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Remembrances of 1912-13-14 XMAGINE my feelings when I found that I had been elected Class Historian! The bigness of the task almost drove me frantic, but I put on a bold front and just listened while my classmates talked. This is what I heard : Do you remember getting classified that first year? The horrors we went through having our voices tested makes me shudder now. Then, add to that writing letters to Miss Dadmun, telling her all about ourselves and how much we knew! All that ' s bad enough, said another voice, and it makes me want to drink of the waters of f orgetfulness ; but you all know it doesn ' t compare with those indescribablj homesick times when we used to sit on the hill-side and cry. Nannie Waller was about the only one who was always cheerful. It was evidently too much for Sarah Temple Segar, for she had to go home, and came back next vear to be a member of the class of ' 14 instead of ' 13, which was fortunate for us. I can ' t see anything funny in that. Pray tell us what you are giggling about. Oh, I was j ust thinking of how queer Russell Hall looked that first fall, with one-half of the building boarded up, and the auditorium, gym, post-office and library unknown quantities. I can just see Miss Dadmun and Mr. Hamlet trying to pour the principles of English and Chemistry into our heads against the noise of the gravel grinder and the carpenter ' s hammer. Then the exciting times we had choosing the school colors, and after they had been selected, taking Orange and Brown for our own Class Colors. That reminds me of the election of our first officers — Mary Snead, President; Mary W. Johnson, Vice-Presi- dent; Louise Lewis, Secretary and Susie I ewis, Treasurer; and our Honorary Members, Dr. Humphreys and Miss Hinman. One hitherto silent member suddenly jiimped up. with a glowing countenance, and on being asked of what she was thinking, said; Why, of our athletic glories! With thrills of excitement we all thought of that first Field Day, of the beautiful Trophy Cup, and of how we had worked to get the thirty-five dollars to buy it. The stillness 27
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was broken with Can we ever forget how Nelhe Purks saved the day with her running and jumping, and how Louise Lewis won the potato race in her most businesslike manner? Why, we won all the contests except the broad jump. Since Martha Fleet ' s great achievement that day in the sack-race she has retired from athletics forever. So much for athletics, said the member who loves a good time; I am thinking of that Valentine Party Dr. Humphreys and Miss Hinman gave us, when the famous lovers. Jack and Jill, Cinderella and the Prince, Mark Antony and Cleopatra, and many others, came. Those were good times! Yes, I remember Ruth Clarkson was Pocahontas. She acted the part so well that she acquired some of the traits of Indian character — she ' s never been in a hurry nor excited since. Wasn ' t that first summer at home short? Before we hardly knew it, we were back again, real Juniors, and electing new officers — Junia Graves, President; Sue Walker, Vice-President; Nell Ford, Secretary; and Myrtis Tankard, Treasurer. Only the absence of Dr. Humphreys marred our happiness, but Psychology, Theory of Educa- tion, Methods in everything, and trying to ' make the big points stand out ' kept us bus -. Then Flora Hill came. Weren ' t we amazed to find that she was a Junior ' We were some Class that year with Myrtis, Sallye, Ella Gamett and Mar} ' Warner on the basketball team, and Louise Lewis, Mary Warner and Myrtis elected to the staff of The Battlefield ! No wonder we felt biggity ! Yes, especially after that hair-raising entertainment we gave the Seniors! We certainly showed them the underworld! Wasn ' t it comical to see Ethel Nash, the smallest member of our Class, as Atlas, carrying the world on her shoulders? For giving a class the big head, however, that was nothing to the second Field Day. It was worth getting hoarse to find that Sallye Roberts and Lucy Gray Richardson were experts in a three-legged race, that Helen Phillips was the greatest ball-thrower in the State, and that Kathleen Scott was the best high jumper. I never shall forget how we used to yell at Alice, ' Get that ball, Bud Finney; ' and she usually got it, too. Then, Seniors at last! What a sophisticated, blase air we put on at first, but the training school soon humbled us. Say, Historian, don ' t forget to put down our last officers : Sue Walker, President ; Nannie Oliver, Vice-President ; Mae Perrin, Secretary, and Beatrice Ashley, Treasurer. Nor The Battlefield staff with Graham Mastin as editor- in-chief, and Jean Graves Assistant-Editor. Such a medley of suggestions as I now heard! I managed with much difficulty to take down a few which might be of interest. I heard that the faculty had at last gotten Mary and Maxie Acree straight, and that they have stopped signing themselves ' M. Acree. '
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