Pryor Scrapbook Clippings, 1945-2000

D,:.Josef?hE. Pryor, yearbook sponsor (left), displays the Medalist Certificate awarded to the 1980 Petit Jean by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. Charles Murphy, editor, holds a copy of the award-winning book. · Retit Jean:is All-American Fo1: .. 21st COnse.cutive -Year The 1980 Petit Jean has been rated All-American, according to Dr. Joseph Pryor, yearbook adviser. The ublication received marks of :.distinction in all five judging categories, · i.ucluding photography, copy, display, coverage and concept. ~ •· 1 Of all college and university year– ,, ooks judged by the Associate '" Collegiate Press, three percent are named All-American. The Petit Jean has received the top ·rating for 21 ""lnsecutive years. In. judging by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, the Petit · Jean received 960 of the possible 1000 · points, ranking in the first place division. The book was among the top ten percent in the College-University Printed Yearbook classification, receiving the "medalist" certificate. by Lori Barron The Petit · Jean, will be dedicated in chapel Monday morning to a faculty member chmen earlier by the senior class. 'lbe dedicatee, however, will be kept a secret until that time. Susan Pryor, editor, insists on keeping the secrecy as one of the traditions associated with the yearbook. Certain things have always been a surprise to the students when they receive the bodt, and Pryor said she would like to keep it that way: · Among the secrets waiting to be discovered in the 400 pages of the Petit Jean are the theme of 1 the book, the winner ~ the A reviewing judge for the CSPA said, , ·· "The Petit Jean maintains its tradition as an outstanding example of yearbook journalism. It is a book which students should be extremely pr-oud to own." The 448-page volume was edited by Charles Murphy of Searcy. The dark green cover bore ivory print and an embossed oµtline of Petit Jean Mountain. The theme of the publication, the first Harding University yearbook, was "Looking Back on a New ~eginning." The 1981 Petit Jean is n~w in the making, under editor Melanie Mc– Millen ofMonroe, La., who received the B.A. degree in applied psychology in December. Assistant editor is Susan t Pryor, a junior journalism major from Searcy. Miss Pryor has been selected to ecUUhe ~ 982 publication: Regina Spirit award,- ·and which of three fmalists, Nancy Cole, Wendy McDonough, or Susan Parkey, will be crowned the new Petit Jean queen. Along with the tradition of secrecy, Pryor said the staff has - worked hard to keep the tradition m quality in the Petit Jean, which bas received an All-American rating for 22 consecutive years. "We really wanted to strive for top quality," Pryor said. "We have a big reputation to uphold." Pryor also stressed the responsibility of the staff to create a book not only 'of All– American guality, but also of Olristian quality. In the planning stages m the Petit Jean, Pryor said, the staff made one of their goals to produce a book that Jesus would produce. "We may not have always met up to the standards, but we _tried," she • said. Pryor ~ts the continued quality ex the Petit Jean to the leadershil) of her father, Orr.Joe Pryor, sponsor for the P.etit Jean, and also to a hard-working, • experienced staff. Most of the section editors, Pryor said, were with the yearbo<K staff last year and learned from the mistakes made then how to make a better book this year. · . •The experience .of Ute staff also helped make production of the book go smoother . ~n usual. "We met more deadbnes than · anybody ever has before," said Pryor. The whole yea~ was finished on time this year, elµninating the problems <>! ~ possibility ·of the books amving in the summer, as bas l_lappened iri the past. . . 'lbe yearbooks will be passed wt Monday by members of TNT social club beginning •tt 3 p.m. in the BeDIOll Audlt9rium.