Hardin Simmons University - Bronco Yearbook (Abilene, TX)

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Fottwo vt 0 + THIS IS YOUR 1951 BRONCO Your first action will most probably be that of finding your picture — then your friends’. After that, you will skim though the sections that particularly interest you. Then you will give the entire book some scanned attention. Then what? .... Will it find a place on the shelves with your finished textbooks—never to be looked at again? Will it be discarded entirely? Or, will you be one of those few persons who considers his an- nual a distinct part of his college career and a medium through which he can recall the people, good times, and work connected with it? We sincerely hope you will be one of the latter. . . . Quite frankly, this BRONCO is not just what we had hoped to publish .... but, we are not apologizing because it isn’t. With all the money that could be reasonably spent, the facilities, and time available, that little dream would have been an impossibiliy. We too, would have liked to have had colored pictures, extensive coverage of all the spring activities, and something of special interest to each individual student. But, with deadlines early in the semester, that, too, would have been impossible .... This is your BRONCO. We want it to represent, even if only in a sketchy manner, your 1950-1951 year in Hardin- Simmons University. We want it to typify the people and organizations and life of this University. We want it to represent you .... And so, with your permission, may we present ----The 1951 BRONCO----

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Once again we greet the students of Hardin-Simmons through the pages of the Bronco. The Bronco is the oldest publication of this Univer- sity that has been published continuously. Since the first issue in 1908, only one number, that for the war year 1918, Tt recorded college life in the early nineteen hundreds, when the boys strutted about in peg-top trousers and the pi-rls wore collars that sawed their chins. It told of Sim- mons during the garish twenties, the age of tree-sittings, and yo-yoing, and Every day in every way I am getting better and better. It pictured the lean thirties; the exciting days after Pearl ©arbor; and the years of great growth. Now, as we prepare to dedicate our year book, men are leaving again for the armed forces. This Bronco belongs to the students of this generation. Let us keep it as a memento of golden college years and a token of the enduring spirit of Hardin-Simmons University.