Jacksonville State University - Mimosa Yearbook (Jacksonville, AL)

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TIME IS MORE THAN NUMBERS ON A CLOCK . . . IT IS THE ESSENCE OF LIFE . . . YESTERDAY . . . TODAY . . . TOMORROW . . . We hear a clock strike; we see numbers on a dial; we tear pages from a calendar and we call it time. This is time. But alas, they are only devices—superficial devices of man to help comprehend time. We use words: years, era, season, century, and we think we know time. But time is more; it is the changing cycle of nature, the ever returning spring, dotting the hills with white dogwood, pink honeysuckle, and mountain laurel, trimming the trees with chartreuse and gold, filling the early breezes with the fragrance of crabapple and violets,

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Contents Editor Karen Hinch Associate Editor Kristy Smith Assistant Editor Bill Braddock Copy Editor Cathy Smith University Photographer Opal R Lovett Photographers Jimmy Smothers Janet Anthony Scot Johnson Growing thru life theme 1 Developing memories events 40 Developing character personalities .. 62 Devloping body sports .. 88 Developing teamwork organizations ... 140 Developing minds faculty .. . 222 Developing friends classes .. 266 Entering maturity closing .. . 346 Claiming credits specs ... 352 Listing friends index .. 353 Jacksonville State University Mimosa 1978 Vol. 33

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caressing the earth with gentle showers . . . awakening it from its long slumber . . . Time is the gentleness of spring slowly changing to the bold, bright days of summer. . . colorful days with hollyhocks, snapdragons, daylilies, and sunflowers blooming abundantly; days rich with the sights and sounds of bees, butterflies, and crickets . . . Time is summer maturing into fall . . . ripening fruit, yielding fields, leaves turning; burgundy, yellow, orange, bronze, blending with marigolds, chrysanthemums, and goldenrods, creating a potpourri of colors that warms the chill of the crisp autumn air. . J time . . . more than numbers on a clock . . . 3