Oklahoma State University - Redskin Yearbook (Stillwater, OK)

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DR. HENRY GARLAND BENNETT, . . . the fIl1IlIIfIllSfl'fIf0l' of the year. Dr. Henry Garland Bennett has car- ried Oklahoma Agricultural and Nle- chanical College through the recent period of economic stress in a manner that unquestionably makes him the col- lege administrator of the year. No other college in the state has continued to make progress during the lean years. And Oklahoma Agricultural and Kle- chanical College has made progress! This progress has been no accident! It is the result of careful study and thought upon the problem presented. The record of President Bennett has been phenomenal. The problem has not been too big. He has faced it, and the . . . l1e's one of nfl-zzrouzzd Xflldt'1IfX, GERMAN QDOM. answer has been his. The progress of the college has been the answer to the problemg and the answer to the answer to the problem has been Dr. Henry Gar- land Bennett, president. C. li. Sanborn has long stood out as the most remarkable man on the campus as one who delves into hidden realms. His work in research has accomplished much. Leaving his duties as head of his department, Doctor Sanborn is now de- voting all of his time to research. W'ith an open mind and frank man- ner, he is about his work-the research man of the year! Outspoken in what he believes, tough on those looking for snaps, bitter in his criticism, firm in his stands, lid Lloyd is the outstanding teacher of the year on the Oklahoma Agricultural and lkle- chanical College campus, where he is an PROF. EDVVARD LLOYD, . . . . femilzw' of the year! assistant professor of business adminis- tration. Reputed by students as being the ablest lecturer in the school, he has studied at Pittsburgh, lowa, and Har- vard. His four years actual experience with General Motoi's in the field he is teaching, permits him to speak and give examples with authority as he tears into his lectures with reckless abandon, never stopping until the closing bell breaks the spell he throws over his class like a huge magic blanket. Holding the highest student office in the military department, commander of the regiment, and one of the finest stu- dents ever to study in the School of Commerce, German Odom is president of half-dozen campus organizations and a natural leader of students. Believing DR. C. IC. SANRoRN, . . . . 11t f'ZPFX rferjv fo ffl,-lv' Il fond. firmly that he came to college to get an education, Odom is getting it, and further he likes what he is finding out. Betty Ann Steele does not weigh '70 pounds wringing wet, but she is the most outstanding woman student on the campus. President of her sorority, an honor society, and mixed up in an official way with half the clubs on the campus, she finds time to get over socially and make one of the highest grade point aver- ages ever completed by any woman stu- dent at the college. A stinging rebuflf to the saying that women have no brains, she is the woman student of the year. . . . . mm' she l'fIll r'ooK'! B ETTY AN N Sr I2 fi i, E.

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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