Hardin Simmons University - Bronco Yearbook (Abilene, TX)

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fix' . l I vf Have you ever heard of the days g l when the Simmons' campus was haunted by the chase of the jack-rabbits and the lonesome wail of the coyote? In those days in the place of the present Administra- tion Building we see the bachelor shacks of some of the Sim- mons boys. .lk. -J The Simmons' men seen in uniform are taking their regu- lar military training as was required then. -. Cap'n Ellis, as he was affectionately called by the students, seen to the left of the man in the white uniform,was in charge of the military drill. He is now manager of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company at Sherman. The man in white is Professor Mullins, who is now assistant professor of Mathematics in Barnard College, Columbia University. W. Frank Dillard Cover Ellis' left shoulderj finished here in 1914. He is now cashier of a bank at Tatum, New Mexico. To the right of Mullins is Clarence Cowden. D. M. Strickland Qover Cowden's right shoulderj is pastor of the First Baptist Church at Tyrone, Oklahoma. J. Manley Morgan Qover Capt. Ellis' right shoulder, 3rd row backj opened the Simmons' College Bookstore. He was also student librarian. After his graduation he was elected President of New Mexico College at Alamogordo. The Cooper Ten- nis Club had their court near Anna Hall where the flagpole now stands. Some of the players will be rec- ognized as important men in Simmons' past history. W.B. Davis, left front, helped or- ganize the Philo Soci- ety. Hubert Cooper, right end, is now the telegraph editor of the Abilene Reporter. Scott King, '14, who is now a business man of Abilene, is in the back row, fourth from the left. Page 9