It began as a kind of newspaper with a social column and a miscellaneous column handwritten in a notebook, and illustrated with crude cartoons. It was concocted to relieve boredom of rainy, tent-bound days in the field.

Frontispiece, 1922 Outcrop - a watercolor by R. Walker

Katharine Fowler-Billings (named a Distinguished Alumna by the Alumni Board in 1999) as graduate student, Katharine Fowler, in the 1926 Outcrop.

Lowell Laudon, in the 1957 Outcrop.

Gene Cameron, 1957.

Original Outcrops are kept in the University archives.