Tennessee Wesleyan College - Nocatula Yearbook (Athens, TN)

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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF ' 29 It was spring and all the world was happy. The event called for just such a seascn as Spring. The class of ' 29 at old Wesleyan was making its final preparations to say adieu to the shaded walks, and whispering trees, and the soon- to- be-silent halls deprived of their laughter and the busy hum of students at work. Old Wesleyan had guarded the class ot ' 29 well; some had entered her portals as tiny acorns and grown to be mighty oaks that could stand the hardest win- ters and severest storms of life. But now in the Spring of ' 29 the time has come when friends must part, some to meet again, some maybe never to meet again. The last one has gone and as I stand on the bottom step in the archway, where I have so many tinv-s stood and watched the Seniors as they passed in and out the campus, I think of what the future holds for my comrade. ' ;; but breaking my reverie I myself take the last step and am no longer a student of Tennessee Wesleyan. Tempus fugit. A thousand years have elapsed and I, a dis- embodied apparition, cannot rest till I have found a history which seems to have been lost. It is the history of the class of ' 29. After a search over the mass of ruins of what was once the buildings of the college I was about to give up in vain; yet something caused me to search on. Day after day I toiled on in what seemed to me an endless search. The spirit of Professor Fisher was laughing sarcastically at my end- less search for this bit of truth and I was growing weary; my spirit was bent and heavily burdened, but I stumbled on in hope — over the huge stones and masses of bricks and steel. Book after book I found do, here was Tom Cash ' s long lost Economics which nearly drove him mad way back in the Spring of ' 29 ' and here was Miss Johnson ' s cracked stove with a bale of hay wire merrily defying the efforts of time to render this warm-hearted friend of the students apart. And here is a record of love ' s coming to life after a winter of hiber- nation. It was a balmy Spring, that March of ' 29. Vally should have been more careful. Kemp told her to burn his notes. I thought perhaps that this valuable docu- ment might have been stolen by Mrs. Hammontree and that she had tucked it away in her laboratory. But the day was over and my spirit returned ten minutes late for the first period class the next morning.refreshed for a hard day ' s search. As the sun was casting its oblique beams on my weary back I had nearly given up hope. All day I had been searching amidst bones of innumerable dissected frogs, when I came to a mass of unclassified bones, fish, frogs, grasshop- pers, snakes and other denizens of the biology laboratory. This was my last search. I scattered bones helter skelter and there was the precious history, the last issue of the Nocatula, and now my spirit could rest in quiet contemplation of this valuable record. The eld North State has contributed its part of the stalwart sons of this class. When I read the names of Howard Den- nis. Tom Cash and J. Walden Tysinger, a picture came to me MISS JESSIE JOHNSON Class Sponsor of Howard Dennis whispering chapel announcement in lieu of Dean Miller; Tom Cash with a pencil and paper in his hand at the basketball games, and Tysinger preaching hell out of his congregation of sinners. Lo, here is a lone son of Pennsylvania! Roxy dragging his heavy heels up to Miss Moffitt ' s piano to frighten out of it one of the immortal compositions of his beloved Chopin. The old Dominion state contributed to the class roll, dig- nified and studious May Long, who helped Mrs. Stone keep her sheep in the fold. Yes, and how in the world did Howard Guthrie get way up here from Florida? But that ' s just another of Nature ' s phenomena. Howard and his cornet are always blowing around. Ha. bright eyes from Alabama flash at me. Shades of Bir- mingham envelop me and I grow dizzy in the memory there- of. I see Bill as if yesterday, and such a lot of feminine loveliness in one personality is hardly believable. Windswept Kansas also contributed, and we find the ever mischievous Paul Terry here before us in black and white. Yes, he was playing the villain in - ' A Corner of the Campus . And if I re- member rightly he was playing the he- ro in another corner of the Campus. We think that this little paly will prob- ably end in a fade out at Cullman, Ala., with Gladys Parker. Tennessee as characteristic has vol- unteered many of her sons and daugh- ters. Here is Chatter Laws on the fla? head of the issue. Well. I remember Chatter and her full lipped smile. She could write, talk and was she mischiev- ous? — here, Mrs. Cummings, you take the witness stand. Townley, what can we say about him Let us quote his lugubrious roommate. Doc : Johnson has more ideas than anybody I have ever seen. One weeK he plays the sax and the next the clari- net. His versatility included more than dabbling in music. Classes, music, plays, literary societies, debating, and Chatter were all in the day ' s work for him. And Doc Phillips, his roommate, always found amidst bottles labeled poison, and always doctoring somebody for something they didn ' t have. Fred Whitehead and his roommate, Frank Sexton, cannot escape the searching eye of the historian. Fred ' s abil-ty as an athlete was only topped by his ability as a student. As a lover we refer you to Jim Lee for he does not love before crowds as he plays. Frank, known as Crip , was noted for his intricate discussions in Economics and his attention to Doctor Brock ' s daughter. The Jenkins ' s Sweeney and his uncle, Hicks, also roomies. Hicks felt like he owned the place by right of the Homestead Laws; if he had just stayed another year Dean would have given him the deed. Sweeney was the boy who was a mem- ber of everything. Literary society member, chemistry stu- dent, cum laude. hash slinger at Mack ' s and one of these mysterious Pi Phi Pi ' s who never met before 11 o ' clock. (Continued on Page 25)

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NOCATULA EDITORIAL STAFF Editor in Chief w. D. Johnston Literary Editor Chelsea Laws Sports Editor Tom Cash Assistant Sports Editor .Dimples Kirklr.nd Alumni Editor Johnson Townley Religious Editor J. p. Wyatt Faculty Editor M ' .ss Gladys Dejournette Joke Editor George Hanna Staff Artist Mouzon Psters BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager W. D. Johnston Circulation Manager Thomas Phillips GENERAL STAFF Martha Johnson, Kenneth Magee, Mary Noel, Creston Barker, Valeria Ogle, and Annabelle Skillern

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STUDENT COUNCIL Johnson Townley President Cladys Parker Vice-President Chelsea Laws Secretary W . D. Johnston Treasurer MEMBERS Jessie Kelly Beulah Clayton Paul Terry J. P. Wyatt rmily Johnson Sue Beth Dennis Manson Green Charles Dye Leila Winecoft Myrtle Patterson J. Walden Tysinger