Meredith College - Oak Leaves Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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THE OLD OAK '

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The Oak Leaved (S1aff. 1904. Isabelle Gulley Editor-in-Chief L. Margaret Ferguson Literary Editor ART EDITORS. Katherine Tillery Futrell Heselope Purefoy ASSOCIATE EDITORS. Virginia Egerton Martha Kaynes Maggie May Lewis Laura Cox business managers. Lizzie Dixon Carrie Booker Lucille Ellington, Assistant Sallie Tomlinson, Assistant