Erskine College - Arrow Yearbook (Due West, SC)

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if ff- I 'u KNox BRYsoN PHAGAN. KNOX BRYSON PHAGAN- Happy 'If of mc y0zz'z'c ctw' lzeard, Yozfll adiizit that I'nz. cz IJird. ' At Fayetteville, Tenn., October 5. 1887, dur- ing a heavy rain, Knox Bryson Phagan was born into this world of trouble. His tirst im- pressions of the globe were very unfavorable. His brain was First aided in its insatiableisearch for knowledge by a course in the Molina High School. Not satished with that training, Happy entered Erskine's Fresh class in IQO5. For three years his talents were unnoticed. and no honors fell to him. In the Senior year. however, his star began brightly to shine. He was successively chosen president of the Philomathean semi-annual celebration, man- ager of the Erskine track team. and business manager of the ERsK1N1aNA. He is also man- ager of the successful Erskine Minstrels. EDGAR WALKER Pl-IARR- Pharr Hc who is a Cfl'L'Uf' orafoz' ctw' has the world UI' fZI'S fc'Cl',H b just before Benjamin Harrison took the oath of oliice. when the country was still under a Democratic President, on March 4, 1839. Edgar NValker Pharr was born in hlecklenlwurg Co.. near the city of Charlotte. After graduating at the Charlotte University School, where he won a ClClJE1lCl S medal. he joined us in our Sophomore year. An ardent wearer of the Star, he has served his society as president. -lunior orator at the annual celebration, and Senior orator on the semi-annual. llc was a contestant in both his -lunior and Senior years for the Greenwood appointment. ln 1007 he won the Mower medal for the best tleclainier in college. and in IQOS the medal for tlte lnest orator in lirskine. llecause of his legal bent tml mind. he was eleeleml to write the last will and testament for the N.xt't'.11'1'x'-N1N1-tus, linnxa XY.x1,141-il: llirxma. 22

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. M155 BELLE NICIiEI.S. BERNIE LYNCH PARKINSON H Parl-:ie H BELLE N ICKELS- Belle Her lo'z't'li11U.r.r I llt Z't'I' d'lIt'Tt' !'11l1'l she sizzflvd nn mv. VVithout consulting the alnianac, we feel safe in Stating' that there was an alqnorinally hright Aurora Borealis on Noyeniher 5. 18544. for on that night, at Xlountyille. C.. was horn Belle Nickels. ,ln the fall of 1900 she entered the Junior class of Linwood Cole lege, and graduated there with honor in june. IQO2. and in the succeeding Septeniher enrolled as an Erskine Freshman. She afterward- taught school three years before she laeczuue a nieniher of the present class, entering as a Junior in 1907. Since that 'time she has per- formed an acceptable service by stopping all stray questions in Prof. Grier's room. A ineniber of the Calliopean Literary Society. she has been secretary for two terms, and president for the same length of tinie. is b111z'1'fy was so great that Newton lllligllf llCIi'L' deduced 1110 law of graz'z'fafi011 from if. Born near Fayetteville. Tenn., January I. 1887, Bernie Lynch Parkinson received his preparatory education in the Molina High School. Entering Erskine in 1905, he con- nected hiniself with the Philoinathean So- ciety, of which he has been vice-president and president. Parkie was Sophomore declaiiuer on the semi-annual in 1907. and Junior dehater i11 IQO8. l-le won the LlCClZll1ll6l'lS iuedal in his Freslunan.year and the del1ater's medal in his Junior year. llc represented the Y. N. C. A. at Clemson in IQO6 a11d at Montreat, N. C.. in IQOS. He is Literary editor of the E11S141N1,xN and Athletic and Y. M. C. A. editor of the ERs1i1N1.xN.x, Though appointed hy his so- ciety to speak in tl1e Greenwood preliminary. he resigned 011 account of ill health. 21 liifiaxlli Lx xcu lfxicigixsox.

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4 F A JoHN SHELBY Pmxco. CHARLES HADDON SHEFFIELD Shuck JOHN SHELBY PLAXCO- Plane His lllllil' is t'7'li.S'f7 111141 lvlarls and lfllllff, His fart' is lilac the lan. Surely all the luck-giving fairies were danc- ing around the home of Rev. W. A. M. Plaxcri. July 6th, 1887. For, at that time, unto him a child was born, unto him a son was given, afterwards named John Shelby Plaxco. Har- ing overcome, or got around the obstacles put in his way by zealous teachers of the Clinton High School Plaza came to Erskine, where he has maintained his record for being a gifted man. To mention the occasions on which. and the capacities in which, he has served the Euphemian Society, there is hardly room here, for their number is legion. He is local editor of THE ERSKINIANA, class historian, and a jug- gler of no mean ability. According to some reports, the subject of this sketch is very fond of red. L'Plax was debater on the Euphem- ian celebration in both his Junior and his Senior years. Nutty, who shall u1'Z11'i1'aft'37 T011 IIICIZ love zcflzuz' I lzutvf' Tennessee lays undisputed claim to one of our best members, Charles Haddon Sheffield. who was born in Fayetteville, January 29. 1886. Admirably prepared for college at the Molina High School. Shuck entered Erskine with us poor unfortunates in the year IQO5. He was a typical Freshman, so conscientious that he began making and has never de- parted from his lirst love. Very industrious, he taught summer school in Kelso and Fair- view, Tenn., respectively. Despite a pro- nounced proclivity to use specifying adjectives when under pressure, Shuck is a loyal mem- ber of the Y. M. C. A. and was its Treasurer in his Junior year, and a representative at the Clemson. '07, Conference. A loyal and Puritan- ical Philo, he is society Treasurer and a Sen- ior debater on the Semi-annual. Shuck is assistant business manager of THE li1:s1c1Nt.-xN. Cn .xiulis H .xnltox Slllfl-'l llfl.l'. 23