University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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1834 GREETINGS FOR MANY YEARS THE HIGHER CLASSES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HAVE WISHED TO PRODUCE AN ANNUAL. AT FIRST IT WAS TALKED ABOUT, THEN EFFORTS GREW MORE DEFI- NITE UNTIL LAST YEAR ALMOST BEHELD ITS BIRTH. THIS YEAR OUR CACTUS GREETS YOU. SHE IS TEE TENDER OFF- SPRING OF THE ACADEMIC AND LAW CLASSES OF ' 94, AND THEREFORE TO THEM DEAR. SHE IS A FIRST CHILD AND, AS SUCH, DOUBLY DEAR. ADORNED WITH HER OWN SWEET FLOWER, SHE FIRST LEAVES HER TEXAS HOME TO GREET HER ELDER BROTHERS. THE LABOR THAT HAS BEEN EXPENDED, THE ANXIOUS CARE OF THESE, THE PIONEER EDITORS, ARE NOW FORGOTTEN, AND WE BID CUR CACTUS GOD SPEED, HOPING THAT TO THOSE SHE MEETS SHE MAY BRING SOME KNOWLEDGE OF OUR COLLEGE ORGANIZATIONS AND SOME SAVOR OF COLLEGE CHEER AND COLLEGE FUN. Table of Contents Academics 33 Features 113 Residences 201 Greeks 249 Student Government 352 Organizations 381 Military 493 Athletics 509 Classes . . 573

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With this greeting, the first edition of The University of Texas yearbook, the 1894 Cactus, opened its record of events and personalities of that enterprising era. Today, after 76 years of capturing the highlights of Forty Acre college life, the 1969 Cactus comes to you: the exploring student, the inquiring professor, the reminiscing alumnus. Within its pages are not only impressions of the current year, but also memories of persons and events that molded University spirit into form, that shaped University loyalty into tradition. The old gives way to the new: the student who attended the first classes in 1883 has been succeeded by four generations, each unique in its own way. But a bond of tradition unites the past with the present, Showing that the joys, frustrations, and goals of all UT students in all eras are not so different.