McMurry University - Totem Yearbook (Abilene, TX)

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The Class of '26 President Vive-President Secretary-Treat u rer Sponsor Harold Farmer WaiIter . O'Kki.i.y I.ki.a Mae Skinner Miss Ji i.ia K. I.i ker On September 19, 1921, registration was taking place in MeMurry College for the first time. It soon came to light that there were some fifteen students, who had been Freshmen in as many different colleges, that had come to be dignified senior in MeMurry, the new junior college. It looked impossible, but this conglomeration of individuals lived through the many joys and sorrows that only a “first class in a new institution can experience. By the end of the term, this group had become a unit of devotion and loyally to the school that had won its heart. The first social function was a sunrise breakfast upon which the sun failed to rise, but the sun of success did not fail to shine on various other events of the year. The lime that remained from other class activities was given over to the establishment of precedents, our priceless heritage. So Senior Week came with its glorious whirl of gaveties. centered around the graduation of four of our number from junior college. In the fall of 1921. six of the first year’ group had returned to be Juniors, tin college having added another year’s work. Harold Farmer, of Missouri, and Mr. ami Mrs. Fee Nowlin, from Clarendon College, made valuable assets as new classmates. As individuals, this Junior Class of '25 were busy folk, but class activities were limit- ed to several enjoyable outdoor and indoor festivities, and the continuation of the set- ting up of precedents wherever we found vacant places. True to our motto, “Maximum Only, our class did not allow itself to be out- distanced by the growth of MeMurry, and when the school became a senior college, here were some of us again claiming the privileges of Seniors who might sit in the highest place in the chapel the balcony. Five of the six who are candidates for the first H. A. degrees to be conferred by MeMurry have been here since the opening «lay in 1921. and f«»r that reason we love everything about the campus all the more, because we have been here to see and to help it grow. We will watch with ever-increasing interest the phenomenal growth that we expert will continue to appear in our beloved Alma Mater. -22-