First Structures of York Junior College

Before the buildings on the current campus were built, the plans for some of the structures were very different from where they were actually constructed. The 1960 York Junior College yearbook boasts a map of the "proposed ultimate campus" that has some familiar locations, such as the parking lots and sports fields, but many locations that were changed. The old gymnasium/current humanities building is marked, and the library's original proposed location is on the southern section of the campus instead of the northern. It is very different from the map that is provided in the college's 1968 course catalog, but still recognizable as the basis of the east campus today.

There were very few non-white students represented in the college yearbooks. In the 1960 yearbook, there was one African-American student, a York native who was active in many extracurricular activities (1960 yearbook, pg. 56). There was also only one Japanese-American student in 1960 (1960 yearbook, pg. 61). Even as the decade progressed there were very few non-white students and faculty, and no representation in the student senate (1960 yearbook, pg. 54). In the latter half of the decade, there were occasional African-American members of Greek societies and African-American musicians, including groups that were invited to perform at the college (1968 yearbook, pg. 77).