Stephen F Austin State University - Stone Fort Yearbook (Nacogdoches, TX)

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PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE Colleges are strikingly similar to parents. Both rejoice in each new arrival; both visualize each newcomer as a potential leader in some field or fields of human endeavor; both struggle to give their best to each one entrusted to their care; both sympathize in the tribulations and rejoice in the achievements of their charges; both hate to see the ties of wholesome daily admiration, and companionship snapped by the inevitable maturity which comes to all normal persons, each selfishly wishing that these bonds could remain forever; and yet both glow with the greatest of pride when their progeny actually go forth and reflect the sincerity and adequacy of their training by becoming strong, honorable, whole- some, capable men and women, so thinking, so working, so living that they reflect at all times the best in human existence. Naturally, we at Stephen F. Austin State College hate to see you, our 1956-57 grad- uates, leave these forty acres. You have become part of us. Nevertheless, we are proud of that which you already have accomplished, and are confident that you can and will reach many more goals of even greater personal consequence and social magnitude. We believe you possess the basic intellectual tools and academic skills needed to build lives of distinction. So for each of you we wish a full life-time of opportunities for hard, produc- tive, enjoyable work, work which will make you a compliment to yourself, your family, your friends, your nation, your college, and your Creator. Paul L. Boynton

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FOREWORD The 1957 Stone Fort depicts a year at SFA — a year beginning in April, 1956, and closing March, 1957. For some, this book will contain the memories of their first year at college. For others, the 1957 Stone Fort will be the last memento of college life. But for all students, this book is intended as an aid to help you retrace your footsteps through a year at Stephen F. Austin State College. 1957 STONE FORT STAFF Betty Ann Yarborough murrkll tuornhill Carolyn Guest John Hardin Lester Edwin Gaston, Jr. Editor Assistant Editor Copy Editor Business Alanager Sponsor Mary Hood Tom McGee Joyce Hinton ASSISTANTS Dick Burnett Deanne Dunbar Penny Chadwick Lillian Singleton COMPETITION

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BOARD OF REGENTS Hubert L. Mills Houston J. S. Woodward President Dallas Miss Elizabeth Koch San Antonio C. Smith Ramsey San Augustine Richard F. Stovall Floydada