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

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' Tfte KirUe Black marks on a white ground — that is all these words would mean to a savage who might glance at them for a moment and then away. Without a doubt he would stare with awe at the pictures found on these pages, but soon his interest would fall on other things. To you. the Wesleyan student, they are something more. With no other guide than mere printer ' s ink on wood-pulp, you will again be able to relive the days of a former year. For you they are building a bridge across time and space. A bridge that forever will connect the present to the past. A bridge that grows longer as the years go by and will serve as the main artery to the year of ' 49 on Wcsleyan ' s campus. For the Wcsleyan student this year book is that bridge. It becomes the means whereby our thoughts can return to our former college days and thus enable us to vision this earlier period. Because of its unique quality of bringing to light the past that will slip into some remote corner of our minds, the value of this book will be ever increasing. Not merely because of age but through its ability to bring back memories that will become as bright as gold as they are polished by the passing years. Let us consider for a few moments what the past will mean to us. These days at Wesleyan constitute a single phase of our lives. Although the time spent in the college halls in reality will seem like days or months, these few months will be as precious and as vital as any period in our lives. Here knowledge was gained which has. even though we are not aware of it, made our lives richer and fuller. Here friends were made that remain close to us until each shall take his chamber in the silent halls of death . Since our lives arc lived in association with others, it is obvious that our memories of Wesleyan will be mainly of those we knew while there. It will be natural, as the years pass and we think of our former college days, to relive moments with college friends. Whether student or teacher, they are the ones, made in youth, that above all others will remain closest to us. These that we came to know will be without a doubt the most valuable possession we drew from the well of knowledge in Buckhannon, It is through these friends that we will meet others along life ' s road and through these that we will be helped over life ' s future winding paths. It is the purpose of this annual to help those who view these pages to live again the moments of these college years, to help recollect tlioughts of our college friends and the times we had with them, and to help bring to light the dreams of younger days so that life may become more meaningful. One never grows too old to dream. Surely it is one ot the richest privileges of our lives, and certainly it is a noble companionship — this that is made possible by black marks on white paper. page 3

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Forward Dedication- Presidents Message 14 Community Council President ' s Message 15 Faculty and Administration 16 Seniors 24 Underclassmen 38 Activities 58 Organizations 76 Athletics 112 Advertisers and Roster 128 page 4

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f949 TftuftmufimaHtU On April 6, 1948. death took from the membership of the Board of Trustees of West Virginia Wesleyan college one of its most loyal and active members. Laman C. Shingleton. He was born November 12, 1883, at Hebron, West Virginia. After gradu- ating from Marshall College, he moved to Clarksburg in 1909 to enter busi- ness there and immediately identified himself with the First Methodist Church. He achieved outstanding success as a business man. At the time of his death and for many years prior thereto he served as general manager and trea- surer of Shingleton Brothers in Clarksburg, as president of the Monon Valley Company in Fairmont, as secretary and treasurer of the Valley Orchard Com- pany in Belington. and as president of the Community Savings and Loan Company in Clarksburg. Despite his many business duties he found time to devote his splendid abilities and sound judgment to numerous civic activities. He served as a mem- ber of the City Council of Clarksburg and of the Firemen ' s Civic Service Com- mission. He was a past president of the Clarksburg Rotary Club and for many years served as a member of the Board of Directors of these civic organizations- However, it was to his church and its affiliated organizations that he gave the largest measure of his devotion and service. No busy layman could have done more for it than he did. Shortly after joining the church he taught a young men ' s Bible class. In 191 7 he was elected superintendent of the Church school and served in that capacity for twenty-one consecutive years. He was a member of the Official Board and director of the budget of the Church for many years, the chairman of its pastoral relations committee, and its Lay Leader. He was a member of the Board of Education of the West Virginia An- nual Conference of The Methodist Church and of the Conference Committee on Entertainment. One of his strongest loves was for West Virginia Wesleyan College, of whose Board of Trustees and Executive Committee he was a member for many years. His sound advice and wise counsel was constantly sought in the adminis- tration of its affairs. It is with a deep sense of loss that we at Wesleyan pay tribute to a strong leader and devoted trustee. page