1964 Yearbook

1964 Yearbook

Mr. Charles A. Gemskie of the '55 OAKS advises the 1964 staff to: "Bear in mind also that you will be responsible for many hours of recalling. Do what you can to make them a pleasure. You too, will also look back occasionally through the pages of Volume XXX. If nothing else, realize the good of it as a means of appreciating the past in terms of the present. Use it to realize that if you have had joys in the past, only realization of the present will make the future worth while." Mr. Daniel J. O'Callaghan, 1957 editor, also expresses the value of yearbook work in future employment. "Little did I realize, to say the least, that my appointment to the OAKS staff would play no small part in determining my future. Up until last January I served as an associate editor of PROVISIONER PUBLICATIONS, a publisher of agricultural magazines, and, most recently, as a writer for a trade association. A yearbook is, in my opinion, a necessary part of academic life since it is a written and pictorial account of one year's activities . . . activities which might otherwise be forgotten. The two years I spent on the OAKS staff were satisfying and rewarding and are still proving that the time, work and effort involved would more than commensurate with the values that accrue. Mr. Charles H. Steilen Mr. Charles H. Steilen, at present Assistant Director of Development at Gonzaga University, was editor of the 1958 book. He wrote: "True, in the last days of each school year, students always look forward to "getting out of the place" as soon as possible. But age mellows a person quickly and memories become increasingly important. In ten, fifteen or twenty years, the OAKS will become an accurate chronicle of events too soon forgotten. A lot of people have worked long and hard to provide it for you!" Mr. Jack Miller, Salt Lake City, editor of the 1959 book, advises: "But most important is that the yearbook is yours and only yours. It will become more cherished to you as the years go by. Remember it is your future memories." Mr. William Wolfe, Milwaukee, edited the 1956 and 1960 volumes. (He was with the Armed Services during the interim.) Mr. Wolfe advances the ideas that: "In our generation, men in every field of endeavor fail or succeed on the basis of their ability to communicate effectively. Communications means putting knowledge and understanding to work. College journalism, and yearbook work in particular, is' that college activity which more than any other forces students to observe, judge and then commit themselves. However tentative those judgments may be and however immature and familiar the products of those judgments may be, the habit is developed and the faculty is exercised. In order to change and develop one's opinions, a commitment must be made in the first place. Aside from the attainment of knowledge itself, no activity in college relates more closely to the realization of social awareness and moral responsibility. In journalistic activities one cannot escape practicalization. And practicalization is something which college journalists learn about—while some of their fellow students do not." Time must pass before we have an awareness of "why" we do many things and their importance. Mr. James Broderick, editor of the 1962 OAKS writes: Mr. James Broderick "The individual accomplishments of every staff member will doubtlessly be applicable in their later lives. As one of the college's several publications, and as one of the two student publications; THE OAKS shares part of the responsibility for maintaining high student, parent and public opinion. The quality of the yearbook suggests St. Ambrose College's "personality" to the reader." These nineteen letters attest to the importance of a yearbook to each Ambrosian. It is a memory book. The preparation of it was actually a laboratory exercise in publishing. Therefore to the task of preparing a memory aid and an acceptable exercise the 1964 staff pledged its efforts. We have tried to fulfill the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Flana- ga's prophecy, "We editors, then, were planting the acorns which today have produced THE OAKS." To all these pioneer men who have contributed to publishing the first twenty-nine volumes, we, the 1964 OAKS Staff gratefully dedicate Volume XXX. 13

State Library of Iowa

1964

St. Ambrose University, 518 W. Locust St., Davenport, IA 52803

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