University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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OCTOBER 1941 their staffs. There isn't any doubt of it-it is more difficult, for several reasons. The agony of getting something into print reaches its height and depth when you put it together, or go to press. Whereas a yearbook has this ordeal once, the fayhazwker staff struggles through it five times, at intervals of six or seven weeks. While the individual issue is smaller, the form and material are more difficult to work with, and the pressure of time is far greater. Furthermore, Iazylamuker materials, styles, layouts are far more varied than in year books. More of the material is original, unpatterned. It has to be-or, at any rate, it is-better-than-average fitted, though with less time for the trimming and stretching and basting. Each issue has to be balanced for types of content. A much larger group of people participate, in various ways, in the creation of the Irzyhazwker- and if you think that makes it easier, you just don't know about student publications. . Those are less than half of the reasons why the Ipzybrzfwkefr form is difficult. For instance, it doesn't begin to touch on the business manager's added prob- lems as to selling advertising for five issues, and get- ting copy and cuts, and collecting, or distributing five issues to subscribers, plus binders, or the shorter schedule for picture-taking, or the high pressure clicking at the engravers and printers. But they ought to be enough to back up the asser- tion that the jaylmwker exacts from its staff much more than the usual yearbook or magazine, in time and devotion and skill and straight thinking and alertness and just plain dogged endurance. There have been eight jazylamuker staffs in a row-and I am confident that there is now a ninth-who had those 15 qualities, who had what it takes to makethe jay- lmwker. If that isn't a tribute to the greatness of the Uni- versity which produced them Cand incidentally to the shrewdness of the Board which chose theml, what do you want? The Rose Bowl? Yes, I suppose you do. But I'd rather have the fzzybrzwker. Year in and year out, it's a greater achievement. This isn't the article that Jim Surface asked me to write. He wanted me to set down some of the in- cidents, dramatic or funny or tragi-comic and all human, that I knew in fifteen years of working with Iaylorzwkerx. But too many of those incidents are too personal to put into print, or have flavor only to those who know the Irzylmwker from the viewpoint of the kitchens where it is cooked. However, no tribute to the Iayhpzwker of today can be given without thought of the editor and busi- ness manager who introduced its magazine format to a dazed but definitely and pleasantly intrigued Mount Oread. They were the bold test pilots who took the radical experiment off the ground, up to the strato- spher, and safely back to land again. So skillfully and courageously did they do their work that, while each new model has shown improvement, there has not yet CKing's Xlb been a crack-up. Every Izzy- hrzwker staff owes them the same debt that any trans- port or military pilot will tell you he owes to the test pilots who first flew his ship. Quentin Brown was the editor. Today he is an attorney and the executive secretary of the State High- way Commission, known and respected in political circles throughout the state, unusually young for such a position and reputation. In those days, he was such a power in Hill politics as few campuses ever see. KCo11ziazue.d on Page 671 type! of editory I have known . . . zzznfhor 1 f -S JDQN Ii 'rzcin S

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L l ,QAL i I f W L, A 2 1-I T1-113 JAYI-IAXVKER Bowl, Containing ldoses 7he fauhauihea aah a inhale faarn one who hnauca M ucell by R, R. 'Maplesden HIS fayhawleer of yours is unique. Among all the thousands of college publications, there is no other just like it, none which covers the same field, or in the same manner. The fayhafwher is a substantial part of that larger unique-ness which is K.U. Here it is still only mid-fall, much too early to be working up an appetite for Thanksgiving, and with the make-or-break part 'of the football season just coming up. Yet already you've been reading in your fayhawher about the earlier games, about rush week and registration and the first moves of the politicos and all that early hurly-burly, that does so much to set the pace of the university year. You have pictures, interpretation, and comment- a record which is yours Tor- life. Yet it has been put into your hands while the events still echo and the personalities are which, he thought for a moment about OctobCr lst, would be sheerly, starkly, simply impossible. So' this magazine-yearbook isn't a novelty any more, but an established institution already well be- yond the average age of periodicals. Then why, if it has such advantages over conventional yearbooks Cand its timeliness is only one of manyb why hasn't its form been generally adopted elsewhere? Well, for one thing, K.U. did it hrst, so . . . period. You didn't know that universities and col- leges were like that? Oh, but my dear! But yes! CAnd K.U. can be like that, too.D This particular inhibition should wear off some time during the next decade. And for another thing, a few did try it. In fact, in a sense, two or three of these survive, or did last year, but they are not really of the genus, because still freshly vivid and interesting. And this will happen four more times through the year. That isn'r true at Manhattan, or Columbia, or Norman or Lincoln or Ames. lt isn't true on any other campus in America. The students at other universities and colleges must wait until next May to get their year- books, when most of the events of fall and winter will have an em- balmed look. The hot wind of finals will be blowing. So, after a hasty glance through, the books will be laid aside for future attention which, to a large extent, they'll never get. This is the ninth autumn in which K.U. students have riiiied the leaves of their jayhaioher while there are still some leaves on Mount Oreadls trees. Jim Surface is the ninth editor of the fayhawher in its magazine form, and he is looking at his first issue with considerably more amaze- ment than his readers, as a miracle - AJ manager of the college ile- parlment of ihe Burger-Bairrl Engraving' Co., Mr. Maplenlerz helped wilh the planning and proiluction of the jayhawker from 1926 through to the spring of 1941,' ar well ax many other col- lege puhlicationx in the Middle lVe.rt. He har recently gone into another line of work. For ihe part lhree yearx, he har been criiic of college annualr for the National Scholartic Prem Arrociation. He contribute! regularly to the Scho- larlic Eiiilorf and thir year rlirectr the program of the yearhooh .rec- tion of the convention of the Armciaieil Collegiate Prem. . T they appear only twice a year, which is merely a semi-annual and not a mag- azine-yearbook. As for the rest, hav- ing tried it for a year or at most two, they hastily returned to their conven- tional yearbooks. Again, why? Well, partly because they failed to discern the true in- wardness of the Jayhawheriv form, the subtle core of its philosophy as a college record. They missed either on the side of being too magazine-ish, so that the resulting publication did not give the impression of being a valuable, permanent recordg or on the other side, sticking to yearbook for- mat and spirit so slavishly that the results looked merely like the old annual, divided into several sections. But above all, they returned to the conventional book because they found the magazine yearbook a la Iayhawher much more diflicult for their staffs. Too diiiicult, they felt. And perhaps they were right-for

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l r l r 5 16 THE JAYHAWKER . Illlllllllllllll , OU meet Percival, and Butch, and Joe . . . and if you are conscientious, you meet many in-betweens. Percy makes good grades and can that kid play the zither . . . wow! Butch has a few rough edges to be taken off, he Hghts at the drop of a hat Cusually his ownj , eats with his fingers, and swears rather loudly . . . but deep down in his heart he is a good boy. joe, well you know Joe, he's got the slickest pair of purple and green striped, knee high pants, and he knows all the women, he's the guy who convinced M.G.M. what colletch is really like. What is it? Why it's rush week . . . the one thou- sand nine hundred and forty-first since the birth of Christ. If you are a sophomore, no one is good enough to live with you. Rushees either have too much hayseed or oil in -their hair to suit you. If you are a junior, you begin to relent and really look for worthwhile things in a pros- pective brother, but if you are a senior, you have long ago given up on your own judgment of men and you decide that any one who can pay his house bill is plenty good enough for your white-one. A shot in the arm . . . that's what it is . . . new blood to take the place of the 'spring departing seniors. Rush week is good antidote for double chins, cokosis Cknown to medical men as weakening of the eye brow muscles due to lack of enough pauses to refreshb, and the dread evil, fresh air, which is most prevalent when the college man has to go to class and give up and hour of tobacco time. This pleasant three-day idyl is also an intellectual stimu- lant. Never does the rushing fail to strike up an inspir- ing conversation with the rushed. Sometimes they have even surpassed the plane in which the rushing has told everything Cthat is everything goodb about himself and reached up into the realm of discourse on the weather. Even good things must come to an end, however. And the three days of bliss . . . for ignorance' is bliss,'and what is more blissed than rush week . . . abruptly ends with the ominous burp of the University whistle. Pledges are no longer guests . . . they are now freshmen, and the manner in which some actives ennunciate the word freshman, might make on think that the yearling is a llll llllllll ACACIA FIRST ROW: Bill Furner, Lawrence' James Bond, Midwest, Wyo.' Don Cole, Law- rence. SECOND ROW: Wayne Russ, Burdett, Steven Wilcox Trousclale, Ural Horton, Midwest, Wyo. THIRIQ ROW: Harold Craig, Raton, N. M., lvan Jousserand, Johnson, Norman Dlssln, Washington, D. C. NOT IN PICTURE: Carroll Smith, Lawrence, Elton Pugh, Overbrook. 1 ALPHA TAU OMEGA FIRST ROW: Jack Walker, St. J 11, M 3 K t P' ' ' - ' Kansas Qlty, Alex ljlaas, lndepenggfiie, Jghl-r X2Re3rhKdhrs?1ke'Clllll?hRljd 'Felggril mid' Kansas City, Mo.' Bull Pernie, Kansas Cnty, Bob Feese Ft. Leavenvrfortl1 'Harold Beck' lala. secouo ROW, Bill Patkwoad, Kansas City, Mof- John Nabb Karlsas cny Moi Gene Branson, Wlchlto, John Bradley, Kansas City, Mo., Mark McClain Sun'Ci1y'l ,Yell EELSVE-22ksgrcwfilegirggigrxgefe-Max Webster, Hutchinson, George Robb, Kansas City,