Erskine College - Arrow Yearbook (Due West, SC)

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ll? li l N I A N A ROY L. DAVIS Roidavis Philomathean HNone but himself can be his parallel. On a calm and quiet Sabbath Day the Twenty-First of August, Eighteen-Ninety-Two, while everything in Southeast Arkansas was rapidly radiating heat energy, this fellow first began to enjoy life on his father's farm near the beautiful town of Monticellog and he has en- joyed living ever since that momentus event. He has been a bundle of energy and force from his very birth and, being the youngest member of his family, is of course the idol of his mother's heart. In the fall of Nineteen-Eleven, after having tried numerous experiments in the way of life, he entered Erskine College. Here he applied himself with his usual energy and at the end of his first year took home the Freshman Declaimer's medal together with a good class record. The next year he won the Sophomore Essayist's medal and the Mower Medal. He has served on four Semi- Annual Celebrations of his society, having been declaimer his Freshman and Sophomore years and winning debater his junior and Senior years. As a member of the Y. M. C. A. he has served on two cabinets, hrst as secretary and then as treasurer. He has participated in two preliminary contests and has been on the literary staff of both The Erskinian and The Erskiniana. When an Erskine College Prohibition Association was formed in March, I9I5, Roy was chosen president. And since that time he has fought booze with the zeal and enthusiasm of a Billy Sunday. Though not an athlete he is a loud rooter and a big booster. He played guard on the Senior football team and has other interests on Forbidden and elsewhere that he guards as diligently. Out in Arkansas his favorite sport is bird- hunting. He loves to tramp the Fields with gun and dog, but he tramps Forbidden with no less Zeal and is just as good a shot at Hwicketu making as at bird-hunting. TS L 1g

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VF f gfsrueg .-- f w i i L-. 1 . INA MYRTLE BRYSON Myrtle Calliopean lf to her share some female errors fall, Loolg on her face and you'll forget it all. Four years ago the gentle Western breezes, blowing across the Piedmont Section, blew Miss Myrtle Bryson into Erskine College from her home in Guntown, Mississippi, where she has been the daughter of Mr. W. Bryson since an eventful clay in January, Eighteen-Ninety-Six. Guntown High School sent her to Erskine quiet, diffident, retiring, and studious, but a course of Due West soirees has developed her into one of the most engaging talkers that ever entertained at a Wylie Home reception. Her stucliousness, however, she has never lost. She is a faithful and efficient student, an ardent Calliopean, and a zealous Young Woman's Christian Association worker. She has served as Vice-President and as Secretary of the Castalian Literary Society, and as Marshal at the Castalian Semi-Annual Celebration. She is the youngest member of her class and like the youngest in all instances is badly spoiled. ln- clepenclence is her most conspicuous characteristic and curiosity her most predominant peculiarity, though perhaps not much more peculiar to her than to all womankind. Yet this peculiarity of hers is peculiarly fortunate in that it is supported by persuasive soft brown eyes and a voice equally as soft and persuasive. Having always had her way, as the youngest always do, she bids fair to continue to have it for she does not lack equipment: and it will not be bad, if she does, for her ways are pretty ways. She is forever cheerful and always carries a smile. She will always be remembered by her associates as one altogether lovely. She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless chimes and starry skies: And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

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E 195 lil N I A lil ,fs LEONARD H. HOOD Coober,' Philomathean Lei me have music dying and I seclf no more cleliglilf' The old North State may well be proud of this another son, Leonard Hood. Along with many Tar Heels he hails from Meclclenberg County and it is natural to infer that he is also from near Charlotte. The home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hood, is Matthews, N. C. Here Coober spent his boyhood days and re- ceived his early intellectual training. In the year l9lO he became a member of that wonderful class who style themselves Preps Next year he became fully identified with the class of l9l 5. He is a staunch member of the Philomathean Literary Society and has served her well as President, Vice-President, Ordinary and Recording Secretary, besides other minor positions. He has been a very active member of the Y. M. C. A. during his sojourn in Due West, having served on the music com- mittee his junior year and chairman of the devotional committee his Senior year. C-oober, however, is best known for his vocal attainments. He has held a seat in the Due West choir since his Freshman year and his tenor voice is often heard on E.rskine's campus. He is a member of the Erskine quartette and makes an especially good negro in the minstrel shows. In Athletics too, Coober has had a share-playing on the varsity basket-ball team during his Sophomore year, and being a big factor in the Class games the next year, when the Juniors won the Championship. As a man Coober is solid and can be depended on every time. On first meeting him, he appears quiet and reserved, but closer acquaintance reveals to you an open, fun-loving spirit, ever ready to share in any clean, innocent sport. Coober is a great admirer of the fair sex and has on several occasions been seriously affected by heart trouble. But cupid's efforts have been in vain for Coober has never succumbed to the malady except for short periods of time.