Birmingham Southern College - Southern Accent Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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w D d i c a The 1939 La Revue To the pappies, the poppas, the dads, the old mans, and, pos- sibly, the fathers, that untiring, unflinching, and generous group who have little to do in life except sit around and wait for the first or the fifteenth to roll around, this, the La Revue for the year 1939, is dedicated. To all the pappies we would extend congratulations for having survived another year with a kid in col- lege, for if it is true that a young man or young woman is changed by his or her years in college, it is equally true that a parent changes during those same years. Not only does he change his hard cash for a little white receipt rubber-stamped by the bursar ' s office, but he changes his opinion, his attitude, with regard to his kid. Our little Charlie has his pappy, Ebenezer Barnstone, but just Pappy to our Charlie. Pappy has spent many many days staring out at the horizon, wondering what his Charlie has been doing off at college. We hope that the days on the ' Southern campus haven ' t changed Charlie too much. Anyway, if they have, we ' re pretty sure there ' ll always be a Pappy who can jerk him down a notch or two.

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c. IHARLIE has been orientated and now knows that there is a school constitution, that there is an honor system, that he is on the road to becoming a cukured Christian gentle- man, and that the weight of the world will fall upon his broad, sun- tanned shoulders as soon as he graduates. But that is a long way off. Charlie wants to make the Barnstones proud of him, so he buys the nec- essary books and looks through them — but there is a disturbing element on the campus. Charlie is becoming aware of the fact that there are girls galore as ' Southern. And what girls! They look so sporty and pretty that poor Charlie can ' t keep his mind on anything — except them. He watches them as they cross the campus; he watches them while he is in his classrooms; he watches them. At the bookstore Charlie learns the technique of sitting around, waiting for mail, eating ice-cream sand- wiches, and rushing into the cafeteria for meals. The campus attracts Charlie. It ' s lovely, but wasted. There an ' t even a ten foot hunk of it planted in corn!