The cover of the KU Alumni Association 2016 calendar.

Time flies. It’s hard to believe but fall finals are wrapping up, Christmas is almost here and in less than two weeks I’ll be swapping out my 2015 wall calendar for a 2016 one. Like many other KU Alumni Association members, no doubt, the one hanging in my cubicle has for years been the KU Alumni Association calendar (they send them out free with the Kansas Alumni magazine, and the photos of campus are always really beautiful).

The 2016 calendar is different; it’s full of vintage campus photos, in celebration of the KU Sesquicentennial.

On the cover is Old North College, KU’s first and only building when the university opened 150 years ago. Inside the calendar, each month features a collage of old photos.

The cover of the KU Alumni Association 2016 calendar.

Some are silly, like the January image of 11 students squeezed onto what appears to be some kind of giant sled contraption on a snowy day in 1928. Some are serious, like February’s shot of a large group of black students on the Strong Hall steps holding signs protesting racial discrimination.

January, from the KU Alumni Association 2016 calendar. The 2016 calendar features vintage photos to mark KU's sesquicentennial.

My personal favorites are June and July. June’s lead photo is of two men carving the original Dyche Hall “grotesques” more than a century ago — in my opinion the most fascinating and mysterious sculptures on campus. July’s lead photo, from 1925, shows bathing suit-clad people swimming, diving and canoeing in Potter Lake. They’re not even drunk or carrying a goal post. How times change.

June, from the KU Alumni Association 2016 calendar. The calendar features vintage photos to mark KU's sesquicentennial.

In other KU alumni news:

• E-mail service ending: Also starting with the new year, on Jan. 1, the Alumni Association will end its email forwarding service that for 15 years has enabled alumni to have an email address ending in @kualumni.org. In an email to alumni, and on the alumni website, the association said problems with email forwarding services were mounting and, as such, KU’s had become unreliable.

“Few universities or alumni associations are still offering forwarding services, and we’ve seen a sharp decrease in new accounts created since 2011. As a result, the KU alumni email forwarding service that began in 2000 has run its course.”

• Mark your (2016) calendars: The 2016 KU Homecoming date has been set. Homecoming week will be Oct. 16 through Oct. 22, culminating with the football game against Oklahoma State University Oct. 22 in Memorial Stadium. The theme will be chosen later.

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