Florida State University - Renegade / Tally Ho Yearbook (Tallahassee, FL)

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NEW NAMES (or a new school and a new annual The new name glistening upon the college gates was by no means the only different moniker on cam- pus. New names were everywhere. Bill, Bob, and Tom were as frequent on class rolls as Mary, Betty, and Sue. And even some of the girls were lucky enough to change their names. The faculty boasted many new names too. There were new names for organiza- tions and publications. Students gave up crossword puzzles for the intriguing game of you name it, FSU style. As the new look in names campaign got underway, it became obvious that a worthy project was to change the name of the annual, Flastacowo, which, for the benefit of any aliens, was the abbreviation for Florida State College for Women without the conventional use of punctuation. The first volume of Flastacowo was printed in 1910. In this edition the seniors numbering an Even dozen were complimented by a caricature and poem in addi- tion to their formal photograph. In the senior class poem this sage advice was offered: Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Junior batch- Count not, I say, fair ones, count not Thy chick before ' tis hatched. Other extensive literary accounts were inserted throughout the book including one whimsical version of a faculty meeting. There were pictures of every organization on cam- pus including the Loafer ' s Club, The Midnight Feast- ers, The Bandanna Tormentors and The Mary (Merry) Club composed of all the girls named Mary on cam- pus. Their motto was Drink and be Mary, aim, To be Mary and the club flower was the Mary-gold. Group shots of the biology classes proudly display- ing their woodland specimens of ferns and grass- hoppers enlivened the pages. The Flastacowo ' s predecessor of the FSC era was called The Argo. Less extensive in its scope, the pub- lication had a quaint habit of labeling class photo- graphs a group of students. An interesting aspect of the organizations section was a group called the Twosing Club, composed of all the steadies on campus. Other definite evidences of coeducation of that period were given in the sports department. Foot- ball, baseball, basketball, tennis and golf were the outstanding activities. With this sturdy background FSU ' s new annual joined the chase with the resounding cry of TALLY- HO!

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OLD SCHOOL THE NEW.... ming— someone should have told them the automobile had been invented! A candidate for admission to FSCW had to present a record for good moral character as well as a scholas- tic record. In 1914 the Romance Club and the Home Eco- nomics Club were organized. Although seemingly related the Romance Club had as its members French and Spanish students. In 1915 the Flambeau broke into print! It was then the custom to place the students ' mail in a wire basket at one end of the tiny post office. One girl would stand on a chair and call out the names. This system was uniquely labeled mail call. Physical education consisted mostly of exercises with Indian clubs and dumb-bells. There were four F Club members. The favorite recreation of student government was campusing. One girl was called before Student Gov- ernment for cutting breakfast three times and another was campused for wearing a skirt with a split up the side. During World War I students contributed every moment outside of class time to war work. Miss Harris, head of the home economics department, supervised the students in canning, pickling and dry- ing the college garden products. Despite the shortage of tin cans the group was given a car load of the scarce items by the government to carry on their project. When the cans arrived, they were unloaded in a leaky old warehouse near the station. Unfor- tunately this warehouse was in the city limits of Tallahassee and, of course, it rained that night. In order to save the cans a group of volunteers armed with a mammoth supply of towels attempted to wipe out the trouble. By the following evening the can- can girls were thoroughly dried out. But the cans were saved along with the day which proves again the point: Never underestimate the power of an FSC woman. The period between the first and second world wars was characterized by building and expansion. Enrollment increased annually and in 1941 FSCW was the third largest women ' s college in the United States and ranking high scholastically as well. School spirit, augmented by the Odd-Even rivalry, reached its peak every Thanksgiving when home- coming, color rush, demonstrations and sports reigned supreme. During World War II the students gave many hours of work to Red Cross projects and USO duty. With the end of the war FSCW students welcomed the return of veterans to their brother university at Gainesville. The numbers of returning students reached an amazing proportion but the Tally lassies failed to see the disadvantage in this. However when it was deemed necessary to install a branch of the University of Florida at Tallahassee, the girls were quick to agree that the crowded situation should by all means be alleviated. So after forty years FSCW ' s Sleeping Beauties were awakened by the handsome princes, and Experiment: Coeducation got underway. Dale Mabry, a former army field, was converted by a few quick strokes of the paint brush into TBUF. Perhaps because of its noted ancestry, coeducation seemed to like FSCW as well as the rain. Keen-sighted legislators soon realized the modern- ized aspects of this system and in May 1947, Florida joined the ranks of progressive states. FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY-a new name and the beginning of a new history in educational development.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS ADMINISTRATION 23 Government 28 Faculty 38 Senior Class 52 Junior Class 89 Sophomore Class 104 Freshmen Class 125 ORGANIZATIONS 153 Publications 156 Sororities 162 Fraternities 191 Honoraries 208 Organizations 218 ACTIVITIES 243 Wheels 246 Antics and Panics 282 ATHLETICS 321 Men ' s Sports 323 Women ' s Sports 345 Intramurals 358 ADVERTISEMENTS 360