Milligan College - Buffalo Yearbook (Elizabethton, TN)

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WWWWWMSM BRADLEY SHEPHERD Don ' t worry about your work; do ivliat you can, let the rest go, and smile all the time. Graduate Business College; Varsity Baseball and Basket-Ball Reserve ; Band and Orchestra. This massive giant hails from Cocke County, and has the most appropriate pseudonym of Legs. He is the athletic star of our class. Legs is immune, and his heart is in safe- keeping. Legs is also a chemist of rare ability, working at this in the summer. ELLIS D. HILL He can be tvooed and won. ladies, by cooing at him. Graduate Business College; Member of the Frederick D. Kershner Literary Society ; Quar- tette ; Glee Club ; Orchestra ; Band. Here he is, ladies ! This is a beauty, and if you desire to own the toy, we sell to the highest bidder. Ellis holds a very important position as roustabout and secretary to the president. He is very fond of athletics, but the only use that can be made of him is a rooter, for the child can not play. He spends most of his time amus- ing the ladies. He says that the saddest words of ton.gue or pen are these : You have got to quit smoking. 17

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SSfMWWKM NATHANIEL C. T. BURCHFIELD Lord. Lord, how this n ' orld is given to lying! Ph. B. ; Frederick D. Kershner Literary Soci- ety ; Bachelors ' Chib; Villagers. Insect, or just Nat. as he is generally known, is an honest, hard-working fellow, devot- ing most of his time planning to hoodwink the Profs. He is said to have argued with sign- posts by the hour. Ask Dick Forbes about Insect as a debater. Insect is a frequent visitor at the Normal. We do not know the at- traction out there, but he says that his love is universal and there is no danger. KATHERINE BURRUS N o simple duty is forgot; Life lias no dim and lonely spot Thai doth not in her sunshine share. ' Graduate in Music ; Leader of Orchestra. Instructor of Violin, and Kate has a record of two hundred and fifty words per minute, and can perform on the stove as well as on the fiddle, Kate says that love is the harmonizing of two souls — well, if experience is a teacher she ought to know. She is the only one who was ever known to draw tears to the eyes of Milligan students. Music hath channs to still the savage breast, and Babe is an adept at the art. Her best-known selection is Listen to the Mocking-Bird. 16

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WWMW-MMM Senior Class History ELL, at last the day to which we ha ' e looked forward has come — graduation day. It is no longer a dream of our minds, but a reality. For four long years we have been preparing for this day. Our teachers ha ' e given us their best in endeavoring to fit us for true success in the world. They have tried to implant in our minds the fact that pure characters are the greatest attributes we can possess, and it is our part now to uphold the high standard of our Alma Mater before the world. One by one, the members of this class have come from far and near into these classic shades. The Xineteen-Fifteen Class consists of fi ' e members taking literary courses, one from the music department, and two from the business department, making our class number eight. The ]iistor - of this class began.in the fall of the vear 1911, when twent} ' hopeful boys and girls came to Milligan to begin their college careers; and, to be really truthful, we did indeed possess the verdant minds and the St. Patrick appearance usually and rightfully attributed to Freshmen. Before we had been here many hours we were seized bv that heart-rending and soul-thrilling disease — homesickness. Soon the period passed when Home, Sweet Home would bring tears to our eyes, and we were busy in learning the college routine. The reception by the Sophomore Class further dispelled whatever gloom remained in our hearts and filled us with a sa age longing to get even. When we had been here only a few days, our upperclassmates took great delight in cjuestioning us, for they percei ' ed that it was a psychological study of vast importance to discover the unj lumbed depths of a verdant Fresh- man ' s mind. Li the course of time other pleasures awaited us. Hazing, of course, is strictly forbidden, but some of our tormentors seemed to take great delight in heaving a poke of water over our transom when we were in the act of retiring. The Sophomores and Juniors took especial pains to instruct us concerning the ignorance of the faculty and the (i -erbearing disposition which they maintained toward tire student body. The class soon organized, electing officers as follows : Nat Burchfield, President : Mary Campbell, Secretary 18