YEARBOOK ADVISOR’'S STATEMENT April 19 1943 Birth, marriage, death, and the production of a yearbook are all mysterious events understood or appreciated by only those who have had those experiences. When you're born, you and the neighbors wish you weren't and your parents wish you were the opposite sex — nobody's satisfied. When you're’ married, you and your in-laws wish you weren't and everyone considers it a poor match — nobody's satisfied. When you die, some think its a pity that you died so young; some have wished you'd died long ago; and you begin to fry — nobody's satisfied. When a yearbook is published, some teachers crab about the slight recognition they've been given; everybody believes his own picture is terrible and those of others are amusing, and the administration thinks the whole thing is a disgrace to the school — nobody's satisfied. : | But what no one else realizes is: that the yearbook staff members have spent many noon hours in meetings, planning the book and many other hours gathering information and writing reports; that the advisor has had a year-long headache; that the editors _ have spent scores of evenings working until eight, ten, or twelve oclock on it; that they have conscientiously attempted to produce something to please you for they too want to have the best pos- sible annual; and that mistakes, slights, and omissions are entirely unintentional human errors of their work — nor would you know, if this weren't written, that on Sunday at 1:30 A.M., when they completed the book the editors awoke the advisor from a peaceful sleep at his home to turn the copy over to him for proof reading. —F. J. WESTERGARD. 128