Tennessee Wesleyan College - Nocatula Yearbook (Athens, TN)

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' m M II II II I ' II Resume o£ the Year ' s Doings According to the Nocatula, the school year 1937-38 has been filled with interesting activities. hHere are the headlines: First Edition: Enrollment larger than last year ' s. . . .seniors arrive, talking over events of summer and preparing to give juniors a going-over. . . .excellent football team predicted. . . Second: Bulldogs drop hard game to King at Bristol, 19-14. . . .Lick South Georgia in first home stand, 33-0. . . . Nocatula staff announced. . . .Blessed with substantial Carnegie Grant, the library begins to blossom out with new books. . . .Irene Bewley gives mountain skits in first lyceum. . . Homecoming: Sewanee routs Bulldogs, 25-0; St. Bernard falls, 65-6; hliwassee bows again, 19-0, Bulldogs come back to lick Bluefield, 19-7. . . .music and drama departments combine efforts in comic operetta, Moon Maiden ' . . .group sees films of Europe trip of R. B. Gilbert. . . .alumni welcomed back, and teas and parties given for them. . . .a memorable game with Milligan and a 20-20 tie. . . Number Four: Dr. C. F. Sitterly, Drew Theological Seminary, gives series of lectures on Appreciating the Bible . - G Man, W. H. Lester, packs auditorium with his talk on crime. . . . Football team wins South- eastern Grid Title for sixth time by licking South Georgia, 38-6, and lays claim to National Championship. . . . Ruth FHargraves is delegate to Methodist Student Conference, St. Louis. . . . Dust of the Road presented by the Tewesco Players. . . .Debaters discuss compulsory arbitration question. . . .Rush Week, and keen competi- tion for pledges. . . .then initiations. . . Christmas Edition: Paper is dressed up in green. . . .Dean ' s honor roll has only IB names. . . .library gets new charging desk. . . .Chorus sings at Chattanooga Area Meeting. . . .Mrs. Annie M. Pfeiffer, genreous benefactor of College, wins student body in visit to campus. . . .students write letter to Santa. . . .Random Opinion finds that girls notice personal appearance first when they meet new boys, and that males strongly dislike bright nail polish. . . .Wesleyan begins basketball season with win over Englewood. . . .Bobby Baker is named captain of 1938 football team. . . Student President Douglas Simpson 24 1 9 3

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Petty-Manker Hall for Men Bennett Hall for Women

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.•■ .••I ' ■«4 1 Number Six: Nocatula editor and business mandger return from press meeting at Murfreesboro full of ideas . . Tewesco Players start work on Double Door . . . .Petty-Manker act wins in Stunt Nigfit. . . Campus Indifference editorial causes some comments. . . Old Collese Edition: Campaign gets under way to raise funds for refiabilitating Old College. . . .students con- tribute. . . .alumni recall days of yore. . . .daugfiter of first college president visits. . . .W. D. Wilkinson, Conference Evangelist, fiolds week of successful religious meetings . . .Sizer Debate, postponed to March 8, won by Floyd Watkins and Fred Coker. . . .Jerold Frederic performs. . . .Basketball team starts winning streak. . . .Pfii Theta Kappa takes in new members. . . .Sixty-five attend Sigma Cfii alumnae banquet. . . .Ritter has party for Off-Campus girls. . . .Hits have banquet. . . April Fool Edition: Shoaf is named to run institution (into ground) . . . .Etowah wins second annual play tourney of Tewesco Players with The Wedding . . . .Group enacts Nocatula legend at Berea Folk Festival. . . . Actors register with Double Door . . . .F eyward Davis edits Junior Edition of the paper. . . .Softball replaces basketball in interests. . . . Spring football practice ends successfully after three weeks of work. . . .Sammye Jean Arrants and John L. hienderson are Queen and King of Carnival. . . .Little Philharmonic Symphony entertains. . . . Mrs. Robb and Miss Moffitt present students in a recital. . . .Nocatula paper publishes new platform. , .Grades on Campusology released. . . .Singers go out on Educational Sunday trips. . . .Debaters go to Lees-McRae and Union Colleges for tournaments. . . .Evins re-elected Southeastern Phi Rho Pi President. . . .Phi Rho Pi tourney will be held here in 1939. . . Junior Edition: Lambert will captain basketball team. . . .Patton chosen to lean girls sextet. . . .Banquets in profusion. . . .Sigma Tau, Pi Nu, then Pan Hellenic and Junior-Senior and Phi Pi. . . .Not to mention Phi Theta. . . . the annual is ready for press.. .May Day crowns Hollingsworth and Jerrene Chambers . .Student election, with hot air and all sorts of crazy notions and ballyhoo. . . . spring teachers ' enter school and are welcomed. . . winners in Who ' s Who announced. . . Speakers chosen. . . .senior play is Lady of Letters . . . . Moses named student president, Lawson, vice-president, and Watts, editor, for 1938-39. . . Baccalaureate, class day, and then graduation. . .plenty of tears shed as nearly 70 seniors prepare to leave. Wesleyans a grand old place after all! Vice-President Margaret Ann Lackey Nocatula 25