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...University of Washington he studied law, played second base for a team that won three regional championships and toured Japan. After graduation he opened a law practice and met a Pittsburgh girl named Evelyn Baker, who, while visiting in Seattle, had spotted his picture in the university yearbook and remarked, "Look at that beautiful smile." One of Art's Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity brothers arranged a blind date. Result (three years later): matrimony...
...called him "Seaweed." Yoshio Osawa pinned the nickname on himself, because whenever he was asked about the exotic tidbits he was often seen munching, he invariably made a kelpish response (actually the goodies were tiny ricecakes sent from Japan by his mother). Gregarious Seaweed won mentions in the senior-yearbook voting for the lad having the Biggest Drag with Faculty and being the Most Frequent Weekender, ran third in the Finest Legs category. After graduating, Osawa went back to his homeland, prospered as a businessman, headed a movie company during World War II. He thrice topped all his classmates...
...section on publications, the yearbook editors advise themselves, "Try something new in the Yearbook this year. Put some personality into the houses." It is both disappointing and ironic, then, that 320 leaves personality, which is already in the houses, out of their articles about them. The house articles are all too short, having suffered most from the Yearbook's general reduction in size. Approximately one-fourth their regular length, the house descriptions cannot adequately discuss personality, or even stereotypes. Adams, the freshman's "first choice than any other house" (sic) is described tritely and dully; Dunster's "party house" stereotype...
...unfortunate that the Yearbook is not able to attract better and more careful writers. Still, 320 is probably a good buy, for it is said that age dims perception. Members of the Class of '56 someday may be able to look back on the excellent pictures and youthful remembrances and feel more nostalgic than critical...
...Yearbook has not announced a new method to photograph freshmen...