Pryor Scrapbook Dr. Joe, 1986

--2 --The night trip back to Searcy from Kansas City when we decided not to stay over another night. You sang most of the way back -- to keep yourself awake, I suppose, but it kept the rest of us awake, too. --Your talking me into agreeing to be the editor for 1952, which wasn't really what I wanted to do, but you were very persuasive. Maybe both of us thought better of it later, but it was too late. --Working on ideas and layouts during the summer of 1951 and going down to Marietta, Ohio, to see Scooter Manasco, who was the business manager that year. --Deciding not to go with Burd and Fletcher (and Mr. Maplehead) that year since the Hurley Company in Camden, Arkansas, offered a better price and we could afford a few more pages. That wasn't one of our better decisions, was it? Mr. Maplesden had promised we'd have an All-American book if we worked with him. I wonder if we would have. --Getting back to school in the fall and finding Morgan Richardson had lost Corinne, so he decided to join the Army to forget his lost love. There went the photographer! So, I ended up becoming photographer as well as editor. I think I enjoyed being a photographer more. I wonder if that had anything to do with my ending up with Kodak. --The old Crown Graphic camera with the roll film back. We bought a new Kodak Ektar lens for it with a 1/800 second shutter -- quite revolutionary at the time -- and then had a lot of trouble with the shutter. I wonder what ever happened to that camera. We spent many hours together. --Glass flash lamps (yes, children, there was a time when electronic flash didn't exist), and how it felt if one of the lamps went off in your hand when you put it in a shorted socket. I still have the scars on my fingers. --Shooting a Kodachrome slide of the Ad Building (that's Hendrix Hall, I think, for all you youngsters) and trying to get it reproduced for the title page of the yearbook. Looking back on it now, and after working with color products at Kodak for over 30 years, I realize just how crude an attempt it was.