Baylor University - Round Up Yearbook (Waco, TX)

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g S Q . . . Q Pa gg ' I NE of the highlights of 1936-37 at Baylor was the convocation Nov. 21, when the oldest institution of higher learning in Texas conferred honorary degrees upon Yice-President and Mrs. john Nance Garner, marking the last major Texas Centennial celebration. Cpper left and center, Mr. and Mrs. Garner are greeted at the Circle highway junction lay a delegation headed hy President Pat Neff and a motorcycle escort. Right. guests and host walk lvetween the walls of cheering students to Memorial dormitory, where the visitors were entertained on the eve of the exercises, Next morning, arrayed in caps and gowns, two of the central figures stand at attention as the Golden Wave hand plays the national anthem before the proces- sional. Center, a shot of the marching notables, with Dr. A. Armstrong and Dean E. N. jones passing. Garner, smiling and laughing, exits with diploma. Grouped on the portico of Memorial, the official party gives the cameramen their last chance at convocation scenes. Left to right are Senator Tom Connally, Mrs. Garner, Mr. Garner, XYalter XYoodul, Mr. Neff, Former Governor Miriam E. Ferguson, Genevieve Garner, the Yice-President's granddaughter, Governor james Y. Allred, and Cullen F. Thomas. 5 'ff xiwmmiskmxs .JN - ,N Vi', V 3 WI? + ss V- 1 l, NE vga, il,-4 g , ll 9. 51 -'-- X ' ' ti 1 K. Zs- J, i- . 13 -Q gh Y I 'M r v ' . ' ' sf . i f rr f fu 1, il T M 5' . ii, :. i-gn: , -,m,,1,,,,m -,,,.,,,. ,

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Www- -pm. 2396 Q., 155835 X3 l , wo freshman coeds who blazed a comet trail into campus prominence last fall: Frances jim Swan and Dorothy Perkins engrossed in conversation. Two first Americans: Oscar Pete and Dan Tilden. Looking down on Slime Trippet whose Companion for the moment is Band Sweetheart Mary Yan Jones. Josephine jenkins Randolph-Macon Marchman shows Ramsey Yelvington what the book says about it. A couple from the Slime Parade. Two initiates into the Chamber of Com- merce: Smith Tarrant and joe Loving. A striking picture of Helen Seaman, dazzling slime blonde, on just one of those wet january days. Bill Maddox waves. On Minglewood bowl Jeannette Burress and hlarium Hood decorate a Little Theatre set. Margaret Fain and Geology Professor E. M. Thorp about face for the cameraman. Homer Eng, Akira Chiba, and Philip Moy lend an Qriental touch to a Texas campus, in their native garbs. Uihat? More rain? Ask us how long it lasted? Cleo DuBose, Mary Elizabeth Vililliains, and Dorothy Florey laugh it off 'neath umbrellas. Nell Curley can't stop to pose, so we shoot her on the Hy. Martha Lou Bolinger gives us a personality smile. Page 19

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EMARKABLE team: Mitchell l3alcly Parks, Mary lilizalicth XYilliams, Vlarcnce l3uhha Gernancl, swinging clown the walk . . . That smile liuilfling on Kathleen Corman's lace is her normal expression. Frank lintlcr rlucks his curly head as he follows Eclith Smith clown Science steps . . . Nlary lioycl, popular heauty, uncler her hnmhershoot . . , hack to the lclt, Foster Froggy Ycll Chief Coleman gives the puhlic a serious frown . . . Hoyt ,Xnclres ncxt with llr. l.. L. Smith in the far-hack . . . a small section ol' the traffic jam on Science steps . . . Toula famille Doll Thompson appears startlccl . . . R. l'. Henry gets aclyice from his canfliclatc in personality race, lirnestine Ryan . . , Three inosquitoes . . . Holy -loe Ferguson, H. Clayton Bryson, joe Rolwinson llarthcst from camerab. Merton Bowling strolls hy . . . jack llahmer caught in prolilc: those high school exes were snapped hefore Varsity B chili cut their letters orfg they arc, l to rv Gus Classcock, joe Jamieson, and Rohert .lugheacl Ballenger , . . another up-shot on the traffic jam, unposecl . . . Ed 'll,anclon Martin in his neophyte warpaint, with Harrell Townsend looking as though he knew he was lic-ing lollowccl. 4 liYfi 1 1 - r Nx imma! D- I' I lT -'f'vxwW',Z .. :'w v Swwrif-41