Lipscomb University - Backlog Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Senior Class Prophecy This was the first time I had been back in the dear old State in ten years. As I was going down the Midway, I noticed a little booth which had “Palmist, Psy- chologist, and Phrenologist” written on the outside in very gaudy colors. In front of this little tent stood a Hindu, dressed in his native costume, who insisted that I come in and have my fortune told. After a little hesitation, I went in merely to sat- isfy my curiosity. As the custom is, the Hindu started with my past. He reminded me that on this very day ten years ago I had come to the fair with the D. L. C. bunch. This brought back sweet memories of my Alma Mater and school chums, and so I asked the Hindu to tell me what had become of my classmates rather than talk of myself, and this is what he told me: Earle Pullias, our honorable President, is now a prosperous lawyer in New York; and although we thought he was a woman hater back in D. L. C., he is now happily -married to one of Ziegfield’s chorus girls. Lillie Mae Brown and Clayton James are co-editors of the New York Times, and they are putting out just as good a paper as they did our Annual. Sarah McGill, after many years of study and hard work, has received the degree that she has so faithfully striven for—her Mrs. We all thought Gwendolyn Moss would marry and settle down, but not so. She says “single blessedness” is far better than the rough sea of matrimony. John R. Hovious, a preacher of no mean ability, has gone to Africa as a missionary. I always knew that Fee Thomas would make a great man. He is now one of the world’s most distinguished surgeons. He has discovered the cure for itch and warts. Franklin Thomas and John L. Sweat are with Ringling Brothers Circus. They have an act all to themselves, in which John L. is the monkey and Franklin the organ grinder. Martha Owen has her time well occupied supervising the cooking of cabbage, since she is the wife of the new President of David Lipscomb College—Mr. Leo L. Boles. Nannie Dunn Jones couldn’t bear to be separated from Martha; so she is Matron at the Girls’ Dormitory. She and the new Mrs. Boles spend a great deal of their time gossiping about the girls. Louise McAbee, Leona Stubblefield, and Erline Harville are running a beauty parlor in Nashville. Their main feature is mending crooked noses, big mouths, and cross eyes. Lorena Barber couldn’t decide whether she would rather be the wife of a high-school principal or tour the country with a quartet; so she is pining her life away in the “Home for the Aged and Decrepit.” Anne Beasley has turned professional basket-ball player. She makes ten thousand dollars a season, which she spends for peanut butter and crackers. Margaret Carter is head of the Home Economics Department at D. L. C., and she still quotes “H. J.” from morning until night. Walter Campbell had so many field s open to him in his athletic and oratorical ability that it was hard for him to decide; but circumstances directed him to a business career, in which he is vice president of the Life and Casualty Insurance Company. Hazel Burch has a private dancing school in Chicago, in which the “Charleston” is taught to young and old, graceful and awkward alike. David Riggs is a walking advertisement of “Sta-Comb.” A reward of one thousand dollars has been offered to the one who finds one of his hairs misplaced. Bertie De Priest, the girl that got her engagement ring soon after Christmas, just couldn’t wait until school was out; so she eloped on the night that we had our Com- mencement sermon. Merwin Gleaves is now with the big league, playing baseball. He put into practice all the “hints” on baseball that Brother Ijams gave us in Psychology, and has broken Babe Ruth’s batting record. Jewel Edmondson and Lucy Owen are teaching in the same high school. Jewel is teaching Latin, while Lucy has the voice work. Robert Fox, since he has “become of age,” has finished his physical development, and is the tallest man in the world. Olt being the 21st day of September, I went to the State Fair of Tennessee again. Twenty-one

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Ellis Walker has advanced in knowledge and favor with men as the years have gone by, and, because of his splendid qualifications, is Sergeant-at-Arms in the White House. Venson Dixon, his bosom friend, is his assistant. The latest out in the way of books is one of songs and poetry, composed by Ethel Hardison and Bernice Burton. Clyde Brittain has realized his ambition, since he is head of the Commercial Depart- ment at the University of Tennessee. Mrs. Spivey (née Sallie Will Watson) is touring Europe with her husband, Vernon Spivey, the great singer. Jesse Beck is superintendent of the Nashville schools. He is using all those good ideas he had back in Education class. Homer McKelvey and Gladys Bryson (his wife) have a tuberculosis hospital up in the mountains of Tennessee, and it is reported that they are doing much good. David Abernathy was so impressed with the importance of Mathematics that he is spending his life trying to make people understand that it is the most important sub- ject in the curriculum. Houston Karnes missed his rides on the car out to D. L. C. so much that he got a job as street-car conductor on the Glendale car line. Curtis Walker is motorman on the same Car. Harvey Dodd has been experimenting, and found that bananas can be grown very profitably in Middle Tennessee. Inez Kinnie is traveling for her health. She is so delicate the doctor said he thought the change would do her good. Naomi Murphy is president of the League of Women Voters, and is making very elo- quent speeches for woman suffrage. Alice Barber has discovered a new chemical for blondining her hair. She has made a fortune from this discovery, since all the ladies realize that the men “fall”? for the blondes. Leslie G. Thomas is business manager of the Muscle Shoals Project. They say he got his first expexience from being business manager of the BACKLOG. At this point the Hindu told me that this was all of my classmates, and if he told me anything about myself I would have to pay him another dollar. Since I was “finan- cially embarrassed,” I quietly made my exit to look for amusement elsewhere. JIMMIE RUTH HARRELL. Twenty-two