sheltered way we were more secure” Now her classes have open discussions about ideals and issues that in the 1950s “we didn’t even talk about in m private" One example of the more open society was evident when students started a discussion about the gay rights movement — homosexuality was a taboo in the 1950s and something people did not talk about said Hales “Gay then didn’t mean what it means now" she said One thing that has dramatically changed at the USU campus is the feeling of community that was so strong when Hales was an undergraduate She vividly remembers or Aggie clean-u- p day Everybody was responsible to somebody for a M: -- m 3 ®U" “A-Da-y" particular project “We cleaned the place inside outside upside and down" she said “Vigilantes" ran around campus with a fire hose turning it on any student who wasn’t doing his or her duty “It was a day of pride at USU The campus was clean &r m and beautiful and we were all having fun" she said “There was great camaraderie I don't know if students today have the pride in their campus that we did" Of course she said the student body totaled fewer some 4000 people compared to a more recent 10000-plu- s enrollment and it was more homogeneous “We’ve lost some cohesiveness I just don’t feel it" she said “I see it sometimes at the basketball games Fraternities will get together and cheer on the team and Isay ’Cheers to you!’” The Aggie is attempting to revive the tradition to be celebrated during USU's Centennial ‘VJ :V dyed-in-the-wo- ol “A-Da- t r alumna Barbara Hales is a USU 5-- aju i 'WT' tj ligii AMERICA'S TEAM OPEN HOUSE CHRYSLER DODGE COUNTRY USA & CHRYSLER CORPORATION WORKING TO BE THE BEST! 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Must be licensed driver sixteen or older to participate i' allowed in the women's dorms and vice versa The dorm situation has “changed considerably’’ In the 1950s the university was made up mostly of buildings surrounding the Quad a large section of lawn located at the center of campus The old TUB (temporary Union Building) located north of the Merrill Library was where students socialized ate and held dances on weekends Hales said students now are more serious about education than they were when she attended college “But a nuclear age I think changes one’s concept of the future" she said When Hales was pursuing her education the United' States was in the middle of the Korean crisis “I was worried about where the world was headed then if my education mattered if we were all going to be here I think some students may feel the same thing today" she said Students are more knowledgable now than then Hales ill min “jferf Jan 984—23 m J ’70S in the 30 j WHAT ELSE IS THERE? 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