South Carolina State University - Bulldog Yearbook (Orangeburg, SC)

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THE 1967 BULLDOG Published by the Students of South Carolina State College ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA

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Dedication To MR. IRA B. DAVIS It was in 1953 that you came to South Carolina State College to teach English. You brought with you the qualifi- cations for a successful career here: a B.A. and a M.A. degree in English earned, respectively, at Howard and Pennsylvania State Universities; a winning personality; varied experiences in educational work and travel; and a desire to execute your responsibilities with diligence, sincerity, and perfection. As a teacher, you have etched your image in the hearts and minds of your students and colleagues. They admire you because of the profound knowledge you possess, of the subjects you teach, your honesty to your students, and your insistence on quality performance. Also, everyone holds you in great esteem because of the assiduous and meticulous care with which you have “cap- tured” and preserved, in pictures and words, the tradition, growth, and development of State College in the BULLDOG, of which you have served as adviser for more than a decade. Throughout these years, the BuLLDoG staff remembers the many hours of the day, night, and weekends you spent supervising photography, writing articles, organizing ma- terials, running down staff members, and making trips via your Volkswagen to solicit advertisements and to take care of other details for the yearbook. The staff also remembers the times you spent sandwiching the grading of themes from your English classes between the editing of write-ups for pub- lication in the BULLDOG. There were times when, you were severely critical and fussy. Typically, you would say, ““This write-up is too long.” “Dr, Hasbeen apparently didn’t edit this article,” “Blank fraternity’s pictures are late again.” “ Jerrie Sue’s dressed to gaudily to take a picture,” etc. But throughout all of these situations you, somehow, managed to flash a smile. We, your staff members, appreciate your critical eye and painstaking care, for without these the yearbook would not have merited the praise from its many viewers; nor would it have received such outstanding recognition as a First Class Honor Rating by the Associated Collegiate Press of the University of Minnesota for the past ten years, or the coveted top honors with ratings of “Superior” awarded by the Annual Southern Regional School Press Institute of Savannah, Georgia, for the past three years. In spite of these attestations of your outstanding work, today you undoubtedly would name someone else as the person who deserves the honor of which you are now the recipient. We agree with you that others are deserving, but we think you have merited this distinction too long to hold it in abeyance until a later time. Always cognizant of your extreme modesty, we proceeded in secrecy and sometimes with difficulty in advancing our choice—a choice we feel has the unanimous endorsement of the State College family—so that we would be able to extend to you an encomuim which you truly earned and which, being aware, you would have denied yourself. You have done far more than to “capture” in pictures and words the tradition, growth, and development of a great institution; you have captured our hearts and have won our enduring respect. It is therefore with pride and gratitude that we dedicate to you, Mr. Ira B. Davis, our adviser, the 1967 edition of the BULLDOG.