Memphis State University - DeSoto Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

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■ % -n . 7V , f - M ' : — « 6 . r ' Images. Beyond the statue of Elvis and the Libertyland gate, these images of Memphis meet the knowing eye of a Memphis State student and remind him of how it is and was to be part of this experience at this time and place. Reflections, both real and surreal. Sometimes the cinemascopic panorama of a scene stretched bigger- than-life across the eye ' s curved surface, bending reality in ways it may never be shaped again. At this time and place an acceptabled phenomenon made more palatable because the time and place is right for suspending the concrete and allowing the mind to stretch as well, even if the perspective we brought here is altered in the process. This dreamlike lapse is neither a negation of our perspective nor a random search for something to replace it. The lapse is merely an altered and temporary state, permissible for this moment when it may never be permissible again or before. It is a time for expanding horizons and imagining what realities lie beyond that which can be easily grasped. And yet it is a time for reality as well. We seek not fantasy but knowledge; not escape but involvement; not error but truth. Our eyes are open to the fact that we are of this world. The goal is self- fulfillment but with a wider purpose. Inconsistencies. The contrasts of time and motion, beauty and the commonplace, age and eternity, vocation and avocation. ..all juxtaposed in a kaleidoscope of color or in patterns of shapes and sizes seemingly designed to confuse, only present choices. Perhaps it ' s the decisions we must now make that will take us away, one way or the other. Selections can no longer be made for us. They are ours to make. Opening 3

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AvjX te Opening 2 Student Life 8 Academics 74 Sports 126 People 168 Organizations 248 Greeks 272 Index 324 Closing 332 • 2 Opening

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: : ,: ' We gaze and are astounded. We are seeing perhaps for the first time, standing on an uncertain ground, on a cold and foreign soil, at patterns spreading out before us in all directions. And only now do we realize the scope of the choices that are there. We had not dreamed them before; had not realized their expanse, their immensity. Impressionable, impatient, yet nearly immobile, we pause here to consider — because pausing as well is the purpose of this place. Like a circle, a perfect orb with neither beginning nor end, this is the time that makes us whole if we will allow it to work it ' s complete power. Looking back at some future time, perhaps through the mist of a fond memory of person, place or just what may seem later as brief contentment, we will find more than meets today ' s eyes. Beyond the statue of Elvis and the red-and-white awning at Friday ' s, these are the images which will shape the picture of our lives as we grow — BETTER THAN EVER. 4 Opening