Harding College - Petit Jean Yearbook (Searcy, AR)

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INTRBDUCING AT LAST it can be told. We admit that all year we,ve been a littlHWell, wonlt you be polite and let us just say uqueer ? You have to be odd to put out a yearbook. You must make demands that, by all normal student standards, are very unreasonable. You even expect people to keep appointments and promises, and meet dead- lines by Working when 'everyone else is having fun. If you think the faculty are hard to please, try to satisfy a printe'r. But above all you thought we had flipped our lid because so often you saw us-not both but one of us, Ann or Donesitting or walking about, clearly alone and yet talking like mad, arguing, laughing, explaining. No wonder you thought the strain had been too much for us. We donll blame you. How could you know that, appearances to the contrary- WE WERE NOT ALONEL' There was never a day, from registration last fall until the book went to press a few weeks ago, from the moment we yawned down to breakfast until so late at night that we threw her out to get some sleep or to study, hut what PEEJAY might be with us.

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t-is-or was-Peejay? We can tell you only what she believe it or not. Frankly, neither did We. Not at first, 'h m- our photographwnly slightly retouched by the art .7 l 4' xcltild, or at least a creature tune gamine is what she saidl . but terribly precocious. She speaks English with more -and it is typically saucy of her to point out that the many students. She claims to be the great-great-great- hgcndary Petit Jean, and that her home is a place called I far from Paris. tparis, Franee-not ArkansasJ She- tahe came all the way from there to Searcy as an airplane : of course, but Peejay only rolls her eyes and says it chute ?l; all because in 1945 an American soldat ut Harding, and she wanted to see llecole Americain yearbook for her so-great-aunt. Unlikely? Certainly. on what she said. Where Peejay stayed here, how she existed- if she didenone of these prac- tical details do we know. All we can tell you, in addition to the above, is that she had a way ofewell, lefs not say that she materialized but that she popped up and insisted on attention at the most impossible moments; of mak- ing comments on Harding people and Harding ways much too impertinent for us to repeat lyetl; of asking questions we couldn't answer, such as Monsieur le president-ds he coming or going? ; and that the only physical evidence now remaining sf her presence is a couple of reams of copy that she turned in for the yearbook. Anyone who wishes to see this may do so by coming to the PETIT JEAN office any day between two and four am. after the 15th of June. For our less skeptical readers, we have chosen a few of these effusions as introductions to the principal divisions of this book; and now and then a phrase or a slant or an idea of hers has crept elsewhere into the book. And welve tried hard to get her pictured to you. But these are at best very pale traces of the experience we've had with Peejay. And so is this book, compared to what wEd like to have made it for you. Eh him! as Peejay would say. 0F CON1ENTS ' Emlty, Work of the College . . . . Pages 11- 20 n, Sophomores, Juniors, Seniorst . . . . 21- 64 .. .41 Government, Honors, Dramatics, Music, fDepartmentaU . . . . 65- 80 ,. . 1 Night Classes, Student Preachers, . . . . . . . . . 81- 88 yand Favoritest . . . . . . . . . 88- 96 Orderl. . . . . . . . . . . 97-124 mean. . . . . . 125-136 Everything the College Hasl . . . 137 150 tDirectory Begins on Page 18D . 151 to the End 1 EMS