Eastern Michigan University - Aurora Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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Every book of this nature, no matter how strongly its unity may bear the impress of the authors, or how much its attractive organization and completeness of material may appeal to. the reader, loses much of its value if its contents are not readily accessi- ble. Witli this real need in mind We have arranged as far as possible every portion of the entire book so that it may be easily recognized. A general list of contents at the beginning points to the more important subdivisions of the book, whi-ch, as the pages. are all numbered, can be readily found. An entirely new idea. which it has been impossible to carry out completely this year, but which, we hope, will be attained in the. ensuing numbers of the Aurora, is the alphabetical arrangement of the senior portraits. I 'When one stops to consider that this' year over a hundred photos more than any previous year were entered. that so great was the desire that they came in all manner' of sizes, and then that they must be reduced Finally to the same size for engraving purposes, one can Form a slight conception of the difhculties to be overcome. We held to our purpose with doggedness, and seem to have been rewarded. With the exception of the last two pages of the Senior Portraits sections, whose owners had reserved space but could not get their pictures any earlier, all of the four hundred and twenty Seniors are arranged alphabetically. Thus the task of plodding patiently through the volume until you find a person you wish to see,is eliminated, and the value of this section correspondingly increased. The groups are arranged in a unique fashion. new as far as we know among college annuals, and explained in the preface preceding the Organization section, wherein is a further explanation of this feature. ln Athletics the same general s-cheme has been followed. Each picture has its list of names underneath. correspondingly placed so as to identify any or all of the persons contained in it At the end of the volume is a detailed index. which we have made as concise and handy as possible in the space which we were able to set aside for it. Full-page illustrations have also been included in this list. The fact that all of the Seniors are arranged alphabetically has eliminated printing their names here. while the indexing of all the organizations will sufficiently :iid in locating other students. ln this way. despite the diih-cultics encountered. we cannot but feel that the volume has gained in a usefulness, which was worth while struggling for. The art work in this year's book is such as to call forth some iust pride. A high standard wars set at the outset and all drawings Hnally accepted were compelled to attain it. We feel that it is no more than due to voice our appreciation of the splendid co-operative efforts of all those who have assisted ns in this department. Miss Louise Howard, '12, had charge of this work and it is our opinion that she has acquitted herself very creditably. We wish to sincerely thank Frederick B..Cleveringa, '12, to whom we are inde'bted for the In Memoriam, the enclosures of the class aind Alumni headings, and for other drawings scattered throughout the book, to Miss Edna Kerns, '12, for the frontispiece Aurora, to Miss Adelaide 'MacVicar, '11, for the Vespers and the Minerva, to 'Charles C. Stratton. '12 B. Pd.. for his apt cartoons, to Miss Nettie Phinney, '13, to 'Miss I. C. Hurst, '12, and to G. W. Willard, for miscellaneous drawings and routine work in this department. We desire also to extend our hearty thanks to Malcolm D. 'MacVicar. an Alumnus '10, who so kindly advised us and whose very able efforts are responsible for the various headings of the Athletics department, the 'Sororities, Class Rivalry and jokes sections, as well as the Studies in Black and VVhite at the top of the pages in the latter. It was under the direction and able assistance of su-ch persons that ,our work along art lines made splendid progress. lt was a real pleasure to see such co-operative activity. There is still another matter which has made working on the Nineteen-Hundred Twelve Aurora a pleasure. We refer to the staunch loyalty shown us by the larg- est Senior class that ever graced the halls of our campus, as well as the able assistance by the enthusiastic juniors and the dignified Degrees The present Aurora has set records in every line, but it is due entirely to their co-operation. 'Over a thousand copies-three hundred more than any previous year-have been contracted for. and more than that number will be printed. A splendid corps of thirty student agents, drawn from all classes and every one of whom met with a good reception, were the means of our reaching this record total. The call for Senior portraits was just as eagerly answered with record-breaking results. ln line with the campaign of adver- tising, it is to these two leading factors that we must ascribe the success of that chief of all phasels important in the publication of an annual-the Ernances. We repeat our hearty appreciation and only wish that succeeding Aurora Boards will' find similar loyal. continued and enthusiastic co-operation. Finally, as Editor-in-Chief and Business Manager, We feel it incumbent upon oni- selves to thank our associates on the Board. It has been a long, steady grind, but we had builded on faith and results did not disappoint us. Miss Inez Bayes, Assistant Editor-in-Chief, Miss Louise I-loward, Miss Madeline Gerber, Earle Pitltcniger, John T. Symons. ,Toy V. Wigle, anld D. Trlarold Dickerson, all in their respective departments ot work and according to the measure of their expectations, did good work. They were ever ready, whenever called upon. to perform any tasks assigned, as well as assisting willingly in the routine work of the office. To the faculty advisory board, do we also wish to extend our thanks for their interest shown and their advice which they So willingly gave. There is no doubt that as the friends of our Alma Mater read this book. that they will discover Flaws and features which perhaps could have been improved. Our only consolation lies in the fart that we have no apologies to make. The work has called forth our best efforts, and our hope is that it may meet with the approval of the -classes and the college which we have represented in this work.

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Gbur 3'Hnrm11nrh The three captions: unity, what we might well designate as organized informality rep- resentative of the college's activities, and accessibility, aptly describe the three-fold aim which the -present board set before itself when it undertook the prolonged and difhcult duty of preparing the Nineteen-Hundred-Twelve Aurora ' The anniversary character of the col1ege's history this year has been constantly lliept in mind. The illustrated history of our Alma Mater, with occasional touches of istoric 1 t - ' ' ' ' A n erest scattered throughout the following pages emphasize this fact. While the retirement of our esteemed President Lewis I-1 Jones, after a decade of valued andtde-voted service in behalf of our educational welfare has called from us the voluntary ilgdigatilgn of this volume in his honor, together withlthe appreciative sketch of. his 1 e y rof. D. H. Roberts, Superintendent of the Training School, who has officially and socially been intimately in touch with President Jones. The commemoration of the establishing of our Alma Mater and the -culmination of the successful administration of its retiring President, presents the general student body, and the graduating classes in particular, with an opportunity to congratulate themselves on the enjoyment of attendance in this year. Around this dual fact, conse- quently, the Aurora has been constructed. The organization of the material has been along somewhat different lines than heretofore. The increased num-ber of pages and careful economy in the use of space has given ,better chance of enlarging upon some sections and also of introducing entirely new features calculated to heighten the interest of the faculty, students and Alumni in a published record of college activities. The volume contains the portraits of the State Board of Edu-cation, who are in actual charge of our and similar institutions. This has seldom been inserted in the Aurora. In addition to a short sketch of each building being given, a personal glimpse of the head of each department at his desk before the class, has been secured with more or less extended accounts of each faculty member. Believing that true democracy demands that ea-ch individual shall be given his just due this year the Aurora Board decided to allow room for tl1e enumeration of activities in which the student whose photograph was given, was concerned. To better acomplish this, this year the portraits were arranged in vertical order, but in such a manner that the portraits on the right and left strips on each page alternated, thus avoiding confusion and adding to the symmetry of the page. The Degree and Junior classes, and the Alumni have been courteously dealt with, each being given the number of pages it desired. The Literary section. instead of being a mere -collection of essays or descriptions -by persons selected by the Board, consists of one page excerpts of the three orations rendered by those persons who won the right to represent the college at a regular oratorical contestg as well as extracts of the class day participants' productions, whether it be a salutatory, a history. a poem or a valedictory. by persons chosen for their particular duties by the Senior class. In this way. 'we think we have secured a literary section that is really representative of the college in general and the graduates in particular. Although the department of Organizations has in general remained the same as heretofore, a new sub-section, Sectional Clubs, has been set aside to include all societies whose chief cause for organization lies in the fact that its members have come from the same vicinity. In the department of Athletics .it has been the -constant aim of the Board ,to exalt no one individual, but rather to give his just due to each member who helped to make this phase of college activity. Here we wish to call attention to what we think is an especially good feature-namely, the action pictures of the players in the various forms of indoor and outdoor athletics. We respectfully acknowledge the kind use of the Science Department. camera, and are very much indebted to the capable services of .Joy V.. Wnlgle, '12, without whose photographic .aid these pictures would have been an impossibility. Elsewhere in the volume I. L. Fisk, 12 B. Pd., has also kindly allowed us to use a number of pictures snapped. on the campus, for which we express our gratitude. It is co-operation of this kind that makes the getting out of the iAurora a distinct pleasure. An innovation is the publish- ing of the new Normal Field Song, of which Mr. Fisk 'and -George P. Becker, 12. are the joint author and composer, who have made us their de'btors by'permttt1ng usnto use it as a feature in this department. An entirely newldeparture is that of pla-cmg all that form of athletic rivalry which can properly be designated as a contest between CIRISSCS under the heading Class Rivalry. The splendid struggle -between the Seniors and juniors, unprecedented with its resultant enthusiasm, seemed to us to necessitate and merit this distinction. Thus in reality. the 'iiAti1iCtICS department has become larger than ever before, and an added dignity given to the Senior-junior-inter-class meets. We appreciate the assistance of the officers of 'both -classes in their efforts to make this new feature a success. The Jokes section has been curtailed in its number of pages. We feel that it is in reality an invasion of the field- of. tllC'FOf11l3i news. which can furnish college humor which will be both temporary in its va ue an .up-.to- date in its point and pun. lAnd as the large number of students at our irrstlltutipn makes it practically impossible for more than a few to see the point of any J0 Qi tae Board has followed the policy of selecting only those which are general and vglnl e easily understood. For this purpose several full-size page cartoons have fbeen rawlp, and black and white top-liners . have been secured to grace the top o every Jo e page, all of which merit general interest.

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