McMurry University - Totem Yearbook (Abilene, TX)

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 Ul In 187V I’m is Cox. n (Jualei. set out for the Llano I.slaeado of Texas to form a Trends’ Colony. This mis a I unit a htimlreii miles in advance of the frontier settle- ment then in Texas. They invited l)r. II illiam Hunt to go along as their physician, and in the muds of D . I. II . Hunt. II hen uns five years old. I moved the family to Texas.” Other than the (Junker Colony, there uas not a farm house, a church, a school Iniilding. or even a fence on all the plains. There uas only one uell, and that uas at E slaeado It uas dug In Tatis ( ox and nulled with stone, hauled from Itlanco Canyon, a distance of tnenty miles. Colorado City, the nearest loan, uas one hun- dred and tnenty-f. ve miles distant. The trading points acre so far an av that the u hole neighborhood non Id sometimes run shot I of firovisions. Herman bebe hill. Jr. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF j. B. holt BUSINESS MANAGER

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On a still July morning in J875, James Winford Hunt was horn on the Kmc Reservation in the Indian territory where his father. I)r. William Hunt, had been sent as government physician by President I . S. Grant. When the baby was only a few hours old. his mother. Elizabeth Pruitt Hunt, held the tiny squirming little fellou in her arms, looked into his round face, gave him the name James Winford, and dedi- cated him to the ministry. As the child grew, he became a great favorite with the Indians who affectionately called him Docka Shinda Little Doctor. presumably because of his likeness to his father. Of the nine children in his family. Docka Shinda was the most fasci- nated by the Indians and picked up from them many traits which lie carried through- out his life. THE TOTEM 1934 Published by the Students of McMURRY COLLEGE ABILENE. TEXAS

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Foreword Our year's strivings am I efforts are lioiiml up in this one volume, the 1934 Totem, that ice present to von hoping that it meets with sour approval ami apprecia- tion. It is our aim that this hook portray the life of our campus am! forever lioltl up the McMurry Spirit in its wonderful meaning ami significance. II e only wish that the content gives you as much pleasure in rcalling it as it did us in com piling it. The Colony, unlike (he ma- jority of frontier settlements, was made up of cultured and educated pioneers. They were deeply religious Quakers; and as a result of this whole- some influence, even the cow- boys on the range though presenting n rough exterior, were noted for their rugged honesty. In his Inter life. Dr. Hunt captivated his listeners' minds and hearts when he told of the cowboy fiddler playing under the light of the stars after a hard day on the trail, and his picture of pioneer life never failed to please his audiences. Miss Emma Hunt, oldest sister of Dr. Hunt, taught the first school on the plains in a dugmit. I. a t e r, the Quakers established u college known as Central Plains Academy, from which insti- tution James Winford Hunt, the youngest member of his class, w a s graduated with honors in 1893 and was awarded a fellowship to an Eastern College. It was in school that he received his first training in debate and public speaking which was to furnish the ground work for one of the most eloquent orators and brilliant plat- form speakers in Texas.