Ripon College Bookstore

Before Barnes & Noble, before Amazon.com...there was the bookstore. Students shop for books at the beginning of the semester sometime during the late 1960s or 1970s.

Welcome Back!

Many of the faculty are back on campus putting the finishing touches on their syllabi. Students will arrive this weekend. Monday afternoon students will finish registration in the Storzer Athletic Center. Pictured above is registration during the 1970s in the Old Gym, which was located just south of the Commons.

Women's Rifle Team

During the 1940s Ripon had both a men's and women's rifle team. The caption from the 1942 Crimson states: "Because the Ripon College women felt that, due to the war situation, Red Cross work should come first, it was necessary to shift and shorten the women's rifle season. Of the four week period, two weeks were spent studying the parts of the gun and the way in which they should be used as well as sighting and zeroing in the rifles. This left only four practices before the record targets were fired. In spite of this and because of the expert guidance of Captain Steinman, the record firing was well done."
Pictured above is Barbara Elsy.

Ripon College Ski Club ca. 1950

Pictured above are members from the Ripon College Ski Club from around 1950. If you were a member of this club or you can identify any of the individuals in the picture please contact me at prellwitza@ripon.edu