University of Wisconsin Stout - Tower Yearbook (Menomonie, WI)

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f Richord Vogtsberger Editor-in-Chief Patricia Soldner Associate Editor 58 TOWER In the future, reading your Tower will be like having the events of the 1957-1958 school year re-enacted for you. The characters will be the people you have known, the scenes will be the ones you saw yourself. Looking at the articles on the activities of this year, you will see not only what is on the pages but all the things that cannot be depicted or described. To recall them for you is the pur- pose of this book. Planning and preparing the Tow er re- quired the cooperation of the staff, the editors and the advisors. Though they had to work under mounting pressure as deadlines neared, production generally progressed smoothly, and the book was published on schedule. The faculty advisors, the student editors and staff, and the publishers have all had their parts in the production of the book you hold in your hands. They present it to you now — the 1958 Tower. Tower Staff James Kogler Production Editor Loren Johnson Business Manager Elfwyn Hendrickson Literary Editor

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Introduction And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery . . . Whitman Examine a hand, any hand. It may be large and brawny; it may be small and dainty. The size of the hand does not matter. It remains a won- drously engineered, marvelous- ly constructed mechanism. Rough and untrained, the hand can do little. But train it, guide it; it becomes the in- strument by which man ' s thoughts are translated into deeds. The result may be a simple cake, a suit of clothes, or a majestic building. Each is conceived, then molded by a skilled, trained hand. But it is not possible to divorce the hand from the rest of the body. The body is a union of coordinate parts; no part is subordinate. The count- erpart, then, to the skilled, trained hand is a keen, dis- ciplined mind, a mind which guides and directs the hand in its varied, complex movements. Throughout life, the hand pfays an important role. Whether it is used in the build- ing of a home, a community, or a nation, it is the hand which must lay the foundations of strength and raise the walls of unity. Today, when the union of men ' s minds and hands has caused oceans and continents to be spanned in hours, we realize more than ever the need for colleges like ours — institutions dedicated to the wedding of the human mind and the human hand.