Central Methodist University - Ragout Yearbook (Fayette, MO)

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--e:f+,ss.-:xsane-fy....:n.-xff-s-a42a-:ffa-:+Evg.ie:f ::auu- f f X fl f . iss Junrrn JACKSON a Ragout Queen of today, chosen 7 by the artist whose creation of the Christy girln won him success and fame as a magazine illustrator and judge of beauty in the first decades of the twentieth century. Howard Chandler Christy, dean of the modern school, still lives and works in the artistic atmosphere he helped to create, in New York's Hotel des Artistes. Page 26

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' -mar man r,': l ENTENARY CHAPEL and the C Bench 'gave way to the most recent building program of the college, which erected the new College Church, the Conservatory, and the Parish Housegin their old places. Centenary, built ' 'X 'U in 1884, was an important seat of Missouri Methodism and an integral part of the campus. Then, more than now, the number of ministerial students and profes- sional Christians enrolled in the college made Centenary services a laboratory course in religious work. The widening appeal of colleges, even those with ofhcial church affiliation, has made a larger plant necessary, but the emphasis today is upon lay participation rather than leadership. The C Bench, which was cast in concrete in IQIQ for service between Science Hall and Brannock, dates back through the early co-educational days of Central to the time of freshman trial by torture.. Although its cool but friendly beauty on spring days and moonlight nights must have inspired many romantic thoughts, the bench was used for discrimination among men. Freshmen, for example, were denied sitting privileges. But every day, just at sundown, they were required to report to the bench for shoe-shine duty. Even the freshmen, however, joined the more fortunate ones in a curse on progress when this last remnant of the days of chivalry was sacrificed to the Central skyline of today. f iv ' f,4meee'f,z3s,r' 'wyffe , ' W' rf, fa Zire? Z- ' ' r ty ff' ' ' V f , ff ,f 11 ff- 2 Branrzorle, the library, Centenary, Science, and the gym ar they urecl Io loole from northeartern Fayette par- turer. The olaltimer who took thif 5 V V as photograph mart have been a woman- l t 1 . - hater, at leaft temporarily, for he cut of Howard-Payne. 1 Page 25

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, . 9 1 ,uv .14 72 Page 21 f HOWARD cf-fafvmss CHRISTY IWEST67MSTREET New Porky New York Feb. 27, 1959, The Ragout Central College Fayette, Missouri Gentlemen: I am enclosing the pictures marked in their order on the back of each. Unfortunately photographs do depth of personalities but r only--consequently I c and not the girl is the most I he not eprod an ju s the unp pe QV no d reach the uce the surface dge only the photographs mselves. QF course, a Judge Qpular of all human beings, but reading of these photographs will do amage to my future. With congratulations to Central Colle its possession of so many beautiful ' believe me, Sincerel ge for girls, y FOHPS, adsl ML,-, ond-W MMM