Hampton University - Hamptonian Yearbook (Hampton, VA)

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DL yearLook Staff Nathaniel Marshall Maureea Ellerson Conley C. Abrams Erich Downing Byron B. Hall Julia C. Jenkins — Donald Meeks Mae Louis Smith Betty B. Harris LaVerne E. Fortune Mary E. Nicholas Doris Smith, Robert Martin, Carmel Braden, Majorie Buie, Dorothy Singleton Albert Mundy Editor-in-Chief - Associate Editor -Business Manager Sports Editor Art Editor -Publicity Director Literary Editor Secretary Secretary Typist Typist Bennetta Boswell, Behold! in various throngs the scribbling crew. For notice eager, pass in long review. . . 8

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oreword The recording of events, whether current or long past, should always be left to the Historian. One must always separate the important from the irrelevant; the big from the small. But yet, the small may be important, the large a nuance, and vice versa. Yearbook production requires the separation and classification of persons and events into orderly and sequen¬ tial categories; requires the translation of the material gained therefrom into intelligible phrases and logical pictorial representations. Yet, who is to say what is important and what is not. Who can say if the game is of more import than the dance; the dance of greater relevance than the grill; the lot of them of less importance than the class. Or better yet, is the class subsidiary to the individual. Such are only a few of the fundamental problems faced by the staff of this year ' s HAMPTONIAN. There are always other problems such as the laxity of organizations in subscribing to space, the difficulty of deter¬ mining the classification of individuals, the meeting of production deadlines and innumerable others. Yearbook production then, is at best, a luckless task, a task which to us at times seemed of no less than monumental proportions. The work of the artists seemed to overlap that of the writer; the writer rubbed elbows with the publicist, the publicist with typists, and so on. In short, the lay observer would havg understandably said that all was confusion, and so It might have been. Nevertheless, at the proper time, and in good time, categories became apparent, a flow of material could be seen, sequences were observed and, to summarize, ability engendered with the material at hand and of that union was begot an embryo which grew from fledgling into this fully developed yearbook which you now read. Here then, is your HAMPTONIAN ' 51. Here you are; here are we; here are those we knew; here is the child who fathered the man; the wiser man who was a child. Here is your HAMPTONIAN ' 51. — The Editor. lO