Davenport College - Galax Yearbook (Lenoir, NC)

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Class Poem VfT WAS only four short d In iiiitiiiini of nineteen-three. IThat the rose bloom, which now yon know. For care was giveii to me, And this rose bl n lived with on ly thought, To help and be helped by me. Tliis sweet rose from the full garden of life. Shelter ' d ' neatb my cloister wall From the wild weeds of ignorant strife. Lifted its bead to Love ' s call For purity of soul and fragrance of bloom, To shower its beauty on all. Then another day came and past Our crimson rose shone bright For fond hopes in each petal nestled East, And its little halo of light All the while increasing its noble sphere, I tespite the coming of night. But soon came the dawning of the fourth day, And the gentle winds playing In this glad, ttow ' ry month of May Put the rose stem to swaying. Anil thi ' rose petals, four and ten in number, The evening wind wafted away. — Zoe Porter,

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The last seen of .Marie Allison she was striving for proficiency in her Phil. course. It is now the pre- vailing supposition thai success is to be hers. A bit of astounding news lias just reached ns. It is reported that Edith Arev overtook a snail some time ago. Ii is the leasi hii far-fetched, but perhaps credible. Flora Kill ledge lias made no definite decision as to her life work vet. For some lime she has wavered be- tween two positions, which have I i offered her, — the chair of mathematics in the State University, and one as Expression teacher in one of our Southern colleges. Following these, i he figure of Annie Shearer appears. She is circulating pamphlets, which bear the inter- esting headlines, How to Know Everything, and they are being disposed of at a swiff and reckless rale. Cora Blair is now living in ref i ret ne: it on account of ill health, which was brought on by the great res] ion sibilities which she had to bear as Davenport ' s librarian. We little wonder al this, for well do we all remem- ber thai extensive library, and how the girls thronged in and out al till hours. Since Mozelle Trollinger left college, she has tried her lmk with different things. For a while she was accompanist for one of t he famous singers, and later, we hear of her on (he lecturer ' s platform, expounding the subject of Bread Economy. When we hist heard of her. she had accepted a standing position as housekeeper and agreeable companion lot one of Newton ' s foremost young men. Concerning Minnie I ownum ' s career yon will doubtless be a little stir prised, when we tell yon tint she has laid aside her wonderful talents for music, voice and elocution, to become a photographer, dealing only in penny and two-for-a-nickel pictures. Zoe Porter seems to have had a keener insight into the future than her other classmates. Well do we re- member how often she was wont to say. Girls. I just know I ' m going lo marry a Methodist preacher. Little did she think then of a day that would prove her prophecies true. Once more, and I have finished. Half it hundred years from now it will be in order to celebrate Daven- port ' s centennial. May I prophesy that we shall till be here to participate, we fourteen dames of seventy years. We shall soon scatter, bu1 there we shall come together from the North, the East, the South and the West, each in her own aerial yacht. We ' ll hitch our steeds lo the fourteen spires of a mammoth new building and have a glorious time singing, Hurrah for 1957! Lina Julia Ivev.

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Junior Class