Tennessee Technological University - Eagle Yearbook (Cookeville, TN)

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l i . .1 -l -i 1 - .....l ibeabcafion In gratitude for leadership in helping us BUILD TODAY FOR A BETTER TOMORROVV, We dedicate this l950 edition of the EAGLE to EVERETT C. DERRYBERRY on his tenth ZIIIIIIVCTSZIFY as president ol' 'Tennessee Polytechnic Institute. I 6

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CONTENTS OPENING SECTION . . I ADMINISTRATION I8 CLASSES ......... 44 FEATURES. . . . . . I06 SPORTS .......... I42 ORGANIZATIONS . . . I74 KAMPUS KAPERS .... 2I6 ADVERTISEMENTS .... 224 INDEX ........... 250

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rediclenfg lie er Tennessee Tech's yearbook for 1950, THE EAGLE, records a particularly signihcant year in the college's aca- t t demic life and in the history of our American civiliza- tion. Tennessee Tech, at the mid-century, looks back to the beginnings of its college life thirty-five years ago as a junior college and then sweeps on to its emergence as a full-fledged technical college with physical facilities, faculty, and educational standards to match its curricu- lum and the size of its enrollment. Today, after an era of expansion, your Alma Mater takes its place and full stature in the family of American universities and insti- tutions of higher learning and moves forward with in- creased determination toward its original goals. This year at the turn of the Twentieth Century, Americans may obtain a new perspective of our way of life which may help us in scanning the future. During the Hrst hfty years of this century, we have marched on into an increasingly complex, mechanized, and indus- trialized era with emphasis always on the application of knowledge. If these gains are to be made secure, We must now focus on the understanding of knowledge. Only spiritual qualities, such as sympathy, tolerance, and agreement can produce ways and means of making our way of life meaningful to men ol' good will the world over and give reality on earth to the Brotherhood of Man and the Fatherhood of God. This present student generation, as it moves across the threshold of adult life, is not only the heir of the first half of the Twentieth Century but it now looms as the potential architect and builder of a vaster structure that may at last crown the ages with a reflection of man made in the image of his Creator. lI77dl?TSff171diTlg-ll'1lS is the challenge still sounding prophetically for your generation and the Twentieth Century. XVith all thy getting, get UNDERSTANDING. l 1 .....x..'rrf:-EQIIW9 BBW' Pqge, 7 Q.-um-, f ,-,f,a.m , 7 ,,,. ,N ms , A em aan 14, -W w..m.,.W.,...y..wwm, .,