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

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Back row: J. Culling, |. V, Bailey, V M Rex- road. Middle row: M. Cunningham, S. Ashby, W Douglas Scaled: D, Purkey. reception. She says she never ex- pected anyone hut the girls. ( )ne Back row: A. Linger, I) • ' 1 Morrison. From Li - omb, R Earl I . C White. could hardly expect such modesty from the woman who had won Dr. Broyles. The great moments are the mo- ments that join one ' s past with calm- ness hut with surety. Sometimes they creep in until one doesn ' t know ahout them until years afterward. Roecker sang. To most of the students he was a handsome young fellow with an unusually good voice. Cherkassky played the piano. Gamherelli danced. Suddenly Roecker, Cherkassky, and Gamberelli were all great. What one called opera had in a short time be- come a necessity of the good life. hat one had often referred to without sympathy as classical music stayed when Scatterbrain had near- ly faded from memory. Hanifan, R. Hudkins, K Re Tenner. E. Fisher. 12

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queer tribe of professors. It takes genius to conjure up such questions as they seemed to draw so easily from out of nowhere — certainly not from the textbooks. And there were moments of pure joy. There ' s nothing like a session in Mom ' s Kitchen after a hard day ' s work. Oh, yes, there is one excep- tion — the time when the girl of everyone ' s dreams asks a particular individual to take her to her sorority dance. And there are scenes that linger as typical of the whole group. From the Standing M D lastes Back R M I Bametl i onl ov I Floyd. farce of Kincaid and John ' s going rabbit hunting at twelve-thirty in the ' . I Fifce, L. Lewis, I I - B. McHenry, I renney, V Curry, J I ing, f:. J»Iitl, J Fi 1) i lylor, tt Kincaid, N Sahlitt. morning to the amazement of Mrs. Kroyle-- when the freshman boys turned out en masse at her formal 11

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Mt. Hihhs, and the kitchen; the classroom and the concert; the lab- oratory ami the countryside in fall colors; a date, anil an evening visiting a professor; a sleigh ride, a final ex- amination; love and griping; dreams and prejudices; a term paper and a swim in the Buckhannon river — these, all these, are esleyan in the memory- Indelibly blended, they make no blurred picture. It is a changing mirage passing before the eyes of a student sitting in chapel in reverie. And let no one say those reveries are not worth the best of speeches. The first bell snaps one back — not Back row K I K i . i . i :ii: Second row: D. Yutzy, B No in, M I : I Smith, 5. . M Conley. ' . I ' . , . I Bryant, McCutcheo Prom til Hi- C Savitle. Back ow ! R hi ley, L. Ri B . C. Shrcvc, B. I ■■ ■ M iee, H to the dissertation but into the future. It would be wonderful if Dr. Brown wouldn ' t call on him beyond the point where he had fallen asleep the night before. Tonight there would be the English theme to write, a chapter of history to read, chemistrv to study. There would be the formal dinner at the hall — too much for an ordinary American boy or girl. Be- sides, there would be the date for the coke at the Kitchen.