McMurry University - Totem Yearbook (Abilene, TX)

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 Administration w. b. McDaniel Dean of the College ★ ★ GORDON BENNETT Executive Vice-President, Director of Public Relations ★ ★ JENNIE TATE Dean of Women

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The President's Message to the Students: A four-year college course is either the most significant or the most meaningless period of one's life. To the student who relates what he is doing with what he pur- poses to be in ten or twenty or thirty years, college life becomes his most fruitful ex- perience. To the one who is living but for the day or the year or the degree, who has no ultimate objective or final goal, the time spent in college becomes a period of confusion and waste. That which differentiates man from the rest of the animal world is his ability to see beyond the immediate, to look into the future, to fix goals, to formulate purposes, to set up objectives for the years that lie ahead The Master of life urged his fol- lowers it ’Lift up your eyes and look!” Fix your eyes on the horizon and beyond! Paint a picture for yourself of what you want to accomplish and to be in a quarter or half century, and set about its realization with all your mind and soul. There is no wonder that many college students become dissatisfied and discouraged — that again and again they ask themselves What’s the use? A four-year period in college in itself is of little or no value. If that is all there is to it. the time might better be spent working at some job that will contribute a mite to the family budget, or in some more pleasant pastime. What a dull and senseless thing a college course must be to one who sees no ultimate purpose or value in it! Mathematics, science, literature, language, and history become futility and folly to the fool. For th?se studies to be interesting and meaningful, they must be related to the ultimate goal. The most important thing a college student ever does is to drive down a stake on the horizon. To fix a purpose, set a goal, dream a dream, catch a vision—and to live with it. sleep with it. drive toward it, and dedi- cate oneself to it will make college life rich and meaningful and glorious! Otherwise it is a waste of time! DR. HAROLD G. COOKE. President.

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ADMINISTRATION ND FACULTY GARNET GRACY WILLIAM I ADAMS LLOYD BLANKS Buxinext Manager Speech Art JEROME VANNOY FRANCES BENGE OLIVER A. BUSH Registrar Spanish Veterans Housing Administrator and Director of Student Center RAYMOND T. BYNUM WILLIE MAE CHRISTOPHER JIM ELLA FISK Band English Hostess President Hall ARVALEE CHAPPELL LARRY CUNNINGHAM MARTA VE FOX Secretary to President Physical Education Biology PHIL H GATES MARGARET GODBEY MARY ELLEN HAYES Gold Stat Dormitory Director Physical Education Organ and Plano BERTHA GATES EDITH GRIMES J VERNON HILLIARD Gold Star Dormitory Hostess Speech Director of Athletics ROSITA H HOLLAR LLOYD D. HUFF W. NORTON JONES. JR. Librarian English Chemistry WILLIAM W HOLMES. !R. ANDREW W. HUNT MEL JOWELL lournahsm and Director of Education Mathematics and Publicity Physical Education