Bridgewater State College Day

Today I went to Bridgewater State College to attend a reunion (50th) meeting for our upcoming class reunion in June. There were 4 of the 8 committee members there, but we mostly did last-minute wrap-up stuff. I'm creating a PowerPoint presentation highlighting our 4 years at that campus from 1954-1958 and needed to have the committee check it out. While scanning the photos and creating this presentation, I am awed by the massive growth that this institution has undergone in the years that we've been gone. When we were attending classes there, there was one administrative building that housed all the classrooms, the library, the "commuters' lounge", all of the administrative offices, and the auditorium. Now, this sounds like a lot and it must have been a huge building, right? Not! In addition to that one building, there were 2 dorms, a teacher-training school and a gymnasium. All of this in one small quad. Now, the campus sprawls out over much of the surrounding neighborhoods, there are numerous dorms (I think 8 altogether), a couple of campus-centers, huge library, larger gymnasium (that was the first 'new' building and it opened during our senior year), 2 or 3 coommons, football stadium (we didn't have football when I was there), a MBTA train station, and who knows what else. Our classmates are going to get a campus tour via trolleys during the reunion weekend. For those who haven't been on campus since 1958, it will be a shock. Bridgewater is no longer a 'small town', but then, neither is Mendon.