Missouri State University - Ozarko Yearbook (Springfield, MO)

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College yearbooks, like the friendships of which they remind us, grow steadily in our appreciation as the years go by. So long as we have the living realities of our friends and classmates close about us we are unmindful of the full significance of a volume of this sort. With the relentless passing of the years our college friends disperse to their diverse destinies and then we perceive the true meaning of our memory book . Realizing the true meaning of this type of publication our college inaugurated a yearbook very early in its history. The first volume was published in l909. Happily, the original volume bore the very appro- priate title of OzarkO which the publication still carries. The original annual was christened by a bit of verse from the pen of Ralph Anderson, distinguished debater, class orator, star athlete, and member of the first 0zarkO staff. This literary effort which follows has gathered through the intervening years an additional claim to immortality in the form of historical value. Midst the forests of the Ozarks where the scenes with beauty glow, Where the broolalets clear as crystal seem to carry as they flow, Happy greetings from the mountains to the valley green belofwg Where the wheat-fields' golden yellow colors all a deeper hue And afar a-cross the valley seems to mingle with the blueg Where the air so clear, refreshing, seems to give you life anew, It is here the weary stranger as he travels through the land, Knows there is a law, unwritten, which of all makes this demand That all visitors, though enemies, receive a w'elcome hand. Here the people, peaceful neighbors, seem to gather as they go Common sense with education, 'til they soon begin to know That the grandest land in all the world is that of OZARKO. No intelligent and thorough study of the history of the college can be made without frequent reference to the OzarkO. May it con- tinue to record the historical heart beats of the institution. We

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PRESIDENT IQDY EllIS president Roy Ellis is a son of our own Southwest Missouri. He was born in Seymour, Missouri, March 9, l888. lt was in the Ozark hills that he learned to know' the needs and likes of the people of Southwest Missouri. He was a student in our college from l909-l9i l. From here he went to the University of Missouri, and in l9l4 received his A. B. and B. S. degrees in Education. ln l9l7 he received his A. M. from Harvard, and later studied at Columbia, earning his Ph. D. in l93O. Dr. Ellis came back to S. T. C. as a teacher of economics and in 1926 he was elected president of our college.

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i l Sl rss N is walter l. Baker is auditor of the college and Secretary of the Board of Regents. As auditor, he collects all funds and makes all disburse- ments. He also makes all finan- cial reports to both state and national officials. Mr. Baker's pleasant humor has made him very popular with the students. I-ee H. Morris is the Business Manager of our College. As administrator of the college bud- get, he must know at all times how the finances of the college agree with the state budget. lt is his duty to purchase equipment for all departments. The physi- cal plant is directly under his control. lt is part of his duty to employ all student labor'and to direct its disposition., The book- store is under his direction. Be- cause of his geniality, and fair and ethical dealing, he has earned the universal respect and good will of those with whom he deals. DITUIQ