Greensboro College - Echo Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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PRESIDENT ' S OFFICE.

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over the hills, and the stage-coaches brought the new girls in a more circuitous route, and very different from the well-laid streets and avenues of to-day. In comparison, too, the wide surroundings of then, and the miniature outfit for a college, is a picture that shows that even the present well-equipped Greensboro Female College, with all of its improvements once had a begin- ning. I have no record of the number or names of the pupils of the first year, and can mention only my own class, who formed the Junior Class for 1846. This class had each the best advantage of private schools taught by ' ' imported teachers from Northern States. Teac hers were not then found among the women of our Southland, and the establishment of Greensboro Female College marked the era for the education of Southern teachers. Of our class were : Sarah E. Smith, Chatham, N. C. ; Nannie E. Morris, Greensboro, N. C; Bettie M. Jones, Edenton, N C; Sarah Ballou, Halifax, Va.; Henrietta Crump, Greens- boro, N. C; Laura A. Crump, Greensboro, N. C. These formed the graduating class of 1848. Sarah E. Smith was valedictorian. I would be glad to give the subject of essays by each of the others, but I only remem- ber my own, ' ' Laughter and Tears, and I wish I could reproduce it now for your Annual ; but like many other things, it is buried with the archives of the past. At that time I knew how to moralize on Laughter, and since then, I have learned the meaning of Tears. My mind teems with pleasant memories of that first commencement, and I love to go back through the vista of years and look again into the happy faces of my be- loved associates and classmates, as we joined hands and hearts in that last good-bye of our college life, and stood on the threshold of What Now? and the new depart- ment of life before us. No meeting of the Alumnae can ever collect the members of that class together again. Before that summer had ended the blessed angels came for the gentle and loved Nannie E. Morris, who died at her home in Greensboro. At intervals, other years have recorded the number of that class one less, and in succession they have reached the haven of rest, and now, leaving only the name of her whom your first College Annual honors. Thanks for the tribute to my gray hairs, and happy am I to bid God-speed to younger hearts, who are so watch- fully holding the interest of our honored and loved Alma Mater. 24

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