Portland State Magazine Winter 2016

winter 2016 pORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 29 Looking Back FIFTY YEARS AGO, dances were a big part of student life. Photos from the 1966 Viking Yearbook feature students in the height of ’60s fashion doing the jerk, the pony and groovin’ to the music of Herman’s Hermits, the Righteous Brothers and the Rolling Stones, to name a few. The year kicked off with a Halloween dance thrown in an open-air parking garage, following by pajama, Mardi Gras, and Parisian sewer-themed dances—the last one featuring “drains and drunkards, saucy girls in leotards, and bearded gentilshommes,” according to the yearbook. DO YOU KNOW who’s in the photos? Or do you have something to say about this issue of Portland State Magazine . Email your comments to psumag@pdx.edu or send them to Portland State Magazine, Office of University Communications, PO Box 751, Portland OR 97207-0751. We reserve the right to edit letters-to-the-editor for space and clarity.  Groovin’ to the beat