Milligan College - Buffalo Yearbook (Elizabethton, TN)

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WWMMMM vote of thanks to the faculty for the said privileges. We also wish to remember our Profs for booting us over so man) ' clitBcult places, and, as we are about to pass out, we see and acknowledge the many mistakes we have made. Our organization this year is as follows : E. C. Buck, President : Myhr White, Vice-President ; John Prather, Secretary and Treasurer ; Nelle Brumit, Poetess, and Nat Burchfield, Prophet. AVe, as Seniors, feel the responsibility resting upon our shoulders, and it is with a considerable amount of pride that we point to the fact that every male memlser of our class is a member of the Bachelors ' Club, disdaining to mingle with the common horde which gathers weekly in Hardin Hall. As there is an end to everj ' thing, so the history of the Class of Nineteen-Fifteen, with its successes and failures, comes to an end. With great hopes for our future in the world of work, and with a steadfast belief in our ultimate success if we follow the teachings we have received, we close this history of the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Fifteen. Myhr White, Historian. 20

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' iM ' M-:p :!l -K:;SS M and Treasurer. ' e enjoyed yevy mucli the social e -ents of the year, our own class socials being still fresh in our minds. Our belo -ed Profs exercised a great deal of patience and wisdom in managing us. and by the end of the vear we were firmly convinced that what we did not know was not worth knowing. Next year the Class of ' 15 reassembled on the old campus, no longer fresh and green, but as imposing and self-important Sophomores. The class was reorganized with an enrollment of si.xteen, and the following were elected as officers: ' . G. Forbes. President; Clyde Hendri.x, ' ice-President : Ruth Vatkins. Secretary, and Alary Campbell, Treasurer. A social comnfittee was also appointed, consisting of J Iae Na -e, Ruth Watkins. ] Iary Campbell, Clyde Hendrix. and Myhr White. ] Iany social events of the year were enjoyed by the class, especially the receptions given in our honor by the Juniors and Seniors. Our wisdom that }-ear surpassed that of Socrates, and our philosophy put the ancient sophists of Greece to shame. Social science, religion, economics, ethics, and all of these great questions were settled by the conclusi ' e. inclusive. exclusi -e, and preclusive arguments which we set forth. Yea, truly, Solomon in all of his wisdom was not as wise as one of us. Upon our return to college in the fall of ' 13, dire disaster was in store for us. We found that on account of the course being raised some of us would not be able to graduate the next year. The class was reorganized, however, with a membership of eight, and our number was augmented con- siderably by the arri -al of Mr. John Wonderful Prather. a member of the ' 13 Class of McLean College. Officers were elected to the tune of Mary Campbell. President : Myhr White, Vice-President : John Prather, Secretary. Of all the e -ents of the year, none w as enjoyed so mucli as the day we took our dearly beloved Seniors up to Watauga River. The day was ideal ( ?), and we crowded it with fun, but old J. Pluvius proved unkind and we returned home drenched, but happ}-. We paid the entire expenses of Commencement exercises b) ' the presentation of The Rose o ' Plymouth Town. which was the greatest success along the dramatic line that Milligan has ever known. Our history is drawing to a close. As Seniors, we have enjoyed with dignity the special privileges which liax ' e been granted to us, such as going to town hen Prexy said we could and being allowed to go to Sunday school and church and to cut a class occasionally without threats of expulsion. We have enjo} ' ed these pri -ileges, and it is our desire as a class to record a special 19

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m ' mWWM ' M Senior Clasfi ropijrrj) Chicago, III., May 20, 1935. Miss Nelle Brumit, Nashville, Tenn., Dear Nelle : Doubtless this will be a surprise to you, Init I am going to tell you some of the happenings that ha -e occurred to our old classmates of the Class of ' 15 at Milligan. Wliile I was standing in an office in New York the other day, my attention was attracted by the click of a typewriter as some one pecked industriously away on the keys. I glanced up, and in so doing I recognized a face that carried my wandering thoughts back to college days at dear old Milligan, Just then the fellow raised his eyes from his work and began softly to croon a sweet melody that carried to my mind recollections of having listened to the harmonizing of that voice with others, time after time, at Milligan. It was none other than Ellis Hill, who, you will rememljer, acted so faithfully in the capacity of Secretary to the President in 1915. He recognized me immediately when I spoke to him, and insisted that I should stop for a friendly chat. You can well remember, no doubt, the ability which he always displayed in the gab line, and he soon showed that he had lost none of his power as a talker. It had l)een twenty years since I liad met any of the old bunch of ' 15, and of course I was anxious to hear anything that he might have to say. in regard to them and their positions in life. Hill was working for an employment agencv as stenographer, and he told me that quite often a familiar name came in, and among the numlier he had noticed the names of several members of our class. Ephraim Buck had been one of the first to send in his ajiplication for a •position in the big city. The high and mighty aspirations which he had cherished since childhood, of earing a senatorial toga and gracing the Senate Chambers at Washington, had anished like a snowball before a July sun after he had participated in two elections in Virginia ( in l)oth of which, it is needless to say, Eph came out at the little end of the horn), . fter gathering his scattered thoughts together, Eph came to the realization that life is a sad 21