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75 VEARS OF CHANGE Seventy-five years ago only grama grass, grey sage, and buckbrush met the dust- filled eyes of the trailer as he rode onto the slope behind the bellowing and tired herds of longhorns. Only five years before, the brave Sioux had counted their last coup at the Bighorn, but they too had vanished. Even the lordly beast of the plains, the bison, was in his dying hour, waiting but to leave his bleached bones to leach into the gumbos and the scorias. Only a thin ribbon of newly-laid steel, unrusted from the dews of that summer or the frosts of that winter broke the virgin landscape stretching horizon to horizon, untouched, untamed, .unmanned, unknown. Even then the country was changing. Changing! Changing! A short span of time is 75 years. The mere span of one man's life. Now we must relegate those memorable days and the staunch and stalwart men of that time to memory. These times are only a theme, but it will be a theme that springs into a hearty, surging life and not one that dies slowly and terrifyingly, like the last roll of the last Northern bison herd. The spirit will live on, making, changing, creating, succeeding, even fail- ing only to resucceed. The spirit that coursed in the veins of the gone Sioux warriors and the hardy trail riders (unaccepted as they both were) will reign as long as the word West itself continues to live. Without this spirit possessed by our forebears, this country would have remained as it was: untouched, untamed, unmanned, unloved. We of the Prairie Smoke Staff therefore select The Men of '81 as our theme in tribute to those without whose lives Signal Butte might have remained only a lair for badgers and rattlesnakes. We also do it as a tribute to all those who have followed the pioneers and who have yet to follow them in making this western spirit of determination and this common western heritage not only a memory but a way of life. —9—
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DEDICATION We respectfully dedicate this 1957 edition of the Prairie Smoke to Mr. John C. Thompson who as a teacher has been a never failing source of guidance, truth, and inspiration to all those with whom he has associated. For 13 years Mr. Thompson has been at D.S.T.C. working as a conscientious faculty member, an outstanding mathematics instructor and as a personal friend of his students. He has been active in many campus organizations, as an offical advisor or member. At the pre- sent time he’s Secretary-Treasurer of the College Foundation and chairman of the Alumni Relations Board. .The qualities of insight, optimism, patience, kindness, perseverance, dignity, and dedication are possessed by great teachers. We believe that Mr. Thompson has succeeded in attaining these quali- ties. The students of D.S.T.C. recognize these qualities as well as his leadership and tutorship. Many of his students have gone into the world from this institution and have been personally recognized for their accomplishments. We hope that by this dedication we can express some small measure of gratitude for having such a teacher as Mr. Thompson with us on our campus.
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