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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
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P I -W This is the Val- halla. v Perhaps you've never heard of it, but 1 there was, and still is , under a different ' name, a Valhalla. l After the boys' board- ing hall, standing near where Anna Hall now is, was burned, an- other was built which was promptly named Valhalla by the boys. It remained a boys' hall until the session of 1896-97 when the President had it moved to the present site of the Fine Arts Building. A wooden structure previously used by the girls as a kitchen and dining room was joined to the Valhalla which now became the Girls' Home. The old Valhalla once more became a boys' hall in 1903, when Anna Hall was built. It remained so until the construction of Cowden Hall in 1907. Then it became the Bursar's office and ,Fine Arts Building. It was joined to the residence as shown in the picture, of Daddy Paxton, who was then Bursar. After the erection of Mary Frances Hall, the Hall was purchased by Dr. Tolman, then head of the department of Latin and Greek of Simmons, and moved to Hickory Street just north of Scott Hall. It was named Toly Hall. During the session last year, Dr. Fry purchased the Hall and had it moved to its present location on Ambler Avenue, where it is still used as a boarding hall for boys. The back room in the second story is now occupied by Horace Tatum, President of the Student's Association. This picture shows a row of bachelor shacks which were used by the boys of Simmons in the early days before a boys' hall had been built. They were made of brick, and were located on the north part of the campus extending from where the east ball , V ,, ,M , ,-, ggi' 4 4 ,A park fence now is to - W wheretheScience Hall . stands. The Admin- . - istration Building is ,kbp J-A A-A ' l on the spot where B one or two of them stood. The fellows who lived in them were cooks and cham- bermaids as Well as residents of them. Page 10
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