How many ‘71ers?
One of you asked me how many classmates we have had... I had been trying to get the official count. When I was at Karen Olson, the late Leslie Milam Zinza's partner's home, I found Leslie's "Gallaudet College: Catalogue, 1966" and read it through. It has the statistics! So I emailed the Gallaudet Archives for the annual report from 1967-1972.
Prep Year: 233 (98 girls and 135 boys); total undergraduate students on campus: 872.
(Gallaudet College Catalogue, 1967-68, p.92)
Note: (About 50 were admitted to Frosh according to one '70er)
Frosh Year: 269 (115 girls; 154 boys; 50 of them were new students); total undergraduate students on campus: 968
(Gallaudet College Catalogue, 1968-69, p.92)
Soph Year: 146 (74 girls; 72 boys); total undergraduate students on campus: 982
(Gallaudet College Catalogue, 1969-70, p.94)
Junior Year: 135 (68 girls and 67 boys); total undergraduate students on campus: 1021
(Gallaudet College Annual Report, 1969-70, p.22)
Senior Year: 114 (59 girls and 55 boys); total undergraduate students on campus: 1051
(Office of the Registrar, June 30, 1971)
Additional Information: Unofficial Count
Class of 1971 Commencement Booklet
124 received degrees (86 from Class of 1971 (51 girls; 35 boys); 24 from different classes; 14 absentia)
Class of 1972 Commencement Booklet
31 from Class of 1971 (8 girls; 23 boys) received degrees in 1972.
Now another question we do not know so far:
How many of our classmates returned and completed their degrees - what they were called "Never Too Late" students.