West Virginia Wesleyan College - Murmurmontis Yearbook (Buckhannon, WV)

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Wilford L. McCutcheon, Reedy, W. Va. Graduated from Marshall College State Nor- mal School, ' 03; Vice-President Chrestomathean Society, Fall Term, 1 I ; President, Winter Term, ' 13; Vice-President Sophomore Class; Treasurer Junior Class; Treasurer Oratorical Association, ' I2- 13; Secretary Y. M. C. A., ' 12; Vice-President, 1 3 ; Business Manager Murmurmontis, ' 12- ' 13; Manager Lecture Class, ' 13-14. How fortunate the class of 1914 really is to have one who takes life so very seriously. He has always been a conscientious student and the push and vim and earnestness with which he under- takes his tasks has never failed to receive the silent commendation of his fellow students. He is one of the pillars of the Chrestomathean So- ciety, and has served the same in almost every capacity, from Marshal to President. He pos- sesses that excellent faculty of clear articulation, which makes what he says sound like the only true thing ever uttered; has a variegated vocab- ulary of jaw-breaking words, and very freq uently a glossary is required to get the full meaning of his statements. He is a profound thinker, a logical reasoner, and has the dreamy, sentimental temperament of a poetical genius. Readino maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Ethel M. Snodgrass, Buckhannon, W. Va. Academy, ' 10; Associate Editor Pharos, 10- I 1 ; Treasurer Freshman Class, 11; Secretary Sophomore Class, 12; Vice-President Junior Class, 13; Associate Editor Murmurmontis, ' 10- 11; Associate Editor Murmurmontis. 12- I3; Excelsior. Since the first year this class was organized, Ethel has served our noble five hundred ' — minus four hundred and ninety-two, very faith- fully in some capacity or other. She is one of our least offending members, a good student, and maintains a uniform standard of excellence with apparent ease. As one of our main standbys when class meetings are to be held, she can be depended upon never to shirk any task which the Juniors may impose upon her good nature. She is a bright and shining star in Greek and Latin, or anything else which the faculty may hand out to her. Being exceedingly modest and quiet, she never participates with the chronic gossipers in the study room between periods, but is always found pouring over her books and evidently deep in thought, stocking her already fertile brain with useful knowledge. For pastime and amuse- ment, she wields the schoolmarm ' s rod over the young hopefuls at the Model School, but Ethel expects at some time or other to be mistress of a Hall all her own. Thou who hast the fatal gift of beauty. ' 27

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Ronald Farrow Moist, Charleston, W. Va. Pi Kappa Epsilon; Charleston High; Presi- dent of the Junior Class; Editor-in-Chief Mur- murmontis, ' 12-13; President Chrestomathean Literary Society, Fall Term, ' 12; President Glee Club ' 12- ' 13; Vice-President Athletic Asso- ciation, 11- ' I2; Director Athletic Association, 12- ' 13; Assistant Editor-in-Chief Pharos, ' 12- ' 13; Wesleyan Debating Club ; Treasurer Y. M. C. A. Students ' Summer Conference Fund, 12- ' 13; Chapel Choir. Behold our Editor! You can find him almost anywhere, for he is ' in on all that is going on, and you may know him by his omnipresent smile. He takes great pleasure in exhibiting his handsome features before the public, and while making announcements in chapel has riveted the attention of more than one fair female. He is a lawyer, in embryo, and we firmly believe that he will wake up some morning to find him- self famous. Moislie knows a great many things, but how the facts came into his possession is hard to tell. He has more business than a book agent, and it is reported that he keeps late hours, yet he never seems to be worse for weai. Besides being interested in basket and baseball, he is a pronouncd ladies ' man, ' and we have heard it hinted that he may some day Marianna. He has made himself indispensable at The Hall, and since his triumphal entry, no affair, espe- cially Thanksgiving dinners, can be complete without him. He is blest with the gift of gab, and as President of the Junior Class, he main- tains that there ' s some class to our class as a class. None but himself can be his parallel. Gladys Mayfield, Buckhannon, W. Va. Delta Kappa; Tyler County High School; Goucher College, 10- ' 12; Chapel Choir; Y. W. C. A.; Secretary Junior Class; Associate Editor Murmurmontis, 12- ' I3. We have one thing for which to thank Goucher College, and that is for sending us Gladys May- field. She is blessed with a goodly mixture of dignity, humor, good nature and jollity, and has made many lasting friendships (even with the Faculty ), and is well known to the student body as she is a member of the College Choir. She is very talkative and wherever seen seems to be always happy and entirely satisfied with life. Her temper on all occasions is extremely equable. Gladys, a brilliant young genius, accom- plished in many lines, is an enthusiastic worker, affable and obliging in. her dealings with others, energetic, persevering, never tiring, and always at her corner of duty. You will be convinced that all we have said, and much more, is true of her when you behold the faultless way in which she has arranged the Literary Department of our Annual. Thy voice is a celestial melody.

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Ralph Lenkard Williams, Mounds. ille, W. Va. Delta Phi Sigma; Moundsville High School, 1 0; Chreslomathean ; Vice-President French Club; Associale Editor Murmurmontis, ' I2-M3. This round-faced, rosy-cheeked young man comes from the city of Moundsville (not the Institution) . Some day, we predict, Mounds- ville will be equally as famous for being the home of ' Fats ' as ' t now is for being the loca- tion of a ' Stale Home. He is a mathematical genius as well as a chemistry shark, and if he doesn ' t blow his head off before he graduates, he ought to land a pretty good job somewhere mixing dopes. Fats has easily outdistanced all competitors and above every one else in the class, has proven himself to be the rightful claim- ant to the honorary title, Ladies ' Man. So wrapped up is he in his love-affairs (he has a new girl for every occasion) that his other busi- ness hardly receives passing notice. He has a remarkable pull with the Faculty, attends all his classes with regularity and was never known to corre in late. ' Could I love less, I should be happier. Mabel Elizabeth Gay, Buckhannon, W. Va. Buckhannon High School, 09; Secretary Freshman Class; Special Program and Secretary Chrestomathean Society, Spring Term, 1 1 ; As- sociate Editor Pharos, ' 11- ' I2, ' 12- ' 13: Basket Ball; FrencS Club; Associate Editor Murmur- montis, 12- 13. This girl is so light-hearted that her parents feared she might become too Gay if she got far away from home, hence our college has been blessed by her presence, adorned by her beauty, and cheered by her voice. She is a reader of sreat ability and on account of her accommodating disposition, her voice is often heard in the Chrestomathean Society, of which she is a mem- ber. She has won the hearts of those who know her by her jovial disposition and friendly ways, and has all the sunshine, jollity, warmheart- edness and genuine good will that anyone could ask. She always sees the point of a joke first and laughs longest and heartiest, yet she can see the serious side and has always been a careful and painstaking student and her class-room work has been beyond criticism. As merry as the day is long. 28