Students sitting in the BJC gymnasium for new student orientation. Boise Junior College broke a college enrollment record that year with 1566 students registered for classes.
Former Boise Junior College president Eugene Chaffee and Boise State University executive vice president Richard Bullington with the book Kabuki, the first book purchased with the financial gift to the library by BJC alumnus Yasuhara Shimamura,...
BJC faculty members make a sentimental visit to St. Margaret's Hall, the first home of Boise Junior College, shortly before its demolition in 1959. The two stones above the cornerstone read "Class of 1932" (of St. Margaret's School) and "We...
Boise Junior College faculty in procession on the back lawn of St. Margaret's Hall during commencement ceremonies in 1934. Furthest to the right is professor Dorothy Atkinson who resigned that semester to travel to the Library of Congress to do...
The cast of Bob Stolley's BJC Bronco Round Up radio program. From left to right: Denis Law, piano and singer; Ed Grabner, news; Bob Stolley, announcer and programming; Clair White, sports.
Two B Cubes club members pose with a drink dispenser on the west steps of the Administration Building of boise Junior College. The B Cubes was a service club for freshmen women. B Cubes' motto was Boost Boise, Boost Broncos, Boost BJC.
"Boise Junior College students - about 400 of them- took off about ten minutes from classroom activities Monday morning as they staged a pep rally on the steps of the college Administration building. Occasion was the welcoming home of the...
Boise State University; Business people; Marching bands; Drum majors
Harry W. Morrison, longtime trustee and supporter of Boise Junior College (center, in suit and tie), with the BJC marching band on Harry W. Morrison Appreciation Day. Behind Morrison is drum major Richard Nelson. The band was thanking Morrison for...
Boise State University; Business people; Marching bands; Engineers; Construction industry;
At the headquarters of Morrison-Knudsen Company in Boise, Harry W. Morrison, longtime trustee and supporter of Boise Junior College (far right) is greeted by the BJC marching band on Harry W. Morrison Appreciation Day. John Best (in white standing...
Boise State University; Political campaigns; Dormitories
A committee of Boise Junior College students who individually led other supporters in a canvassing project on behalf of a bond measure to build two dormitories at BJC. The Bond measure passed on April 11, 1950, resulting in the construction of...
A college rivalry between College of Idaho, in Caldwell, and Boise Junior College became heated in the late 1940s when BJC students stole the C of I bell and painted it blue. In this picture, two students pose next to the bell with wall of hay...
Boise State University; Parades; Floats (Parades); Automobiles;
A Volkswagen beetle parading through Bronco Stadium with an oversize Cuckoo clock attached to the roof. The clock reads 'Once upon a time the BJC struck the Vandals cuckoo.'
Governor Bob Smylie hands Eugene Chaffee a pen that signed a bill changing Boise Junior College to Boise College. Left to right: Governor Smylie, Larry Mill (shadowed), Glenn Compton, Ted Eberle, and Pres. Chaffee.
Boise State University; Broncos; Homecomings; Mascots
One of Boise Junior College's early traditions was the burning of the bronco, nicknamed Elmer. BJC president Eugene Chaffee described Elmer in his book An Idea Grows: A History of Boise College(page 47): "He began as a wooden or paper mache...
