Rocky Mountain College - Yellowstone / Poly Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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DR. WILLIAM D. COPELAND The Pt evident Our new president has our trust and our hopes. Making no multitude of promises, advo- cating no bally-hoo publicity schemes, he won our respect. Appearing in work clothes on Clean-Up Day and working beside us, he won our friendship. On a Saturday morning recently, he was observed trimming the hedge near the conserv- atory. Few presidents would take such personal interest in their college. A4mnUttathn Miss Bessie Gibbons, the office manager, is also director of Kimball dormitory. She comes to us from Lake Forest College. We are fortunate to have a person of her training. She takes a great interest in all the girls and is one of the key people on the campus. Mrs. Maurice Willey, the bookstore manager, serves also in the capacity of receptionist. A graduate of Smith College, her home is in Boston. Together she and Miss Gibbons represent a loyal team for protecting the inner sanctum of President Copeland ' s office. PAGE THREE

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Tbente off tfout Annual 7ke Steamboats once rounded the bend of the Missouri and chugged up the waters of the Yellowstone. Indian braves once rode their ponies off the highest point of a cliff, plunging downward — being smashed on the jagged rocks or caught in the swirling depths of the river. Believing the Great Spirit would accept their sacrifice, they died to prevent the small-pox epidemic from spreading further among their people. Those lusty days when Calamity Jane careened through the unpaved streets, buxom, brazen and boisterous — those days are gone. What was once a riotous confusion of half-marked burial grounds is now a neat enclosure marked Boot-Hill. Yellowstone Kelly, an early scout, rests in the rims where the Crow Indian, Black Otter, is buried. Although this valley of ours, this gateway to the mountains, has been described by travel folders as busy and thriving, there are times when she is content to slumber in the sun, remembering the pageantry of her frontier. Sacrifice Cliff, magnificent and brooding, still overlooks our valley. The same little jack-pines of years ago listen to the wind, sighing over half-for- gotten tales. Come along with us on this trip up the Yellowstone. Linger at your leisure over the past. Look to the years ahead with confidence. PAGE TWO

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STAFF OF THE YELLOWSTONE Reading from left to right: Back row— Dr. Martin Freese, sponsor; Eugene Boggess business manager; Millard Meredith, advertising; Bill Nakamatsu. associate editor; Boyd O. Boyce, photography; Ray DePalma. sports and advertising. Front row— Marie Weeding and Frances Dehnert, society; June Hall Mills, editor. ' Our Boy Herman For the first time in nearly ten years, since 1939 to be exact, there will be an annual. It may not be the best ever printed. We do not feel that it is the worst. The whole school was in the process of re-organization at the beginning of the fall quarter, so the annual staff was not formed until December. From December to February, the staff worked many te- dious hours. There were occasional highlights and many dark days. The monotony was broken by scalding arguments, much fist-shaking and some whip-cracking. When it was in the hands of the printers, we were vastly relieved and slightly slap-happy. The staff deserves three cheers for their patience and their effort. Praise should be go to Herman Harms, Our Boy, for his cheerful acceptance of work and his willingness to tote the photographer ' s equipment from building to building. Although not a regular staff member, Herman is certainly an honorable one. Henry Trenk, the friend of all the students, belongs here on the staff page as special adviser, and on several other pages, too. Officially he holds the responsible position of engineer, but his interests are so varied we find his good advice and help almost everywhere. Our sincere thanks to Henry Trenk. Mr. Henry Trenk