My Aspirations thwarted by reality, I stand with my feet in the gutter, but I gaze at a star. The world about me is tar different from what I expected to find. Concrete, bricks, and masses of protoplasm replace my dreams of Olympus. How do I reconcile my expectations with fact? I grow. 5Dazed freshmen stumble wide-eyed and bewildered into a wheeling world of change. Who says a freshmen can not bring an accumulation of eighteen years to school? It only takes three weeks of planning and two weeks of actual packing. Home has become just a place to visit . . . The life of being on "your own" has begun.

A year book was published for Valdosta State College from 1925-1977, under the name The Pinecone. From 1981-1987, a yearbook was published called Milestones. Valdosta State University had three names during this period, Georgia State Womans College, 1925-1950; Valdosta State College, 1950-1993; and Valdosta State University 1993-present.