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A ride across history with the Bar SR Bar There are calves on Normal Hill! Where is Normal Hill you ask? You are standing on top of it if you’re on the Sul Ross cam¬ pus. In its early years, this institution wasn’t a university. When it opened, the students attended Sul Ross Normal College. The name was later changed to Sul Ross State Teachers College, and, more recently, Sul -Ross State University. But during those early years, many new and wonderful things were happening. As the doors opened in the summer of 1920, people began attending class, clubs , started forming, and professors began j planning for the semester. Rolls were called, field trips were scheduled. Picnics even worked their way onto the calendar. One of these picnics played a special and very important role in the history of Sul Ross. It all began one day early in this first school year in the physical education class of Associate Professor Linda Lancaster. She and the class planned a hike to the rifle range to have a picnic. After organizing | the affair, someone decided a monogram was needed for the place cards. No one knew of a design to use, so another girl sug¬ gested that the Professor of Manual Arts, Victor J. Smith, might be of some help. Mr. Smith took the problem to his in¬ dustrial education students. After drawing several possible designs on a black board, the SR was chosen as the most repre¬ sentative. Since that time, the Bar SR Bar emblem has worked its way into almost every part of Sul Ross and has become instantly recognizable as the symbol of this univer¬ sity. And how did this insignia become so widely known? Later on in that same fall semester, a prominant Houston businessman made a gift of $510 to start a student loan fund at Sul Ross. A committee of faculty mem¬ bers decided to raise additional funds to in¬ crease the loan fund. The campaign, however, was shrouded in secrecy. All of the publicity just advertised a special meet¬ ing to be held at the college auditorium, with nothing said about the loan fund. On the afternoon of that special meeting, a parade began in the middle of downtown Alpine. Just about every citizen in Alpine came out to watch the parade and find out the purpose behind the festivities. As the parade moved further toward Sul Ross, everyone joined in to see where it would end. As they approached the auditorium, the mystery was revealed when three train¬ ing school pupils announced the beginning of the Sul Ross Loan Fund organization. Immediately people began making dona¬ tions. Pennies were given by small children, sizeable amounts came in from college classes, citizens gave money, pigs and even chickens, and local ranchers pledged to donate calves. In fact, ranchmen planned to donate so many cal¬ ves that the committee decided they should select a brand for when the cattle arrived. That’s when it was decided that the monogrammed SR of Miss Lancaster’s P.E. class would make the perfect brand for Sul Ross. As the year progressed, with the spring semester in full swing, talk of starting a yearbook circulated around campus. Then on March 4,1921, at a special pep rally, the student body was given the official go ahead and the first BRAND became a reality. Miss Anne Ayncsworth, professor of English, suggested that the book be called the BRAND after it was decided to place the increasingly popular Bar SR Bar on the cover. Late that same year, news reached Sul Ross that the cattle donated to the Student Loan Fund would soon be arriving. To prepare for the branding of these calves, a local blacksmith was called upon to forge a branding iron with the SR, and on January 7,1922, the Bar SR Bar was registered as the cattle brand for Sul Ross Normal Col¬ lege in the Record of Marks and Brands book at the Brewster County Court House. Now all they lacked were the calves, and the senior class solved that problem. At 1:30 p.m. Saturday, January 14, the senior class led the first three calves up Normal Hill. Everyone in the group, in¬ cluding the calves, was clad in gold and white, the original school colors. When they reached the flag pole, Frank Cross, the senior class president, presented the calves to Miss Ayncsworth who accepted them on behalf of the Student Loan Fund. By the fall of 1922, 18 calves had been branded with the SR to be sold in the spring of ’23, with the proceeds going into the fund. As you can see, this school has come a long way since those first few years, but some things will never change. Sul Ross will always be the first school to have a cat¬ tle brand for its insignia. Looking Back - The 1922 BRAND depicts the first calves donated to the Sul Ross Student Loan Fund on January 14 of that same year. Ride for the Brand
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Campus Life Meet The Lobos - Volleyball players Fonda Glover and Tammy Walls confirm that Sul Ross is number one. Sul Ross has a way of drawing people from all kinds of backgrounds and many different places together. This wide variety of personal experiences has created a unique blend of individuals where each has contributed his own part to the heritage of Sul Ross. It is up to us to keep that spirit alive. So while we are here, let ' s all Ride for the Brand. Being There -- Clip-n-Brand members cheer on the Sul Ross Lobos at a home football game, one of the many ways the popular club supports OF Sully. Ride for the Brand
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