East Tennessee State University - Buccaneer Yearbook (Johnson City, TN)

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June 5, 1931 THE CHALK LINE 31 ALUMNI NEWS The alumni of State Teachers College have been successful in all fields of education. Some have made remarkable records in the school-room, others as coaches and still others as leaders in law and politics. Miss Pearl Archer has been teaching in John¬ son City Junior High School the past year and from all reports she has been an excellent teacher. Miss Bernadine Ballard taught English in the Lamar High School this year. Mr. Kirk Banks of Elizabethton is the super¬ intendent of Carter County schools. Raymond Barry, class 1930, has been teaching and coaching at Tellico Plains where he has made a good name for himself. Mrs. Gertrude Boren is the head of the History department at the Teachers College Training School. Mrs. Boren graduated at Teachers Col¬ lege in 1930. Miss Julia Brewer, also of the class of 1930, is a teacher at the West Side School, Johnson City. Miss Brewer has been very successful this year. Mr. Charles Edgar Britton is a teacher of Geography at the Johnson City Junior High School. Mr. Howard Carr is teacher and coach at Wash¬ ington College. Besides being efficient in the school room he has produced some good basket ball and baseball teams. Miss Velma Cloyd is at the head of the Mathe¬ matics department at the Teachers College Train¬ ing School. She certainly knows how to teach Math.—We ' ve observed her. Mr. Emmett Conner is studying and practising law in Johnson City. Miss Cora Mae Crockett is teaching the sixth grade at the West Side School. Mrs. Frank Field has been teaching at Happy Valley. She is so good that they won ' t give her up. Ross Fritts is Superintendent of County schools in Johnson County. Ross has been very successful in his work. Paul Gourley is teaching in the Appalachain Teachers College Training School at Boone, North Carolina. Another alumni who has made good. Another alumni who has a good record to be proud of is Miss Catherine Hartsook. She is teaching in the Martha Wilder School. Mr. Trent Huff, ex-superintendent of Schools in Polk County, is in Teachers College taking a post graduate course. Mr. Edwin Kennedy is a teacher and director of athletics in the Newport High School. Ed ' s success as a coach is known to everyone. Rodney McNabb, a member of the class of 1930, sold enough books to make a dozen libraries. Rodney was called from this profession to teach in the Unicoi County High School where he has been very successful. Miss Dorothy Whitlock is teaching violin at the Teachers College Training School. Since she has been there everyone has wanted to learn to play a violin. Ross Walker has done his part to make the class of 1930 famous by being elected Superin¬ tendent of the Hawkins County Schools. Any¬ body want to teach in Hawkins County? Mr. L. L. Sisk is the head of the Physics de¬ partment in the Senior High School of Johnson City. Besides being a teacher in the high school he also takes an active part in church work. Miss Blanche Shoun has been very succesful teaching History in the Bristol, Virginia High School. She has built up that department there and has won praise from her co-workers; also some from Miss Maxine Mathews. Miss Vera Ross is teaching at Happy Valley. She has enjoyed two successful years there. The record of Mr. James Mooney is known to everyone. He is now the property of the New York Giants. We could write and write about the remarkable records made by the alumni of Teachers College but space will not permit. Over the length and breadth of East Tennesee the good work of the Teachers College alumni is being manifest. —SELAH. Mildred Ellison: “Well, I finally got into the movies. Nicely: “You really did! How? Mildred: “Oh, I paid the usual fifty cents. Prof. Bible: “Thank God for our follies. Harville: “Yes, I like the women, too.

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30 THE CHALK LINE June 5, 1931 and refusal to see the consequences to which like causes have led in the past. A college education for the man who has it, should fill this lack. Deal¬ ing much with the past—for which it is sometimes condemned—it should give the graduate, when he is acting as a citizen, the historical perspective from which to judge the policies he is asked to support or oppose by comparison with similar policies and their results in his own and other countries. The habit which it should give of looking on things not by themselves but in their relations to others will enable the citizen to ap¬ praise the proposals of either the enthusiastic re¬ former or the rigid reactionary; to search for and if necesary to expose to others the immedi¬ ate or remote consequences which the preponents of a scheme are very apt, with or without inten¬ tion, to keep somewhat in the background. And what of the value of the college education to the man, himself, as a man? It is well for a man to be devoted to his work, but man was not made to work all the time. Outside of his office, he should be something more than the “tired business man.” He can do his work better if his education has enabled him when the day ' s work is done to turn to something entirely different, something which will send him back to his desk refreshed by the rest which comes from an en¬ tire change of ideas and interests. Perhaps it is here that the college education pays best after all. For the other features which I have spoken of have to do only with making a living—this counts in making a life. LOVE ETERNAL Was I long, long ago with you somewhere ? Have we far distant lands ever trod? Since the Spirit returns to the Giver, Were we not long ago then with God? There is something that makes me recal it, But I cannot recall where or when, In the depths of my soul though I feel it, And I know that we love now as then. For our Love is of God, and eternal. It was then; it is now; it shall be, When, with bodies celestial, we enter Into joys mortal eyes cannot see. —I. L. H. THE TRAIL OF LONG AGO (Meditations of a T. C. Alumnus ? Years Hence) As I idly sit and gaze at the stars In the moonlight ' s shinning glow My mind goes back to a well worn track To a trail of long ago. I can see it still as it stretches way ' Twixt a border of maples and oaks With the sunlight here, and the shadows there, And the clouds floating by like smoke. I can feel the cool breeze on my cheek. Hear a ripple of laughter low. I can smell the perfume of the lilacs in bloom Down that trail of the long ago. But others are walking that trail tonight Little dreaming that we may know The mystic delight of those starry nights Down that trail of long ago. They go to the Library, and there they halt. Then up to the main building, slow. To the Cafe and back—they are all on the track In the trail of the long ago. Lost: Two nights sleep. Cause: A girl named Inez. Result: Red present at roll-call but passed right out. “Hello.” “Hello, is this Margaret?” “Yes.” “Do you still love me?” “Yes, who is it?” Frances: You raised your hat to that girl who passed. You don ' t know her, do you? Mr. Brown: No, but my brother does and this is his hat. A dainca A data Out lata Perchanca A classa A quizza No passa Gee whizza.

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32 THE CHALK LINE June 5, 1931 “The Mystery of Murphy Hall” AUTHOR’S FOREWORD The idea came to me to write this play when I saw in the paper that an Atheist Club was being organized among the students in a certain southwestern University. I consider this trend in modern education lamentable, and I have attempted a farce, hoping to portray a scene from the sublime to the ridiculous. With all apologies for this attempt, I am reminded of the lines from “Adam and Eva”—“All the world’s a stage but most of us are on)y stagehands.” —EDNA DANIEL. Characters Harold Jaynes .... President of the Club Charles Beard ..... Secretary of the Club James Doyle . Member of the Club Haynes Webster ..Law Student and Member of the Club John Carter ..... Visitor Mary Davis .... Friend of John and also a Visitor Zeke .. Negro Janitor of Murphy Hall Scene: The large stage of the Auditorium in Murphy Hall was the place chosen by a few summer stu¬ dents of a well known southwestern university as a meeting place for a newly organized Atheist Club. This place was chosen because it was sel¬ dom used during the summer session. To the right center of the stage is a desk, be¬ hind which the President of the Club sits. Be¬ side him and on the left is the secretary. Further to the right, semi-circle-wise, sit the other mem¬ bers of the Club. The main entrance is also on the right. To the left of the desk and at the front of the stage is a table. On this table is a lantern slide machine, sometimes used for demonstration pur¬ poses. Its lenses are now pointed toward the desk, j | Around the walls are groupings of college ban¬ ners irfc gay coloring. On the desk is a vase of fresh flowers and a glass of water beside it. On the corner of the desk is a briefcase belonging to one of the members. The fellows are wearing white flannel trousers blue coats and flaming ties. The preliminaries of the meeting are over and the President is addressing the Club. HAROLD (Tall, Dark and Thin Fellow) My friends, I am very glad to see you assemb¬ led once again. It is flattering to me that my speech on Atheism at the last meeting has found approval among a few of those present at any rate. Permit me to say, fellow students, that I am exploiting this subject very thoroughly and that I expect to give to the world a syllabus of my deductions at a future time. (The negro jaintor in the hall not far away can be heard singing in a quavering voice: “How Firm a Foundation.” HAROLD goes to close the door and JOHN CARTER enters simultaneously.) HAROLD How do you do, Mr. Jones? It is very gratify¬ ing to have such a distinguished visitor with us today. You are soon to become a Ph. D. I un¬ derstand. Let me introduce you to our charter members. Mr. Jones, this is Charles Beard, a student of theosophy. JOHN (A pleasant, unsophisticated young man) I am inte rested already, Mr. Beard. HAROLD And this is James Doyle, whom we believe is a nephew of the late English philosopher, and one who is also interested in spiritualism. JOHN (Bowing) This is all very interesting, a very intellectual company, indeed. HAROLD And this is Haynes Webster, our star debator at the University; and by the way, Haynes here firmly believes in nothing we have to say or that anyone has to say. He likes to argue, but we expect him to be convinced of the Atheist point of view in the end. HAYNES (A tall, lean, scholarly-looking student) (Rising) Now, see here, Jaynes— HAROLD (Continuing, and HAYNES sits down.) And now, John, may I ask if you ' d be interested in joining our Pioneer Organization? JOHN Well—now—Just what is the object or pur¬ pose of your organization? HAfOLD (Turning to CHARLfiS) Mr. Secretary, will