Hendrix College - Troubadour Yearbook (Conway, AR)

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Here’s what we You can get only so much into a yearbook. Any group of people who direct and work on the production of one are limited in what they can do with their annual. First, there’s the limitation of money. Within this bound- ary, there’s the extent to which the staff can plan and execute, and the amount of taste for excellence inside them — that last quantity goes in direct ratio with energy to knock your- self out for something. And then there’s that quite indefinable quality of the work done on caught... the annual in relation to the year — just how it pans out. What we aimed for in technicalities was the best job possible with what we had. We meant it; and that’s aiming pretty high. We repro- duced by photoengravings and letterpress be- cause that’s the best reproduction method, though the most expensive. We hoped our few luxuries were well-chosen; we chose them, throughout, with the idea of getting the most

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CO-EDLELORS: Betty HARTON Rospert R. Mount BUSINESS MANAGER: RicHarp M. Moose PHOTO-ENGRAVING: PEERLESS ENGRAVERS Little Rock, Arkansas PRINTING: THe Hurtey CoMPANy Camden, Arkansas PO Ra RwAtT lee PHO LOGRAPHY: SAM FAUSETT STUDIO Conway, Arkansas

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powerful and the most intelligent picture into the book. In the matter of copy we seriously aimed for the best writing of any Troubadour. We think the only way to achieve such an aim is the one we tried — being realistic wherever realism might be appreciated most. It’s very much, of course, a picture book. We didn’t stint too much on money (and certain- ly not on time and slaving) for good photo- graphs. But it’s a picture book with an ad- dition: our plan illustrated with brush and ink, our comment unifying the arrangement through another form. What we settled on trying to reproduce was not all of the year 1952 at Hendrix — that was impossible to us — nor was it reflecting all of Hendrix life, even though we made a stab at that. We have tried to combine art, report- ing, and some irrepressible subjectivity, and catch some things to remember... oo