Plymouth State University - Conning Tower Yearbook (Plymouth, NH)

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Introduction Not so long ago at a far-away and exotic place called Florida State University, (Swamp-ville to its friends) fellow named Ginger Gardner wrote a little ditty entitled The Yearbook is Dead. Now oddly enough, Ginger was a yearbook editor and not quite the sort of guy you'd expect to hear saying that. But Ginger did and what he said bears a little mention. Ginger said something like: . . . the college yearbook that attempts to appeal to any specific element within the university, or a traditional association of elements, such as a senior class, the Greeks or the club system is hokey i.e., contrived. So consequently Ginger threw them all out and came out with an entirely new yearbook that encompassed a broader vision: he captured what happened at FSU from as many eyes as possible. A yearbook. Now PSC isn't FSU. Swampville is a hell of a lot bigger than PSC and it houses a much broader spectrum of students than we do. Also PSC is far more traditionally minded than FSU but we don't necessarily think that's bad. Although we admire what Ginger accomplished, we didn't want to run off and copy his book. At the same time we didn't want to remain stagnant and not do anything. So what we've done is start the Conning Tower off on a new evolutionary path. Where the path will eventually take us we do not presume to predict. We do like the FSU idea, but where the book will end up is anyones guess. We've cut a lot of what you might call fat from the book. In other words, we trimmed a lot of traditional sections that really didn't serve any purpose. Take the clubs for example. While we recognize that almost all of the orginizations serve their members, some serve the people of this college as a whole more than others. Therefore you’ll see fewer organizations in the book this year. The active ones you'll see. The rest of the book follows the same thesis. We sort of like the book, we hope you like it too. Not all of us like all of the book, but what what is a body to do? We're operating under the assumption that we'll probably giggle at this book in a few years, but that’s the risk you take when you set one time, on place down on paper. Ideas change, faces change, but this book is the way we see PSC, its people, our-sleves in 1976. Mary C. Marsis David A. Nesbitt