Sul Ross State University - Brand Yearbook (Alpine, TX)

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AUL R. WEYERTS hology and Range Ani- lal Husbandry . Nature’s lomenclature and life’s vodus operandi are made ascinatingly appealing y Dr. Paul’s vigorous ap¬ proach. m W. E. BILL” WILLI¬ AMS. Director of Teach¬ er Placement . Education and Range Animal Hus¬ bandry . Inexhaustible, versatile, and resourceful - Bill” Williams is Sul Ross’ ambassador of good¬ will and educational en¬ trepreneur extraordinary. FREDDIE R. WILMOTH . Business Administration .She demonstrates her teaching by everyday ex¬ amples that give her stu¬ dents goals for achieve¬ ment. Mini jjH BOBBY WIXSON . Ge¬ ology . Gravel to graciers, crags to continents - no less than our whole planet is the interest of zealous Bobby Wixson. RALPH T. WOOTTON . Education . A man who can make a hard thing easy - educational savant Ralph Wootton. ization. ...AND IS TO COME... DELBERT A. DYKE MERIDON V. GARNER EVELYN MELLARD E. C. SHORTT B8HH WILLIAM E. THOMSON Faculty members on leave of absence to do graduate work, research, and to do super¬ visory work under the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organ-

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LANELL SKINNER . Librarian Capable and gracious — always ready to serve - beloved by staff and students. CORBETT SMITH . Music Glowing trainer of ambitious youth, winsome and effective. STATHER ELLIOT THOMAS Foreign Languages . Considerate and understanding. Multilinguist who habitually transcends the de¬ mands of duty. EVERETT TURNER . Range Animal Husbandry . Patient, in¬ dustrious authority on making things thrive. ZENOBIA VERNER . English Resolute precisionist who in¬ stills in her neophytes an urge to¬ ward improvement. IDA VERNON . Government . Experienced and disciplined with an orderly mind that challenges and inspires. RAY VAN CLEEF . Physical Education - Basketball and Base¬ ball Coach . Demanding but fair — a cultured gentleman who brings to sports his standards of perfection - a real coach. BARTON WARNOCK . Bio¬ logy . Beloved scientist and ad¬ ministrator - one who goes far beyond the realm of duty to serve the interests of Sul Ross and the human race. ...ALL LIFE THAT IS...

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THE BURNING BRAND SYMBOL OF THE SUL ROSS SPIRIT THE BIRTH OF THE BAR-SR-BAR IN 1920 Miss Linda Lancaster’s physical education clas planned a picnic -- and it must have been a fancy affair - for a mon¬ ogram was sought for place-cards! The aid of V. J. Smith, one of the original faculty members, was enlisted; and finally the Bar-SR-Bar was suggested and selected. At the time it was noted that the selection resembled a cattle brand. Shortly thereafter, when the Ex-Students Loan Fund was established, contributions included several head of livestock; so it was deemed necessary that a brand be adopted by the school. The place-card monogram, being appropriate, was chosen and properly recorded at the Brewster County Court House. In I 925 the existence ol the stone monument on what is now Bar-SR-Bar Hill became fact. From these obscure and unpretentious beginnings have come the mark and the mon¬ ument that have since united each successive student body with those who have gone before and those who will follow in the future. WAS UNATTENDED BY EITHER POMP OR CEREMONY. Annually whitewashed by a regiment of freshmen and majestically lighted in solemn ceremonies on state occasions, the Sul Ross Brand is a unique and proud emblem of a u- nique and justly proud insitution. It is more than a symbol. Its true significance lies not within the symbol itself but rather in those intangibles of ideal and spirit that are the minds and hearts of those who honor that emblem. The Bar-SR-Bar is not just an apt mark, or an eye-catching device, or an item of only local interest-but the very focal point of that pioneering fervor that has marked generations of Sul Ross students who have called the world their home. It is the common denominator of those illustrious ex-stu¬ dents with their high marks in all fields, the latest class of en¬ tering freshmen and all the ranks between. Old memories and recent ones, yesterday’s aspirations and today’s newborn hopes, enduring bonds of a decade and this year’s brief acquaintances are all marshalled in the minds of Sul Ross men and women of all times by that blazing badge, the Bar-SR-Bar. 20