Erskine College - Arrow Yearbook (Due West, SC)

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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.

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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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L -'--- ,'yfg'si x gg .A ' 4. V - . Q .. - 1 . 3 . xy ., -.- ' t L ,X ' ' .A 3 W- ill xx l.iJt1, .l'i X GRADY DAVIS MCGILL Monk Euphemian s'Shall I waiting in despair die because a Ivoman's fair. On May 2, l890, spring ushered in the ar- rival of this youth making glad the hearts of Mr. and Mrs. VJ. M. McGill. His birthplace is Hickory Grove, S. C., and as the name sug- gests he spent his boyhood days playing in the shade of several hickory trees. At the high school of this place he was prepared for Erskine. He entered Erskine in the fall of '10, but on account of sickness he was unable to return the next fall. After one year's rest and rust he entered our class in the fall of '12, and after A several months became thoroughly climatized to the class of the Navy and White and now the class does not have a more loyal member. While i'Monk,s,' mind is never drawn from his books to think of any D. W. W. C. girl, his thoughts are centered on a pretty brown-eyed girl in Rock Hill, S. C., the best town in the state, as he thinks. If you ever hear the expression, Great night! you may know that Monk is near. Sleep does not interfere with his college course, for he never lets it enter his mind until every light in the dormitory is out. He does not believe in going to bed with the chickens, yet he can go out any night and bring in one for our mid- night lunch. Monk takes part in both baseball and football. As a baseball player he belonged to the Saturday Morning League: as a football player he featured on our class team during our Junior and Senior years. But Monk is best known in Athletics as a rooter. He is a firm believer in every team Erskine sends out and can be seen on the ground at every game, yelling for all he is worth. For several years Monk has been interested in teaching. Each summer he is found in some little school house trying to lift the curse of ignorance. And we feel sure that he will make a successful teacherqnext year.