Texas Tech University - La Ventana Yearbook

“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 ”