The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 31, Ed. 1, Friday, May 13, 1960 Page: 4 of 8
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r One year of editing a college newspaper is like taking a
dip in the old swimming hole.
is like wading and two years of college journalistic headaches
is like drowning.
We leave the hole under the Library with a few fond
f 'recollections most notable are those of marathon Wednesday
. nights and the wordless joy of seeing students grab for a paper
on Fridays.
The sure way to tell whether a paper reached its readers
successfully was not to watch readers or weigh their comment.
""We would observe the amount of Optimi blown against the
fence around the campus school playground: the better the
paper the fewer the discards coming to rest there.
" i we pass on no woras oi great iruin 10 our successor uur
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V -OB ;. predecessor left none because he knew we'd never need to
" ' ' ';'' Vorry about paperback-book scandals. Next year there'll be
We pass on no words of
tho cancelled plays or football
Tirooks.
; V As we hereby proclaim next term The Study Year we
f thank all faculty administrators students subscribers and
- anonymous letter writers for contributing their gulfs and
bridges.
' As. it were.
qSpies Should Be Honorable
They got caught.
I Yes both the tyke with his hand in the cookie jar and
' ' the nation with its plane in the enemy territory.
'" Little boys who are taught that anything is all right if
you don't get caught grow up to run the world the same way.
i ' Sometimes those little boys become TV performers or record
Jockeys. Sometimes they become connected with intelligence
"bureaus.
All right-thinking nations are going to see that Krushchev
Is overdoing it with his Shkme on America exordia. But what
what about countries that are anxious to turn everything they
- Kear into something harmful to the U.S.? Those are the ones
: ('our diplomats are concerned about. They are the ones who
. .will blame us if the Paris summit -conference flops.
; We can act two ways: quit sending spies (intelligence
;;''! agents) or continue sending them. To quit is like tossing out
""'bullets because we have bombs. To continue we must make
t f it open obvious honorable. If spies are not honorable then t
.'" M neither are the scientists like Fred Astaire who invent deadly
;' weapons.
' ffAi After this initial spanking the U.S. will know better than
Lv" v to get caught. But as long as
t-'all right we will continue getting caught and keep on getting
'spanked.
jrSo We must either stop
1 -comment would be: let's start
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1W9 tt the pott office of Abilene. Texts under Act of Augwt 24 1912. AddreH all
commvntcetloni to The Optlmlit SttHon ACC Abilene Texet. .
HAROLD STRAUGHN
BARTHELL ROBERSON .
Frances Marbury
Rhinard Troup
Jackie Thomas
Dudley Lynch
Lana Coker
SPONSOR
ADVISORS Charlie Marler
Dennis Renner
Editorial Staff: Bob Armistead and Jerry Hayes
news; Carolyn Cunningham and Judy Swofford features;
Jimmy Parsons sports; Ann Parrish clubs.
Reportorlal Staff: Norma Bishop Carolyn Comolli Carolyn
Frazler Sharon Hay Linda Morris Melba Young Royce Cald
well Mlko Cummings Bill Franklin Barry Jackson Ray Pollard
?& .'David Purcell Bob Stewart
Away
One year on a high school paper
great truth to our successor. Our
player vs. intellectual donney-
we keep thinking that wrong is
it or make it honorable. Our
a U.S. Intelligence Acadamy.
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- Editor
Business Manager
Assistant Editor
Photographer
Club Editor
Sports Editor
Circulation Manager
Dr. Heber Taylor
Last Tuesday the Editor of this
paper and I were sitting In the
Grill. A beautiful girl walked by
In. shorts. Very shorts. All of the
right-thinking students were
scandalized.
The Editor and It tried to view
the situation objectively but with
only moderate success.
It was obvious that the girl
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world. Either that or she was a
mlghty fearless rebel of some
sort.
was a visitor from the outside
In any event It Is only fair to
add" that she was beautiful. Of
course my unfortunate near-
sightedness prevented 'me from
taking In all of the details. But
the Editor who has exceedingly
good vision in such cases assur-
red me that my impression of her
beauty was correct.
THIS EVENT started me thinkr
ing. About girls. Well it didn't
exactly start me. It just encour-
aged me. I thought therefore It
Prickly Pear Presented
TRADITIONAL presentation of
yearbook to the college was taken
care of Monday by Nancy Ligon
and Dr. John C. Stevens assist-
ant president.
Exes to Reward
Notable Service
Outstanding service will be
rewarded when a senior boy and
a senior girl are honored with
V. H. Kelley alumni scholarships.
These awards amounting to
$250 -each will be presented this
year for the third time to the
two graduating seniors who have
rendered the' most notable ser-
vice to their fellow students and
to ACC.
Nominations for this award
were screened by a meeting of
Bob Hunter director of alumni
relations Garvin Beauchump
dean of students Paul Faulkner
dean of men Mrs. W. C. Sikes
dean of women and a commit-
tee of approximately .20 students
from the freshman sophomore
and junior classes
This group made the final
recommendations for the top
three choices for each award to
the executive board of the
Alumni .association.
The' $250 is to be used at ACC
during the next 20-year period.
It may be used by the recipients
or anyone designated by them.
Be a
might be of come interest to share
share my musings on this subject
with you.
Firstly little boys hate girls
and women. Secondly little boys
usually see the truth about such
things. However little boys arc
ah inexperienced. That is
they only know of dirty scream-
ing little sisters or nagging
mothers. They In fact do not
know the gentle smile or the care-
less wink. They do not know the
soft touch of a hand or the whis-
pered word.
I have been informed of all of
these things on the best of au-
thority. OLDER BOYS in calm and col-
lected moments arc painfully
aware of the faults of girls. But
calm and collected moments grow
rarer and rarer. At length the
topic of girls no longer promotes
rational discussion but only gene-
rates dizziness and lightness of
Summer Show Work In Store
For ACCs Wilmeth Valentine
Two ACC theatre majors
Leon Valentine and Don Wil-
meth were notified Tuesday
that they have been selected to
appear in the annual summer
theatre production at the State
Historical theatre at San Jose
mission in San Antonio.
"The Cloud of Witnesses" a
historical drama of the Alamo
which Is to be directed by James
Barton of the Speech department
of Southwest Texas State college
San Marcos goes Into rehearsal
June 11.
Wilmeth and Valentine were
chosen to appear In the produc-
tion written by Texas playwright
Ramsey Yelvington after audi-
tions held by Barton in March at
the Windsor hotel.
Wilmeth a junior from Tyler
is the newly-elected president of
the Zeta Alpha chapter of Alpha
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EUGENE COUCH receives $50 scholarship from Lewia
Williams president of Abilene Geophysical society.
Couch Accepts Physics Honors
Eugene Couch senior physics
major from Dallas has accepted
a $2400 assistontship with the
University of Pittsburgh and
Monday was awarded a $50 cash
scholarship by the Abilene Geo-
logical society
Lewis Williams president of
the Abilene Geological society
presented Couch with the scholar-
ship award In chapel.
Lover or
A skeptical did tttefi
the stomach something akin (o
nausea. Scientists doubt that any
male beyond the age of 10 is
capable of making any sort of ob-
jective value judgment regarding
girls. I hold this as dogma.
Essentially this means that you
can never trust your feelings
about girls. You are left with the
nagging suspicion that your girl
may be an imbecile.
ASSOCIATING with girls
throws off your best calculations.
They team so charming; so beau-
tiful so cheerful so cute so in-
telligent so vivacious so gregar-
ious so delightful. So deceptive.
What then can we say for a
moral a lesson? What is to be
done about it all? Shall we ao
mit girls Into our fellowship or
shall we cast them off7
What does Gordon Campbell
the bitter sceptical old man say?
He says this: If possible be a
lover; If not be a bitter sceptical
old man.
Psl Omega and second-term
president of the Mclpomenean
players. He was recently chosen
best advanced director of the stu-
dent directed one-act plays.
Valentine Abilene sophomore
has been named best supporting
actor of the 1059-60 season as
well as best actor in the student
directed one-act plays.
LIBRARY BOOKS
DUE IN BY MAY 20
All library books will b dua
May 20. according to MliaCal-
lia Fay. Millikan haad li-
brarian. Howarar bcoks may be
chocked out on short loan ii
needed longar aha addad.
The assistontship to the Pcnn- .
sylvanla college was chosen by
Couch after he had considered
offers from Cornell university.
University of Colorado and
Oklahoma State.
Said Dr.i Moody Coffman head
of the Physics department "I be--lleve
Eugene Couch is the most
outstanding physics student of
all those we have had during my
experience with the college."
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The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 31, Ed. 1, Friday, May 13, 1960, newspaper, May 13, 1960; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth95976/m1/4/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.