Varsity Club Spring Semi-Formal dance card/program; Senior Ball Dinner Dance program; Commencement Programs, May 29, 1952; June 3, 1950; June 11, 1950, June 1, 1952, June 4, 1966.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Leonard Dean McCracken and Joan Halcyon Mart met while students at Northern Illinois State Teachers College. Leonard was from McHenry, Illinois, majored in Physical Education and Mathematics, and was a member of the Golf Team. He graduated in 1950 with a Bachelor of Science in Education. He worked in Research and Development at Wilson Sporting Goods, and had retired by 1995. Joan Mart was from DesPlaines, Illinois and graduated from Northern in 1952, also with a BSED. She majored in Physical Education and Fine Arts, and was a member of a number of campus organizations including the Fine Arts Club, Major-Minor, the Daughters of Neptune, and the Women’s Athletic Association. She worked for a time as the Audio-Visual Librarian for the Village of Arlington Heights, where the McCracken’s lived. The materials in this collection were donated by their daughter Jane Swenson on May 14, 2007.