Guilford College - Quaker Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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HUILFOl Mentor Claste liittv$ J. G. ReddECK I ' re side 11 1 J. Benbow Jones ' ice-President DEBORA ii Brown Secretary Lawrence Grisso m Marshal Deborah Brow x isti rian A [phi ic Mi irk is Prophetess ToTTEn MoTon Fuel ess ELBERT Fort - Last Will and Testament Berkice PiKt Valedictorian 25

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GUiU ' OED lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllW Mentor Class J tstorp And lo Dr. Hobbs looked out over the green hills of Guilford on September 8, 1914, and heaving a great sigh said, Behold, how they arc increased that trouble me! |]HIS remark was indeed apropos. For had not forty- four young hope- fuls cast in their lot at this honored seat of learning on the above date. And truth compels us to admit that this bunch was perhaps more than ordinarily forlorn and friendless in appearance, and a lost or strayed sign might well have been appended to any one of us. With feelings of mingled wonder and awe did we become initiated into the mysteries of our first opening reception and receive formal introduction to those higher up. And that first class meeting! How far away and hazy that evening seems in retrospect. Rut by some process which James could doubtless have explained satisfactorily we can even at this range reproduce slightly that thrill which crept down our spines when we found that we in class meeting as- sembled were actually voting for class officers. An older chronicle assures us that this ancient election was a wise one, ami be it far from your present scribe to dispute such an authority. Suffice it to say that we duly became an organized class and took upon ourselves the role of Guilford College citizens. Doubtless we received the prescribed amount of advice and admonition from the members of the class just above, and mayhaps a few of our number even suffered physical violence ( ?) during some of the snowstorms of that year. Rumor has it that some ' 18-ers actually camped out on certain nights during that first year. Re that as it may, it must be said that we remained thoroughly good-natured all the while and were always willing to be shown. In the spring term of this first year we met the Sophomores in forensic combat and made them fight to the last ditch for the two-to-one decision ren- dered in their favor. Even in our earliest days we possessed orators of note and Roger Kiser succeeded in bearing off the Clay oratorical medal — an unusual honor for a first year man. ( )ur Freshman athletic record while in no way brilliant is one upon which we look backward with satisfaction. We put down our erstwhile moral advisors in interclass basketball, and made the Juniors look well to their laurels for the class championship. And now it becomes my duty to chronicle the saddest event connected with our initial year at Guilford. Of the valiant host who bravely enlisted in the ranks of College Algebra, few alas ! survived to tell the tale. Lest our readers should dwell too long on this sad picture, we shall hasten to sing the story of our second year at Guilford. Rack again we came twenty- eight strong. This was to be sure a slight decrease in numbers, but our short- 28