Oklahoma State University - Redskin Yearbook (Stillwater, OK)

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DITUHIA QANUTL It is just another radical change the staff has made. VVeigh it carefully Zlllll judge it accordingly. The book has been divided into sec- tions by schools. This is not Z1 new idea, bllf a sound one. All organizations and CllIbS that are connected with any one school on the campus have been placed in that school's section of the an- llllill. The class sections and features pertaining to Agriculture are l:OllIltl in the Agriculture section, 211111 the same applies to the other schools. You will find the outstanding students of the college as a whole in one big sec- tion of their own, and you will find out- standing people in each of the schools. It is part of the new theme used to tie the book together. It serves i11 place of the expensive art themes of the past along with the l1llll101'0LIS drawings lllltl divided view section. This is not an ac- cident. It has all been carefully planned by the staff. Another new feature found in the an- nual this year is the pictures and infor- mation regarding department heads of the various schools. These pictures form a vital part of remembrances. An effort has been made to secure in- formal pictures whenever possible. They cost slightly more money than do posed pictures, bllt who would 11ot rather have an informal picture of one he knows? These pictures are intended to give you a look at your friends and professors as yo11 know them here on the campus Zllltl not as they may be made to appear by expert photography. Your book this year is several pages larger than any REDSKIN has been for the past three years. lfditor joe G1'iffi11's 1931 REDSKIN was the biggest Rizoskix in history. Griffiii made many honest ef- forts to improve his book. He was one of the few editors who were able to car- ry on in the face of long odds, b11t he had almost three times as many thou- sands of dollars with which to produce his annual. Nfaiiy things can be done with money, and he and his staff did them. The book was widely copied since that time. The real judgment of an annual can safely be placed in the hands of others. lf the book is widely copied, then it was a truly great annual. Through 1931, the coffers of the REDSKIN knew no cramped conditions, b11t with the next year support fell off Zlllll reductions of all expenditures were necessary. lfwing jones was unfortun- ate in 1932. He planned much of his annual during the summer months, and spent much money for the opening Zlllll ... rw - division pages. lhat year support fell to a new all time low, and it was with the utmost difficulty that the annual was produced. The 1932 R 1ios141N was the smallest of all REDSIQINS. hlax Stansburyls 1933 RIEDSKIN hit a new note in effort to produce a large book on very limited finances. Last year, Sam lklahaffey hit upon a natural theme for t11e R1ins1q1N as it celebrated its twenty- fifth birthday. It is important to remember all these things as you turn the pages of this book. lCvery page of this annual represents at least five hours of work on the part of some member of the staff. This in addi- tion to the hours spent planning thi- pages and the entire book represents con- siderable efifort on the part of your staff. Special mention goes to Delores Xvadsworth Zlllll james Skinner who have carried far more than their share of the staffs work by virtue of their positions. NVadsworth as secretary Zlllll assistant to the editor has typed a vast majority of the copy as well as see- ing that it was t11rned in on time. Skin- ner as managing editor has handled yir- tually all ofthe pictures and thought Ollf many brilliant ideas for the improvement of the book. THIC 1035 RICDSIQIN S'1'A1 lf lf. lf. tNV.x1.1.yD NV.x1.1.1s . . lfflimr fJI.liN VV. I,1'xc1-1 lf11.11i11z'.u-rl1111111911 ls. l,R.X'1 I' .... 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.EIIITUI-ll .ANC T ll 1 - v v Ia lx. lXX'.XLI.Yl VV.-XI.LIS, . . . ln flfllillj fllllflxllf rllrzzzgwx. College annuals have come in for their share of criticism during the lean years that haye come clattering down upon our Ci 7t heads since I 1-7. And we are not say- IH fllllf Stllllt' of l'lllS Cl'll'lL'lSlll IS HOT g . ustified. There has been a tendency xmong college annual publishers to re- tain all of the old methods of presenting the school year in pictorial parade. llhere has not been enough vision ap- plied to the yearbook field. People who pay the freight on college annuals have not been getting dollar for dollar value on their college annual investments. 2'- l nless steps are taken at once to give them value honestly, their support of iollege annuals will vanish like the ante- lope from our great VVestern plains. This presents the yital problem facing college annual editors every place. To the support that they have retained through the lean years new support must be added. lfxpenditures on college annuals must he iustmed. Many college editors were beginning to see the need for changes in yearbook construction back in IOQH. Ihe problem was becoming acute then, but the depression came along to shorten budgets and decrease reyenue. About all 1 majority of them were able to do was publish their books as best they could by decreasing the number of pages. A few nditors were able to maintain their sup- port for a year or two and made some cxperiments before the crash eventually sent them down. These few experiments are of great value to all college editors who are now trying to improve their books. Had the depression failed to appear, the standard of all college annuals would have been 5 raised. A new trend in yearbook con- struction would have been installed, but the crash came and with it came shat- tered hopes for improvement in college annuals. The criticism that all annuals are alike is justified. They are fine bound volumes with eight opening section pages, eight division pages, and a big ar- ray of artistic layouts involving diller- ent sections of the book supposed to por- tray the year's activities of the campus. fiDLEN XV. LYNCH, . . Ill' ll1f1d't'.f 0111115 nlrrf. lint they fail in doing even this. The students themselves are disgusted with the beauty pictures, the views and the features. VVhat these student subscribers want 15 actual pictures of actual student life and activity on the campus for the year. They do not care about the ex- pensive opening and division page themes of annuals. The staff of the 1935 Risnsiiirs does not claim any very great credit for try- ing to make a college aimual different than its long line of predecessors. llflany college annual staff members have had the same ideas. lllany college editors are facing the same problem today. How- ever, we do believe that we are doing something to give the students their monies' worth. The H735 RIEDSKIN will not be the biggest or best aimual that has ever been published at Oklahoma Agricultural and llilechanical College, but it will be vastly diflerent from all of the REDSKINS that have gone before it. It will be a bargain. It will be a bargain because the frills are being eliminated and honest pictures of how the other half lives are being given a preference in the book. The ex- pensive opening and division page art has been eliminated too, and in its place for a theme we have worked out an idea to tie the different sections of the book together that we believe you will like. A few snatches of actual campus humor and a division of the old view section are used on the division pages. In the opening section you find actual pictures of people you are interested in. The views are not the old-style impossible pictures of other years. They are pic- tures alive with students as they move about the campus. ln building this annual, we have gone to more work than is the usual case in constructing a college yearbook. The entire stall has spent long hours prepar- ing the copy. The copy this year is much dillerent than in previous years. An effort has been made to give much interesting and useful information that will remain with you so long as you re- tain possession of your annual. All of the changes made have been carefully considered before they were actually made. liach change has been considered individually. Before we as- sumed to make it, we first talked with many students and learned from them their reactions to such changes. This we deemed necessary because they are the people who must judge this annual. lf you students like it, then the steps we have taken to improve the REDSKIN will not have been taken in vain. The progressive changes can be improved up- on easily in the years to come and prog- ress and vision will be the lights that guide the destinies of future editors. For the past 25 years, editors have re- mained blind to the fact that Orange and Black, were the college colors. We are putting out a cover of simplicity in design that shouts out the college colors. It has been called gaudy by some of our conservative Critics. And gaudy it isl

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ll E lil I C ii T I 0 i TRYING YEARS require exceptional vision and foresight, and during the past few years Okla- homa Agricultural and Mechanical College has been blessed With people of vision and foresight in admin- istrative, teaching and research Fields, and her students have had the faith in these people. T o those who have seen through the gloom a bright, distant day, the stall of the 1935 Redskin dedicate this volume to the school's people of the yearl, l i