University of Wyoming - WYO Yearbook (Laramie, WY)

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THE, WYO ' •■ • ■••• Ik wC • - ., T r;T-W- ' w ' . : - A Oreat Trust )VERY nation, every family, every university has traditions, has some distinctive features or characteristics that are representative. New- comers at the University usually ask: What are your traditions in the University of Wyoming? We ourselves ask this selfsame question when each year we see what we had in our innocence thought were established customs thrown to the winds and something new introduced that carries with it only the recommendation that it is new. Why not foster the traditions that we have and bring to them the vision of the present day? The new idea you introduce today will be as easy to criticise in years to come as the tradi- tions given to the University by those whose places ycu are occupying. One might take as an example the University yell that for many years rent the campus air. What has become of the old college yell? We have yells, and good ones, but where is the yell that for years and years adorned all college activities? Can ycu give that yell without looking in the World ' s Almanac? It is doubtful. Did it run somewhat in this manner? Rah! Rah! Rah! Zip ! Boom ! Zee ! Let ' r go! Let ' r go! Varsity ! Wy-o-ming, Wy-o-ming. Did you ever try to express this in yells out in the perpetual Wyoming sunshine and unceasing winds? Have you ever tried to express in college years the exact mean ing of these words? Do they mean this? The Freshman child, when not putting whitewash on the big W, or wearing a minature cap, corresponding to his mental capacity, lisps the words of the first line, Raw, Raw, Raw. Little dees he realize that it is not necessary to be told what is so easily dis- cerned. Zip, Boom, Zee, yells the Sophomore. I ' m back to the Varsity; I ' m here, I ' m here because I ' m here. When I talV, I don ' t say anything. Zip, Boom, Zee. Again, honest truthfulness. The Junior, mild, tamed, but ambitious, says: Let ' r Go! Let ' r Go, to the Uni- versity life, not thinking of a certain shy and coy maiden. To the staid Senior who joins in the vocal skirmish, the words: Vars ' ty, Varsity, brings to him the keen realization that Commencement is the ending of four rather joyous years — years free from care and responsibility. The words of the Senior come from a half-parched throat. Then come the Alumni, calling attention to Wyoming, Wyoming, knowing and believing that the development of their state, of their Alma Mater, will bring to the University a realization of their highest hopes and greatest ambitions. With them sing the callow youths of tiny caps; the boasting Sophomores with much to learn; the active Juniors who make Annuals, have Proms and great promise; the Seniors with cap and gewn, who look wise and believe ihat they are deceiving the world. All loyal are these who represent the old ' Varsity yell. Who was it that spoke about traditions? Are they net a vital part of one ' s college life? Should they not be fostered as a great trust? One writes, Lest we forget. G. R. H.

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T n HIS year the University of Wyoming commemorates the twenty-fifth year of devoted service to its cause of Grace Raymond Hebard, who has contributed to its growth as trustee, librarian, historian, instructor. Dr. Hebard ' s extraordinary energy and concentration, her loyalty to the College that has been child of her spirit, her untiring zeal in its behalf, will ever give her place among the founders of an institution whose future as a great university is assured by its traditions of faith- ful and efficient service in the past. Other service, too, has been Dr. Hebard ' s; service to the State of Wyoming, inci- dents in whose past she has sought out with loving painstaking, whose historic trails and sturdy pioneers she has celebrated by word and deed. The state of her adoption she has loved the more because of its early acceptance of the creed of sex-equality. Always she has used her influence for equal pay and equal opportunity for men and women. And who rejoices more sincerely over a woman ' s success than does Dr. Hebard? It is fitting, therefore, that one of the traditions she will leave to the University of Wyoming will be that of a beautiful friendship with one whose memory is inwoven in the texture of its life, Dr. Agnes Wergeland. Dr. Hebard has been honored many times by many different organizations, national, state, and local. She has served in many official capacities where her exceptional executive ability has stood her cause in good stead. With the student-body of the University of Wyoming she has come into close relationship. Many and many a student bears in his heart memories of great kindnesses on the part of Dr. Hebard and of her surprising thought- fulness. No demand on her time has been too great ; no appeal to her sympathies unan- swered. She has given generously of herself and of her possessions. And in appreciation of her devotion, the Annual of the Class of 1916 bears fittingly her name in its dedication.

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j i 1 ' ' ■ ' THE » WYO ;Lm.;!4 ' - ' h ■ ■ ! ' ■ ' J » •• . « An. n« mi l,.. ;; AN N U A t BOARD Editor-in-Chief , Wm. B. Cobb Associate Editor Margaret Bellis Business Manager , Constant L. Irwin Advertising Manager Bernard Howell Assistant Business Manager Jesse Speilman Engravings Ruth Evans Athletics Jas. Laughlin Illustrations Mary Spafford Jokes Katharine Bennitt Colleges and Departments Agnes Johnson Classes... Ruth Swanson Organizations Gladys Perry College Life and Society , , A.lpha Pierson