Texas Tech University - La Ventana Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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THROUGH THE WINDOW Registration took place September 29. 1925 and on completion there were 910 students. While this was not many it was enough to make a beginning for Texas Techno- logical College. On November 3, 1925, the newly formed Press Club petitioned the faculty to be allowed to publish a yearbook, with James Biggers, sophomore engineering student, as edi- tor and Tom Morrison as business manager. Permission was granted and the staff set to work. The yearbook needed a name. The Press Club and con- cerned students met in the Ad building to discuss possible names for the annual. After some moments of discussion, Miss Elizabeth West, faculty sponsor, took the group out to the west entrance and pointed to the Spanish windows of the building. She commented that since a window is used to view a happening within by those who are outside or to view a happening outside by those who are within, a two way communication is established; so with a yearbook. Since the Spanish motif was the architectural theme of Tech and the Spanish word for window was la ventena then why not use this as the name of the yearbook, reflecting the life and activities of the students at Tech. The name was unani- mously accepted and thus for the past 49 years the name La Vantana has been on the covers of Texas Tech year- books. The first copy of La Ventena consisted of 260 pages including twenty-seven pages of advertising. Ruth Horn Andrews later wrote that by literary standards the 1926 issue of La Ventanu was not a qualified success, but as a record of the first year of the College it carried tremendous interest . . . La Ventena of 1 926 was the work of an inex- perienced staff who started at least six months after most college yearbooks were underway. Unlike the athletic teams which abandoned the name Mat- adors in favor of Red Raiders and college newspaper Torea- dor changed to University Daily, La Ventena has retained its original title. Homer Dale Wade, Establishment of Texas Technological College 1916-1 923 (The Texas Tech Press, 1 956) . Ruth Horn Andrews, The First Thirty Years (The Texas Tech Press, 1956). Forty-six years of personal experiences of James R. Oammill , Ed.D. Professor Emeritus and President of 1 935 Senior Class.

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LA VENTANA texas tech volume 49 1974

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