Texas Tech University - La Ventana Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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EDITOR ' S LAMENT Start of school year Everything fine. Hardboiled editor Makes staff tow hne One month later All is joke. Staff is playin ' Drinkin ' coke. Pictures flowing Out the doors. Enter office On all fours. Gluepots, layouts, Piled on high. Ashes knee-deep — Time goes by! Deadline is set For March One. Investigate — No work done! Walk in workshop Almost choke. Can ' t see thru The cigarette smoke. Tell photographer, Take a snapshot! Get me something Really red-hot! Does he do it? Oh, you bet! Just how corny Can you get? A pic of Suzie And of Jane, Or a Centaur Minus brain. Pictures posed And out of focus, Give ye editor Chinese Mokus. Got a snapshot — Paste it in. Twelve pages later. Damn thing again. Billy Jones Has picture took Wants it proper In the book. Look in directory Who ' s to blame? Fifty students Have same name. Put him Socii He is Key ' Howl of outrage — Editor flee! Or the fellow Now and then — The names he uses Number ten! Registrar Has him Sammy, But he ' s Junior To his mammy. Otto ' to some To others Pinky, ' Yet his close friends Call him Stinkie. Which one is it? What ' s his name? He never signs it Quite the same. Sam O. Botts Is official — But for the book rU use initial! Twenty people Drop in office. The result is Twenty bosses. Sneer at pictures Tear out pages. Laugh at layouts — Editor rages! Whiskey, opium, Marijuana, dope! All are taken to Keep up hope. Annual comes out — Its your baby. Will they like it? Well! just maybe. Will they see The pain it takes. The time and trouble? NO! Just mistakes. -B. Williams EDITORS NOTE-This poem was taken from the 1949 La Ventana. It was composed by Bob Williams, the 1949 La Ventana editor-in-chief. f • 1 II Ml Si llti nil Now as the year has come to a close and I turn in the last page of the 1979 La Ventana, I leave a piece of my heart with the book. No words could begin to tell what effort was put into the book by each editor and I would like to thank each one of them. I also give a special thanks to Pat McGee for all her help and support. A very warm and special thank you goes to a lady whom I have grown very fond of and who could never be replaced, Jean Finley. I would like to thank Richard Lytle for his hours of help, and Kay Perkins, Barbara Boat- wright and Pam Knerr for indexing and proofing pages. Darrel Thomas deserves much more than a thank you for the long nights he spent printing color for the opening section and thanks goes to Richard Halim for his extra work. This book was created for you, en- joy it. Liz Edwin It has been a long hard year with many ups and downs. Without all of the sleepless nights and guidance of Richard Lytle, Jean Finley and Darrel Thomas, the book undoubtedly would still be sitting on the drawing board. Special thanks to Pat for helping us all get our work together. Pat, you were really a strength when we needed it. The staff did a good job, and of course there were outstanding mem- bers, as always. The staff at the American yearbook plant has been especially patient and kind about our problems. Also, the support given by mem- bers of the University Daily staff and the Student Publications staff has been phenomenal! The most special thanks goes to Liz, who held the book together at the end. The appreciation I feel can not be put into words easily but it is there. I hope you enjoy the book. Bev

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LA VENTANA 1979

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La Ventana co-editors Elizabeth Edwin Beverly Jones Assistant to the editors Pat McGee Director of Student Publications Richard Lytle Business Manager Jean Finley Director of Photography Darrel Thomas Photographers Richard Halim Todd Marshall Mike Means Art Editor Ricky Sales x iT 9- % n r LA VENTANA LA VENTANA Opening and closing the year, La Ventana takes an overall view of entertainment and activities of Tech students. SPORT Ronny Hutchinson provides an informative presentation of men ' s and women ' s sports. VOGUE Grace Jacobus introduces a new look at Tech coeds ' organizations, sororities and residence halls. PLAYBOY Camille La Foy and Tina Driessner devote more coverage to fraternities, residence halls and organizations involving Tech students. TEXAS BUSINESS Sheree Milliard focuses attention on mass communications, administration and military aspects of campus life. ESQUIRE Lisa Lee takes a look into the world of music and various honorary organizations. FUTURE 51 117 187 181 331 373 Melody Donges explores the future through the engineering, business administration, medical and graduate schools, and also takes a look at the Crosbyton Project. INDOORS OUTDOORS Lisa Boardman compares the stereotyped home economics major to the home economics major of today and gives a report on the agricultural societies at Tech. 411 The La Ventana would like to give special thanks to all who helped put the book together. A special thank you to each maga- zine that gave La Ventana permission to use its logo: Sport, Vogue, Playboy, Texas Business and Esquire. The La Ventana would also like to thank the Lubbock merchants for al- lowing us to use their stores and buildings for pictures and supplying many of the props necessary for the theme of each magazine.