Missouri State University - Ozarko Yearbook (Springfield, MO)

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1954 Winter term play. Detective Story, Feb- ruary 10. ll, l2. -' Second Annual ROTC Military Ball, February 26. ' Bears won third MIAA basketball cham- pionship, February 26. Bears third in NAIA tournament, March 19. Marilyn Canaday. Ozarko Queen, March 26. Ierry Anderson elected student body president, April 8. Brigadoon, April 26-0. Ierry Anderson named Player of Year by Helms Foundation, April 23. Commencement Exercises for 162 seniors, May 26. Promenaders appeared on Ted Mack's Amateur Hour. Commencement for 153 seniors, August 3. Fall term registration: 1,871. The Male Animal presented as fall term play. Iudy Moore crowned Queen of Oil Prog- ress Week at SMS-Kirksville football, October 15. Homecoming game with Cape Girardeau televised. Queen was Icanne McLin, October 30. SMS won Senior Women's Sweepstakes at Ada, Oklahoma, Speech and Debate Tournament for eighth time, Decem- ber 3. Wintcr term play was Curious Savage. Annual Christmas Formal and Candle- light Service. December 16. Gold Bar, honorary military fraternity, organized in December, 5. to Ex. Ss K gg. t FT Ek 5 Q X Q .tg P S .-g NAIB CHAMPIONSHIP 1951-52 Above: Coach Bob Vaizatta is hoisted to the shoulders of Bill Lea and Ray Bird- song as his wife tries to congratulate him 'on winning the 1951-52 NAIB champion- ship. Coach Vanatta's boys took the title again the next year to become the first team in the history of the tourney to win twice in a row. Below: Jerry Anderson, left, and Art Helms, right, were presented All-American Awards, following the 1952-53 victory, by Al Duer, Executive Secretary of the NAIA, and Bill.Schroeder, Managing Director of NAIA. Jerry, named to the first team, received the Most Valuable Player Award. .Terry graduated in 1954-55 after serving as that year's Student Body President. In Senior Assembly exercises, he was awarded the first William Virgil Cheek Award and it was announced that his basketball number, 43 , would be retired. NAIA ALL-AMERICANS, 1952-53 ll l 5

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DEAN WILLARD I. GRAFF AND FOOTBALL COACH TOMMY 0'BOYLE, 1947 Above: Aclniinistrative Dean Wlillard J. Graff welcomed Tulane Uni'versity's former All-American Tommy O'Boyle in 1947. After two seasons, Coach O'Boyle, currently with the Duke University coaching staff, left SIMS for a coaching posi- tion at Kansas S tate. Dean Graff turned over the position of administrative dean to James E. Bane in 1952 and became superintendent of the Springfield Public School System. Below: Debaters Toni Strong and Yvonne Ray, accompanied by beloved debate mentor Virginia I. Craig, traveled to West Point in 1952 to become the first SMS team to enter the top-flight tournament since its inception six years earlier. Strong and Ray qualified to the semi-finals, making them one of the eight best teams of the thirty-fonr entered. FIRST WEST POINT DEBATE TOURNAMENT TEAM, 1952 I4 'I 5 'Ir A in fr 13 i fl fi fl 76 dll' QXVI. P X UI fl 1 01? f lf' if 1952 Ozarko Queen, Mary Lou Meir. Basketball team won MIAA Conference title: won National NAIB Champion- ship, Kansas City. Highest honor in SMS's 46 years of basketball history. In National Olympic Playoffs against Kansas University Iayhawks, Bears lost 92-65. Bears took 4th in pre- Christmas NAIB tourney at K. C. Three Bears made NAIB All-American group. Hamilton became an alternate to '52 World Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. Champion Team Members: Iim Iulian, Ray Birdsong, Ierry Lumpe. Norm Siebern, Don Duckworth, Bill Lea, Ierry Anderson, Bill Thomas, Fred Stephens, and Forrest Hamilton. Bob Vanatta, coach, received Coach of the Year award from Utico National. Track team won MIAA Indoor and Out- door Meet. Sixth consecutive year as MIAA champs for Tennis team. Golf team, MIAA champions. 1953 Ozarko Queen, Vivian Arnaud. ROTC Military Ball inaugurated on campus. Basketball team set a precedent by win- ning NAIA National Championship for second straight year: MIAA champs. NAIA All-Americans: Forrest Hamil- ton, Don Anielak, Ierry Anderson, and Bill Thomas. Ierry Anderson received Chuck Taylor award for most valuable player of Tournament. Team members: Don Anielak, Art Helms, Forrest Ham- ilton, Ierry Anderson, Bill Thomas, Bill Price, Don Duckworth, Ray Birdsong. and Iohn Grimm.

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1 r 1 SECOND WEST POINT DEBATE TOURNAMENT TEAM, 1955 Above: The second temn invited to the lVe.rt Po-int Debate Tournament was com- posed of Bill Maiynard and Erma Jones. Winning five of eight prel-iminary rounds to qualify for the 16-team eliiminal-ion.v, the SMS learn lost on n sjalrit- decision in the ocio-fintzlr. Bill was judged second best speaker of the lonrnairncnt, and Ernza receivecl the distinction of being the only girl named to the elimination rounds. Coach Holt V. Spicer, a llfcst Point Tourney veteran, accompanied his team to the military academy. Bottom.: A1'l'Gllg6lI1611'fS were made with the Uni- versity of Missouri 'whereby graduated' of accredited colleges conld take one-half of their 'work-for a tile-stef.: degree in Education at Southwest Missouri State. The last half of the work must be clone in residence at the University of M-isconrii. Dorann Lewis, being greeted by President Ellis as Dean Bane looks on, 'war one of several S'MSiles who returned for the S1M1l'7l1L'1' graduate training in English, Education, History and Sociology. ' GRADUATE PROGRAM, 1955 1 -16 QW. it 'S is SS Q' x x Nl . x Q IZ ,. ffme G I I D x lv 'S sb.. A. 1955 Erma Iones and Chiquita Standefer won annual debate assembly, Ianuary 12. SMS won Kansas State College Forensic Tournament. lanuary. Football coach William Dellastatious re- signed, Ianuary 28. Veteran's Association organized, Ianu- ary. SMS won Pittsburg, Kansas. Debate Tournament, February 5. Bears placed third in MIAA basketball conference. Winter. Alclo Sebben named Athletic Director, February 9. New library cornerstone laid. February ll. Parents' Day, February 22. Annual Standard-Ozarko Ball, April 7. Gayle Gough, Ozarko Queen. SMS debaters Erma Iones and Bill Maye nard returned from National Debate Tournament at West Point with out- standing individual honors, April 29. Death of a Salesman, Spring term play. Third Annual ROTC Military Ball. April 29. Ioyce Walker, Honorary Cadet Colonel. Bill Williams elected Student Body Pres- ident. Commencement Exercises, May 25. Summer term play was Penny Wise. Sixth annual SMS College Day. Indiana NEA director was featured speaker, Iuly 18. Reception honoring retiring Dean of Women, N. Bertha Wells, Iuly 21. Commencement Exercises for 159 seniors. August 2. Graduate program started at beginning of summer term. C0l.LIZCTl2D B 1 MEMBERS' OF THE STAFF IZDI TED B V G I? I? I l-l.ffI1f'.S' A ND DOROTHY C'R'l5'llf'l5I.L