Baylor University - Round Up Yearbook (Waco, TX)

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0110 the Liam Home 621 If 1 I lt all seems funny and short lived now, our '49 painted on top of Old Main, the time the boys took Ralph Coggin's sheet and hung it on the flagpole in front of the science hall as the freshman flag, and we held - the sophomores off all night, the. time when Governor Coke gave us chita, and the aggies invaded the campus before homecoming and tried to steal the bear, and knucks and clubs flew, and when the dust settled, we had an aggie, and we painted him green and gold, and President Neff said we could take him to the pep rally if we wouldn't hurt him. The variety show, Hey Slime, -Ralph Rulley did a swell iob on that. We didn't win many football games that year, but we had the spirit, and the slime shoe race, the girls even looked quite humorous that night. Memories are cheap, they come' easy, the mornings we strolled over to the corner or to Maggie's for a cup of coffee and maybe a doughnut, and the usual good morning to Miss Kate over by the library, and Dr. Gooch ducking into the Science Hall, and if you were lucky, a big smile and a wave from Dr. Billy. Yes, there had been a time and it was spotted with faces, dotted like the evening sky, faces not clear cut, but blurry, like the prairie on a sum- mer morning. Now only the leaves come back, back to the worn steps of the library, where we compiled so many reports, where Dr. Johnson climbed, hanging on to his brief case, dressed in his double breasted' gray suit, and where the lawyers learned to argue a point. Do the others ever think of it all as they look at the sandy beaches and the sea, or view the snow on the mountains from the windows? Paul Avery and his loud sport coats, Ben'Binford and his accounting, or Sam Cannata and his, Hey, Guy. . Once the names begin, they flow-.like nickels ae slot machine, eeee be one atop the other. Pierce and Massey in Midsummer Night's Dream, Wanda Rowton and that low voice, Jerry Ratliff, and his act , grinning Cat Coley, e petite Edith Colvin, Bobby Cooper, Doris Cummins and Jess Moody, the Shield and BRH, Agnew Duckworth and the baseball team, Nancy Durie and her horses, Bill Dyal, Joe Ellis, Chuck Everett and his pipe, Buck Fanning and his laugh, and that pass-snaggin' Jasper Flanakin. Dr. Armstrong's Browning classes, Mr. A. C. Wimpee's movies, the union cafeteria, the hurried meals, bull sessions at the corner drug, picnics at Cameron Park, Red Owen's model T, the Delta Sigs' prize winning homecoming floats, the AO pledges shining shoes, Jay Torto, the weather- bear, in the Lariat,,the Round-Up pictures, Andy Anderson, Sparkey Beckham, Beauty Elections, Junior-Senior Banquets, Corrigan weekend, the way the moon used to shine across Lake Waco. Still the names iam up the channels in the mind, names which mean band trips, Woodruff's wonderful Dixie Bowl Champs, chamber men, masquerades, All-University Day, queens, cheerleaders, baby bears, the big snow, and the sledding 'onmakeshift sleds behind ialopies, water in the halls, pillow fights. A-capella choir, the Baylor Symphony, Professor Capp's debaters. Names which call to mind the blue Texas sky, the dew on the grass as you hurried to Guy B's early history class. Ellis Fuller and his Greer House gang, Frances Furrh from Mineral Wells, Doug Gatewood, Elsie Gayer and that beautiful hair, Barbara Dan Gerber, the Lengfield sisters, Shirley, Rose, Doris, and Jeanne, Raleigh Gleason, Gloria Goodman, Fred Grevelle, Dutch Hall, Auline Harris and her cousin Margie Collier, the Hicks brothers, Ray and Ed, the names come fast now, like rushing water over rapids. Baseballggames at Katy Park, Muny Stadium, the Waco and Orpheum theaters, the Elite, Bill Woods XXX, The Piccadilly, Pete's, Diamond's, Dairy Queens and hot dogs.

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Life was good and life was sweet.sHitch-hiking to Frenchy Holton, Tommy Hooser, Woody Hopkins, town and back, you miss the bus and the corner is Phil and Fannie Howard, Qthel Hurr's wonderful per- crowded, Austin Avenue, the Good Ole Baylor Line, sonality, Hallie Jo Jacksoi:,Bill Johnson's i000 plus Speight Street, the Waco Creek bridge, Fifth Street, the points thru the hoop, one thing follows another as so First, 7th and James, and Columbus Avenue Baptist churches, Dr. Feezor, Dr. Armes, Dr. Melton. Exes like Earl Hankamer, D. K. Martin, Tom Connally, Horace Jackson, Bullet Bill Patterson and others. lsie Fred and his diamond studded footballs and basketballs. Bill Henderson, Mr. Pete Jones, and good old lovable Uncle Jim Crow. 1 many schoolday memories rush thru one's mind. Thegisetermural football games, Boody Jolhnson's cleaners, the knees we skinned playing tennis, the Baylor seal we unconsciously stepped over in the foyer of Pat Neff Hall, the elevators that were always get- ting stuck, the Amicable build- ing, the birdbath across from prac- tice hall, Moe Keller's ancient Ford pickup, that piano playing Merle Kysar, Joe Joiner and Tru- man MacArthur, Buddy Tinsley a n d B e n t l e y Jones, co-cap- tains of the foot- ball team, Jim I.angley,,James McGilberry and the Student Coun- cil, Mann Mar- shall and his water wagon, Harry Marsh and his editorials, those big beauti- ful eyes of Jean M o o r e , t h a t ever present smile on Jean Morgan's face, the way Jim Phenix could wi-gd that tennis racquet, Joe Philbrick's red hair, that pretty Betty Pool, those two roommates all through college, Nancy P'Pool and Alice Phillips, our second baseman, Jack Redding, Jackie Robinson, his Ninth Street Mission, his trip to the Olym- pics, Glenn Rogers, Betsy Ross, Billie Joe Simpson, Wan- da Slocum, Elie Smith and his singing, Jack Townsley,