The Furman University Libraries’ Digital Collections Center recently added the years 1961-1970 to the online collection of Bonhomie yearbooks. This latest batch of yearbooks is especially meaningful, because it covers the Civil Rights Era and the integration of Furman University. You can see numerous photographs of Joe Vaughn (the first African-American undergraduate student) starting in the 1966 yearbook.
This growing collection will ultimately contain digitized copies of all the Furman University and Greenville Woman’s College yearbooks. Currently, the collection includes the Furman University Bonhomie yearbooks, dating 1901 – 1970.
Images from the 1968 Bonhomie. The caption reads: For the students, however, the library is much more than just a center of scholarly materials. It is a place to go to get away from people or to get together with people, to collect one’s thoughts or to quietly exchange ideas, to read the paper from home you can’t afford to take, to find the graduate catalogue you need, or to look up the author of your parallel book before supper. It is a frustrating place to be sometimes, especially if the book you want is on the second floor and you’re downstairs, but it’s also the place to go if you’re frustrated by an assignment that is just too hard.
Heard interview of Glenn Close. She sang with touring group Up With People when they visited Furman, between September 1967-May 1969, based on the dates she gave. Pictures in a bonhomie from that time?
Jim,
What a great question! While there is nothing in the Yearbooks, you can read about it in the student newspaper here: https://cdm16821.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16821coll21/id/9107/rec/3
I love these images! The more things change, the more they stay the same. 😀