Davenport College - Galax Yearbook (Lenoir, NC)

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Clyde Thomas, who has presided so gracefully over the class, will continue to thrust her little inquisitive nose into all the mys- teries of life. Many hours of happy inquiry await her. Though these inquiries should lead her beyond the mountains of pleasure into the valley of sadness, her song goes on forever. Playing jokes with Time and Fate, the sour old world will take heart and laugh again because she has smiled into his careworn face. Around each festal board one empty chair awaits the return of some loved one who has gone away for a little while. A shadov falls across the printed page, a mist upon the hills, and books must be closed until some fairer day. Lucy Rankin, the friend of all, shall gather flowers everywhere, and the light of this world shall grant stronger visions than she yet has known. We would not close this prophecy without promising her many days of happiness, for God shall wipe away all tears from her eyes. And now my task is done. No prophet has been granted a message for herself. She sees her future through a glass darkly. But in after years it shall be face to face, and I shall know even as I am known. Then over on the eternal hills we shall gather, a reunited class, in the university where the Great Teacher shall lead both class and faculty into all truth. The stem hand of the present is drawing me back from the great future, but one message rings clear and strong from the profundity of the coming years : Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. And in his name we go, unafraid. Mabgabet Katherini Newell. ? V ' ( ' ' L-

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Coming and Clj ' de is the One for Me. The far-away Moses of her snapping black eye will fix its steadfast gaze on a little cottage in the shadow of the dreamy pines, and there she shall sigh her sweet life away in perfect contentment and peace, divided with the only one. Esther Brown will not fulfill her purpose in being a prim old maid. Athene is leading her into the kingdom of thought, where she will preside with grace and dignity. Her deeds will blossom about her, and from around her quiet life there will spread a soft and steady light, kindled from on high, which shall make ever)- life it touches lovelier and holier: and at last we shall find inscribed nn her tablet in the hall of fame a record of works more marvelous than Pestalozzi ever made. Dora Elizabeth Tuttle ' s life must be deciphered from the favorite spelling book. Dnmi in the sylvan retreats of sequestered (iamewell a lovelorn swain awaits her coming. The spelling book will be exchanged for an ancient grammar, the pages of which ttill always open at the conjugation of the verb to love. Stella Naomi Owenby will finally center her affections on some Whistling Rufus, and tlien talk Buncombe for the remainder of her days. The hours of incessant labor over the books that would not keep have left but a shadow of her former self. She must exchange for some less arduous toil ; and if she attempts anything heavier than kitchen accounts, her doom is sealed. Henrietta Montgomery is the sphynx of unsolved rid dles, the unraveled mystery of Davenport. She never smiled again. Never again shall unsought opinions emanate from those rosy lips. No, my dear Henrietta, the mocking bird, gay king of songsters, walked through all the night without a single note until the cold, gray dawn, and then burst into wondrous song. We look forward to the day when love ' s young dream shall fiame in smiles upon her now unruflled cheek and Cupid ' s mightiest melodies will ring through the erstwhile silent chambers of her heart. In the sweet ' Fields of Granite Falls is enshrined the portrait of our poet. Miss Ethel Terrell. If he were the master critic, old Shakespeare ' s laurels would quickly fade. We see her going from peak to peak of the heights of song. Carolina is coming to her own. The limpid streams of old Caldwell will be as famous as the River Doon. Edna.Holsclaw, the Clio of our class, will be a maker of history instead of a writer of chronicles. Her guardian angel is leading her away from her cherished ambition to tell the story of the cross to regions beyond back to the shores of the beautiful Wa- tauga, and there, beginning at Jerusalem, she will take up her life work as assistant pastor among her own people. In the midst of this happy employment she will continue to win high honors, and, like a modern Ruth, will glean in the fields of her chosen Boaa, binding many precious sheaves for the Master ' s granary by the bands of her own sweet personality. 26

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Junior Class Motto: FiVOEiTE GiMi: ■ ' Ecce Homo. Authors. Yell: Sopho., Sopho.! Pshaw, pshaw, pshaw! Juniors, Juniors! Ha, ha, ha! Flowxb: Colobs: Hyacinth. Light Blue and White. » OFFICERS MARIE ALLISON President EDNA HAYES Historian ZOE PORTER Poet LOUISE GWYN Secretary and Treaaurer MEMBERS Maude Edith Allbed. Hestee Gebtbude Honeycctt. Mabt LomsE Gwtn. Edith Augusta Aeev. Edna Hates. Marie Allison. Lina J. Ivet. Maooie Lou Boggs. Ruth Clatwell Kinset. Cora Mae Blair. Jo. Calville Newland. Lillian Cooper Brtson. Zoe Poeteb. INA Violet Carpenter. Flora Rutledge. MOZELLE Teollikqeb. Imogene Tuttle.