Northeastern State University - Tsa La Gi Yearbook (Tahlequah, OK)

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TRADTTTGN U.P'D'A'T'E Phulus by Maria Mourr' Homecoming still highlight of year After four years of college one might consider it home. Home- coming is a highlight every year as graduates come back boasting of where their education has taken them, also encouraging the present students to reach even higher. The festive celebration has de- veloped from a one day event to a week-long,y showdown. The queen's title also has changed: whereas she used to be elected by popular vote of- the football team. she is now elected by a campuswide vote. Being crowned queen still holds the honor it originally did of being the prettiest girl on campus. CROWDS PACK THE STAND to cheer the Rudmcn during one of the wettest seasons UVC l' , Ballenger remembers schoolls beginning days Older than Seminary Hall hes a tradition himself Dr. T.L. Ballenger is older than Seminary Hall and M the university itself, but he is still an active part of 0M Northeastern State University and Tahlequah. Ballenger came to NSU in 1914 as a history Qr M professor, five years after state creation of Northeastern State Normal School. previously the Cherokee Female Seminary. He taught at Northeastern for 35 years before retiring in 1951. Being an NSU tradition himself, Ballenger remembers the ultimate college tradition of homecoming as the single biggest clay at Northeastern. According to Ballenger, the celebration was a combination Ofcollege homecoming and the Cherokee annual meeting. They would have a picnic south of Seminary Hall at the foot of the campus by the big spring. It was a social gathering. A lot of Northeastern people would return at this time, he commented. The picnic dinners would be complete with fried chicken and all the trimmings. The day of festivities included a street parade followed with a meeting of former students at an old drugstore in downtown Tahlequah. A group would hang around for a while and later go to the college for a noon lunch. Then they would go to the football game in the afternoon, Ballenger remembered. Celebrating his 102th birthday in December, Ballenger still attends the Redmen football games, is an active participant in Kaleidoscope Week and occasionally visits the NSU library. In his spare time, Ballenger is busy writing. When 1 think of something that hasn't been written and know about it, 1 write it. he commented. He has written about 15 articles for The Chronicles of Oklahoma and is also an honorary life member of the Oklahoma Historical Society. II, V t5 10 Mini mag

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' 9n $ Who 04;!!th Jami Admission process develops into complicated ordeal Each year junior and senior year high school students file into designated testing areas to submit themselves to the pressure of the American College Testing,7 Program 1ACT1. The results from this test All Of these forms must be completed or submitted by their respective parties. Health forms can only he completed by a licensed physician. not by the aspiring; octor'friend of an older brother. The official copy of the high school transcript must be sent directly from the hands of the high school registrar to the admissions office. Hand carried Copies can not he accepted; especially those hearing traces of liquid paper. Whiie trying to fulfill these admission requirements it is definite that some freshman will cry. What happened to the good oid days of the Normal school? In 1909 anyone of good moral character, who has finished the eighth grade was allowed admission into the Northeastern State Normal School. There were no four hour ACT tests to be taken or no twelve year and a diploma from an accredited high school diplomas to be earned high school are the first steps in before acceptance into the school applying for admission to NSU. could be granted. Prospective NSU students are Despite the yearning for the faced with securing that the Office simplicity of the good old days, the of Admissions and Records ease of admission into colleges receives their ACT scores, health vanished with the horse drawn form and high school transcript. carriage. , , 5 gt. 1 i Pheiffer knows what it takes ,a-mf ' ' 1n the fall of 1979, NSU began the twwyeat program ofoptometry and entered its first class of - . M 24 students. Dr. Chester H. Pheiffer, formerly p .2 , ' dean of the College ofOptometry at the University . 9. M of Houston. took the reins of the Division of Optometry in the College of Arts and Sciences as chairman. In juiy 1980, the Oklahoma State for Higher Education ' approved a full fourryear professional optometry program 3 g A including college status and awarding of the OD. degree. As founding dean, Dr. Pheiffer was featured in the journal of .1 u. 3 , ,- - American Optometric Association: Dean Pheiffer brought 3 i ' i '1 together a young and dedicated faculty and administrative staff. . . a group of men and women committed to the primary objective ofthe r x ' college . . . producing doctors of optometry who deliver quality ? -' ' i vision care and who are concerned for the welfare of their patients. 1 He sought faculty who were interested and enthusiastic about t l, 7 '1 teaching and in the production of new knowledge. He looked for ' competence in specialty areas and for those who were able and 4,. :5 , willing to understand and appreciate the differing concepts and 1- i approaches of other faculty. 1 A formal occasion for naming the Optometry Clinic at W.W. , Hastings Hospital the Chester H. Pheiffer Optometry Clinic was held November 26. 1984. in appreciation for the dedication and service Pheiffer has provided the Northeastern State University 3 College of Optometry. uh Mini mag 9

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STEVE VEDDER. 0F Muskugee pmvides the leadership needed fur the Redmen husehzill teunm Changes not all bad Dmp waist dresses may be back in style from the 30's but some things have definitely changed! Hair styles are probably the most noticeable. The ladies in the early 20's devastated their reputation with bobbin g oi'the hair but the short cuts are taking a new meaning as women enter the career world. Men who kept hair off the collar with little variation now h uve lengthenv ed the cut with a great variety E ixg; Eh t ?INSUBA'333 e4 41. .- maemr. ?Egr it of styles. Our taste in entertainment also has changed from Alexander's Rug time Band in 1938 to Gimstbusterx in 1984. Transportation develop ments caused much of the change. From horseback and foot to automobiles and planes, speed isofessence now in every area. The mail that used to take weeks t0 months now cu n go from coast to coast nvetnight. Chalk that one up! Mini mag 11