University of Oklahoma - Sooner Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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fiioii ' li 111 lni the t;llc■llt III nc,iil Um ' MU Iwii liinlb.ill pi.a CIS, appr(). im.iti-I . This iloi-s not piiU-iiil to he .t pn-uM- i-stiniatc, since there exists a shiliii;: si ' ah ' ami li iple-threat halthaiks I ' limiiiaiiil hi;;lu-i prices than, lor exainple. ileleii- i e ;iuaiil . Ill the lilt cais ).l . Ii.hl hiTii luiuliniiiM;; In-liire 1 came liere M-ekin the lii:ht, our Alma .Mater liail awanleil somethni}; like J,V-)(i ile- jjrees. I coiiM liieak this ilow 11 inlii all the aiimis t pes aiul kiiiils 111 sheepskin, if stroll};!) nr.ued, hut I ilnn ' t throw tllat suit 111 iiitiiinia- tioii aiiMinil m a loose lash- ion. Nor will 1 attempt to fjive statistics on decree auanls yiinc 1041, as that ma still he top prioiitx stufi and 1 have no ish to be in- vestigated b the FHI. Siit- h ce it to say that b this school ear ot 10 0- SI an- other large batch of nnitton parchments have been dis- trihiited ,ind carried out into the world, bringing the com- plete fifty-nine year total to somewhere between ,Sfl and 40 thousand degrees. This doesn ' t mean there aie as mail) graduates as degrees, since some people are hoggish about it and collect three or four, but it adds u|i to a lot ot graduates nexertheless. So far as m research assistants ha e been able to deter- mine, nobody has bothered to figure up the number of O.U. About the author . . . William R. (liillj Sinti, « hn aullKired the strir on %liieh the Huim- ol the 1951 SoosKR Yearbook is based, is one of tht most sueccss- ful Kradiiates of the Walter Campbell-Foster Harris professional writing courses at the ( ' niversity of Okla- homa. In the past two years Seott has sold a serial and a do en short stories to ( .otlirr ' s, and has contributed to the Sutttrdiiy Kvniing Post, This ll ' tik, Mrl, inn ' s, Irgitsy, and others. His stories are currently appearing in two anthologies. Bill Scott ' s work is not new to ().! ' . students, lie drew the cartoons in the 1 94, ! and 19+9 SdiiNERS and has done cartooning and writun stories for other school publications. .Muiuniises ulio like ni se!l neglected to obtain degrees, but b methods w hich arc .secret and exclusive I have a.scertaincii to my () n satisfaction that betw ecu one and ten out of every ten students who enroll at O.l . drop out before ac iiiiriiig the necessary credits. These people, degree or no degree, be- iiime ahimni, u hicli is li;it 1 am driving at. The point is, out of all the thousands of alumni who have departed the campus, the yearbook editor could find only one who was willing to type up this thesis for practi- cally no remuneration. He accomplished it in part by an ingenious ruse known locally as springing for the refresh- ments , lie hasn ' t actually bought me the blue plate spe- cial et, but he inliuds to. Also, I am to get a free copy of this loorstop, and when you break it down that fig- ures out at about my usual fee. E.x ' cept, of course, a sec- ond hand yearbook has no hock value. As he pointed out, fashion- ing the body of the text for this issue of the annual is a signal honor. It ' s real auspi- cious and all that. Hut at the same time it bungs w itli it a certain melancholia, it ' s like liointing out to a gu that he has aged beyond ripeness and become a crustx, garrulous codger who fits the role of Old Grad . Write us up a thing, he said, from the angle of an Old (|uiik eignrelle is ah :i s a welrome break during thnsi- long hours put in .it llu- lilirMr . Sooner spirit is cNeinpIitied b . enrias at a pep r;,ll . Here students participate in that most unpleasant campus activity — pa iMg lees.

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' tf, A iirLJ .■•« .5J - P ' -» i ' ir 1 i Ji A warm ()kl:iliniii:i mmi piiurs diuvn mi U. U. students rt-laxiiifi lirtwceii cla , BOOMERQg- j oSfii y tff fFe n versity of Ok a ioma as Seen Through fhe Eyes of an ' Old Grod ' . •500 N-P n t R D M - 1 R 3 c a V d I rV coff N my l ' )02 University Kncyi ' lopi ' dia, vohmic 7, Ocliic to Ri ' s|iirMtii)n, there is ;ippri) i- mately one and oiie-sixteentli inelies of small tyi ' e dexoted to Oklahoma, University of — a coeducational, non-sectarian institution in Norman, Okla. ; founded in 1 S ' li ; reported at the close of 1900 as follows: Professors ami instructors, 21; students, 272; volumes in the lihrary, 7,000; grounds and buildinjjs valued at , ()0,000 ; income, $25,000; number of fjrailu- ates, 36; president, David R. ]?oyd, A. M. In 1940, when I graduated trom a piep school known as the C CC and drifted into this sphere of higher learning, O.l ' . was still coeducational and non-sectarian, but there were a l(jt more professors and the like, some S,S27 residential students, 226,470 hooks in the libraiy, buildings valued at an astiouomical linure, ,uid ( .I ' . ' s income for my freshman car - including those fees I ne -er paid, thus fouling up the statistics — v;is a mere $1, ,770, or

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The football stadium is the scene for impressive gradual Radio students work hard to learn the arts anil techniques of producing programs. V At the activity kstival each organization encourages students to join their cluh.