University of Oklahoma - Sooner Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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JERRY lAIZIlIlE The Married jennifer Laizure spends a fall afternoon playing in the park near her home. If anything is synonymous with college, it is pressure. Faced with deadlines for papers, tests and studying as well as the responsibilities of everyday living, the life of a college student is crammed with incredible stresses. And usually, students will seek ways in which some of that pressure can be relieved; through lighter class loads, fewer extra-curricular attachments, or a variety of other measures. And then, there are those collegiates that have added to the pressures upon them. Some students, fully realizing the massive responsibili- ties entailed in pursuing course work at the University level, still feel they are able to take on more. In other words, there are those collegiates that are married. There is a growing number of married couples among the faces which populate OU. They can be found in many of the houses and apartment complexes which envelope the physical University. As well, there are the sections of University Housing tKraettii, Parkview etc.1 J aw .

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ABOVE: A moment of laughter captures the Laizure family during an evening at home in their apartment. LEFT: One of OU's many married students, lerry Laizure begins a day at work at the journalism Press in Copeland Hall. which are strictly devoted to the married student. These then are the places in which may be found those Sooner students who are more than loaded down with responsibilities and pressures, academic as well as marital. And among these many married faces, there is Jerry Laizure. Classified as a junior and majoring in journalism Jerry Laizure keeps quite a busy schedule. He maintains his home in Parkview Apartments on Stinson Street. Married for nearly three years, Jerry and his wife Peggy have a daughter, Jennifer. The three of them live in a crowded yet cozy two bedroom apartment and seem to find life together satisfying. Despite all the pressures of paying bills and going to school, Peggy and I enjoy our life together. And of course, Jennifer adds a lot of excitement to the daily routine. Laizure, with economic .needs always on his mind, works at the Journalism Press in Copeland Hall. There, he does most every kind of work involved in the production of the Oklahoma