University of Southern California - El Rodeo Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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. . . without whose invaluable advice and assistance this book never could have been completed . . . That is a phrase seen almost without fail in dedicatory passages of yearbooks throughout the land, year in and year out. It is a phrase which expresses the sincere feeling of the relieved editor who has just completed his once-in-a-lifetime task, the seemingly impossible job of producing a school annual. It is said with all sincerity, but perhaps is a little too all-inclusive in most cases. Not so in this, the 1952 El Rodeo, for it can be said without detracting one whit from all the fine work done by the many hard- working student staff members that: Without his help this book could never have been completed. For we respectfully dedicate this yearbook to Mr. El Rodeo himself — John Morley. Pick up an El Rodeo for almost any year in the past twenty, turn to the final page of the book and read with us a typical apprecia- tion page where the editor, with a giant sigh of relief, writes something along this vein: Coming to the end of this book may bring a note of sadness to the reader as he realizes that it is finished. As I approach the end of the year the same feeling arises within me. Were I to do it over again perhaps it would be easier to satisfy everyone. To all who have had any part in the publication of this El Rodeo I extend deepest thanks and will remember them as friends in the years to come. Then the editor proceeds to take you behind the scenes a bit and pay tribute to those who have rendered technical aid. And in almost any of those books in two decades you will find the name of John Morley singled out for especial thanks. Others may know John as ticket manager, remember him as managing editor of the Alumni Review, or recall that he was away from SC for a while working for a printing plant specializing in yearbooks. But El Rodeo staff members know the real job that John was doing all those years, acting as the cohesive agent which held the yearbook staffs together; the man who saw to it that the irksome jobs got done (all too frequently by doing them himself I : the man with the never-ruffled temperament making the hardest job seem simple. He started his work with El Rodeo in the early thirties, was editor of the 1932 book, a sparkling volume built around an Olympic theme. And you can bet right now he felt — as other editors do — that there was one impossible task he ' d never have to tackle again. Editors always feel at one stage of the game that they have met up with the fabled Gordian Knot . . . there ' s just no chance that the book will ever achieve completion. There ' s no doubt that genial John felt just that way, for we have his own word for it . . . that appreciation page quoted earlier was on the final page of the 1932 El Rodeo and was signed John Morley, Editor. To El Rodeo staff members through the years, Johnny has been a coordinator of activities on the book, one of its hardest workers, the man with the technic al experience, the ability to translate an editor ' s brain- storm into the cold mechanics of the type page. El Rodeo is pleased beyond mere words with the opportunity to dedicate this volume to its own personification — Johnny.

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