One of the older traditions on campus involved taking a group photo of the entering class during new students week. Here the class of 1961 poses for a photo in mid-September of 1957.  Interestingly, the photographer, Roy Young, was not chosen simply because his studio was nearby in Mt. Vernon, Iowa. Rather, Young was a highly sought after “specialist in large group photography” who photographed at colleges and military installations around the country–as far afield as Georgia and Florida.  Young used a variety of large-format cameras, such as “view” cameras, “banquet” cameras, and “Cirkut” cameras (shown below) that could revolve and pivot for panoramic, group photographs. It took a fair amount of skill and technical equipment to capture hundreds of faces in clear focus.