Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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direction Just as a play or production must have a director, so must the extravaganza we call college life. Students find that in learning the basics of direction, they learn while helping others. It is said that 50 per cent of leading is learning to follow, and that’s why the good leader prepares himself enough in one field to lead and adequately in others to follow. Contributing to a group does not mean formulating all the ideas, rather it is a give and take of all the suggestions and the combining of them into one basic plan. When college life begins, Fall term, the director takes his seat and the cameras start rolling. It is then that the technicians, the prop men, the wardrobe girls, and the cast begin work. TTie director, with his script, regulates the activity but it is the cast and the technical side who determine the show’s run by their performance. Everyone learns to be a leader in his own right, just as everyone must learn to follow at times. No one is bom to direct, but directors before him will ward off the old pitfalls. The young director must find the new dangers for himself. Ever)’ day is a new act in the show, with the dawn breaking, as the rising curtain, and the sun floodlighting the stage. Toward evening the spotlight falls on one event and with midnight the curtain falls, giving the actors a chance to change costumes, in preparation for the next rise of the curtain. Oregon State has had a successful run, and from all appearances it looks as though we’ll have a full house for many years to come. The cast may change, and the directors may find new blood, but the show is still basically the same and the audience seems to enjoy it. 7

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representation Better than a publicity pamphlet ora million dollars worth of television commercials, Oregon State’s students speak for the college both on and off the campus. It is our athletic teams, our music groups, our drama students, and even the student in a singular capacity who show the public what our school is like. More important than winning the game is the town's opinion of us, and it is our athletes who demonstrate to the nation’s population what Oregon State stands for. When the band goes off campus to perform, listeners arc aware of more than the notes played; they are watching the musicians to see what the rest of the student body of this ‘foreign college’ is like. Public relations depend on much more than a