San Jose State College - La Torre Yearbook (San Jose, CA)

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There have been sTuolenT organizaTions since The earliesT days oT The college. Probably The TirsT organizaTion oT imporTance was The Allenian SocieTy, an acTive group unTil recenTly. All early socieTies were educaTional and culTural, buT as years passed They expanded To include social purposes. In l922, several oT The Temale socieTies Tormed an inTer-socieTy council, now Panhellenic, and in l935, The men Tollowed suiT wiTh an inTer-TraTerniTy council. All groups aT San Jose STaTe were local unTil l939, when Alpha Phi Omega, naTional service TraTerniTy, became The TirsT naTional Greek leTTer TraTerniTy, and in i947 The TirsT social TraTerniTy aTTiaTed naTionally wiTh Sigma Alpha Epsilon. By I948, nearly all social groups had aTFiliaTed wiTh The naTional groups. lndependenT organizaTions on This campus also have grown unTil There are more Than one hundred and ThirTy groups in all Tields oT college life. Possibly The independenT groups have noT received The publiciTy aTTorded The social groups because They have noT combined Torces To Torm a co-operaTive council, as The social groups have done. l-lowever, The independenT organizaTions represenT Tar more varied Tields oT inTeresTs. We have now venTured Through a small segmenT OT San Jose STaTe hisTory. The highlighTs oT one hundred years as seen Through expansion oT The college physical planT, iTs academic sTanding, sTudenT governmenT, publicaTions, and organizaTions. Each has played iTs parT in pioneering educaTional sTandards in our sTaTe and in helping our cenTennial herald a signiTicanT milesTone in CaliTornia educaTional developmenT. We look Torward To The TuTure. We pray ThaT Those oT The year 2057 will look back upon The second cenTury wiTh The same pride ThaT we review The TirsT. To paraphrase a speech once made in a high school radio play: The birTh of a College is noT an easy maTTer. IT is full of blood, sweaT and Tears. BuT if ThaT College is To survive iT musT have men oT greaT ideals-men who will see Through The conTlicTs of Today To The beTTer world oT Tomorrow. Morris Elmer Daily, Charles Allen and Thomas W. MacQuarrie were some of Those men, and The beTTer Tomorrow They visioned is whaT our greaT College is Today. Now we musT have men of greaT ideals. We musT see Through hysTeria, confusion and Tear, and plan and work Tor Tomorrow's sons and daughTers To say wiTh The same Tevor we declare Today-Long live SparTa!

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deparTmenT, The library, and The science deparTmenT. Under consTrucTion are a Three-sTory classroom building and an adminis- TraTion building. To be Tollowed by a caTeTeria, sTudenT acTiviTies building and possibly an arTs building. FuTure developmenr plans include exTension oT The campus To The easT and souTh. AlThough Too much emphasis cannoT be placed on The physical and academic growTh oT The college, no hisTorical slceTch would be compleTe or oT genuine sTudenT inTeresT unless iT Told oT The Tremendous expansion in The area oT sTudenT acTiviTies and sTudenT governmenT. One imporTanT phase oT sTudenT acTiviTy has been The develop- menT oT sTudenT publicaTions. The SparTan Daily and l.a Torre have rooTs in The old Normal PennanT. The school's TirsT real aTTempT aT esTablishing a publicaTion Tor periodic producTion. The PennanT was a monThly wiTh a special yearly ediTion, The predecessor To The presenT yearbook. ln IQIO, This monThly paper was replaced by a semi-monThly called The Normal Times, which concerned iTselT wiTh sTudenT aTTairs. This iournalisTic eTForT seT many SparTan Daily precedenTs. The paper's name was changed again To The College Times, Then To STaTe Teacher's College Times. Finally in I933, iT became The SparTan Daily. The Normal PennanT disconTinued publicaTion in l9IO and was Tollowed in IQI6 by La Torre. which is Spanish Tor The Tower. The name remains Today. The TeaTure magazine, l.yke, was inspired by a group oT l945 sTudenTs who TelT The need Tor such a campus publicaTion. ln I946. The TirsT issue oT Lycurgus appeared, and in December, I948, The name was shorTened To l.ylce. ln our hisTorical research on The sTudenT governmenT, we Tind Thar l-larrieT E. Q'uilTy became The TirsT presidenT oT The STudenT Body. STudenT governmenT never really goT going, however, unTil l909, when Loyd T. Bell became presidenT. AT ThaT Time, a new consTiTuTion was adopTed which gave sTudenTs conTrol oT Their own social acTiviTies. In I923, The name oT The governmenT was changed To AssociaTed STudenT Body. lTs income is derived Trom The sale oT sTudenT body cards and Trom a campus book sTore proceeds. The ASB has grown Tremendously. IT has esTablished a courT, many commiTTees. and class council, and iT has imainTained iuris- dicTion over sTudenT publicaTions and acTiviTies.

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Sfaff of fhe 1957 Cenfennial La Torre EDITOR . . . . RON KILPATRICK ASSOCIATE EDITOR . MARLENE BURGET BUSINESS MANAGER . . LARRY FORDYCE MANAGING EDITOR . . DANA LEVY BUSINESS STAFF Sales Manager ........ Don Lucchesi Assisfanf SaIes Manager . Chuck Arnazeen Assisfanf Business Manager . George Michaelson PubIiciIy Manager ........ Ed BaII PRODUCTION STAFF ArI EdiIors ...... Laura I-Iughes, Sally Roper Copy Edilrors . . Sylvia SIauIo, PaI Teague PhoIography Edilror . . . Dick I-Ienning SECTION EDITORS Sporis . ...... Andy Baumgardner Organizafions . Truloee Campbell, Rosanne Nicassio Residences . Paf FIeIcher, MariIyn Eafon Ac+iviIies . . Sandra EIdridge, JoyaI CoaIes AdminisJrraIion EIaine AnasIasiu, Beverly Takeda Gradua+ion . . Joyal CoaIes Exchange . Bealrrice I-Ioagland Index. . John I-Iood, John WiIson CenIenniaI . . Barbara I-IarIman STAFF MEMBERS I.ouAnne Bone . . . Joanne Bonesio Icover designI . . . Elsie CarIos Richard Donner . . . I-Ielen Flowers . . . Nancy Frahm . . . KaIhy I-Ianson GIen I-IensIrand . . . Irene Kayser . . . Don McPherson CaroI Maloyan . . .Vic Marquez . . . CaroI Nanny . . . Mae OgaIa Beverly Raban . . .Tom Rail . . . Wiley SchmidI . . . Carol Trice Kelly Wood . . . Dave Yossern