East Mississippi Community College - Lion Yearbook (Scooba, MS)

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A LESSON IN PSYCHOLOGY cr GETTING RID OF DEPRESSION We pause, but not for long; The future lies ahead And we will gr eet the dawn. A cloud over-shadows, but as we pause We make a study true and find The cloud will disappear ; If we will use our magic brushes Which are courage and a will to do. We look up and of the cloud; We get a clearer view. It is dark, but as we gaze And with our minds we brush away The cob-webs gathered there We find the darkness of the cloud Isn ' t black as we supposed. It ' s a royal purple, beautiful as a rose. That ' s why we ' re so happy. Can ' t you guess the reason ? It ' s as plain as can be : The cloud ' s old man depression. Whom we ' ve heard so much about. Now you see why we can smile ; We ' ve discovered without a doubt The old man doesn ' t even exist. You see old man depression is just a habit, And it ' s true its victims number thousands Yea, and even more and yet some more. The secret, dear friend is — (That is if you wish the habit to disappear;) Apply Psychology, freely, rub it in— No, you can ' t break the habit, but you can Substitute a clear-cut mind AND CHASE OLD DEPRESSION OUT OF VIEW. By Harold Daws. 17

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The Lion omm. RUFUS WIGGINS, Kewanee, Miss. A. A. Nothing is more friendly to a friend than a friend in need. ELKIN WOODRUFF, Houston, Miss. A. A. ' ' He hath kept the whiteness of his Is soul. ]CV W J EALPH WOODRUFF, Houston, Miss. A. A. Lord of himself. SAM WEAVER, Smithville, Miss. A. A. 16

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The Lion Class Prophecy In the spring of 1946 I very unexpectedly became the posses- sor of a small fortune. As I have always loved to travel, and as I wanted to forget for awhile the worries of school teaching, I de- cided that 1 would See America First. I joined an expedition which began at Mobile. When I entered the Greyhound in which we were to travel, the hostess seated me next a woman of about my own age. Imagine my surprise and de- light when after a few minutes I discovered that she was my old school chum, Sally Pearl Mars. We naturally began to talk of our school days at Seooba, from which institution we were graduates. Sally told me that she was now a Physical Ed director in one of the schools in Mobile, and that she often saw Marion Fisher, her old roommate, who sometimes visited there. Marion had been married for about seven years to a very brilliant young- lawyer. Sally asked me about Nellie Ruth Butler, my former room- mate. I told her that the little affair with Irvin Henderson had finally flowered into real romance and that they were living in one of the new surburbs of Meridian, where Irvin was a well-known electrical engineer. We talked on for awhile about the occupations of other mem- bers of our class and Sally told me that Maxine Ivy was a doctor in a large hospital in New York. She also told me that Eddie Sparkman was a successful football coach at one of our leading colleges. And speaking of colleges, of course we both thought of John Moore, who was head of the Chemistry department in one of the large eastern schools. Sally asked me about Robbie Jackson and Katherine Lever. I told her that Robbie was married and lived on a farm near Amory, and that Katherine was the hostess on one of the large air lines. Sally and I had become so interested in talking about our school days that we hardly realized that we were almost to Pennsacola. We stopped here for one night and were very surprised to encounter Leon Bounds in the hotel at which we were staying. He told us that he was the house detective. This seemed a very suitable oc- cupation for him as he had always had a gift for finding out things. After leaving Pensacola we went through Georgia, stopping for a time in Atlanta. While Sally and I were shopping, who should we see but Elkin Woodruff. He was the floorwalker in one of the large department stores. He told us that Ralph had married one of the E. M. J. C. girls and was now working in the Research Laboratory in Labrador. While we were in Atlanta we saw Carolyn Evans, who was en- gaged in Welfare work, and Elizabeth Colbert, who was a dress designer in one of the exclusive shops. Elizabeth told us that 18 I