Morehouse College - Torch Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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SENIORS HISTORY It was a very pretty day m September. 1941. and the campus was just gathering autumn tn its heart. There were about two hundred ol meant- hundred sevcntv'four to he exactiand WI: were gettlng acquainted with each otherm- Say man. wherelre you fromT' Wayeross. Georgmewhat about you? hCnvingtolt. Kentucky. Oh! the state of Kentucky where they make all the bourbon, huh? Play football? A little. but I dont think Illl go out for the team here. Such were our hrst moments together. from which lasting friendship grew. Our first week was one ul otientation--taking tests, meeting teachers and advisers, heeoming acquainted with the general layout of the place And 1n those days, upperclassmen didn't exactly let us poor crabs alone. On Friday night of that week. We went tn the hrst social funless you'd gone to thrwe in the city every nightemust of us Cll'cljitl'te Morehousc'Speiman Freshman Get'tngethert It was :t memurahle necasion, and an that night were laid foun- dations lur future friendships which have and probably Wlll dCVClUp into an: other institutiunemarringc. The lirst leader of this gmup was John Forte. who through hrs periuas-it'r personality. moulded us from bewildered boys to thinking . . . well, older bOYS. ltls funny how we 100k possession of everything: we composed over hull of the varsity luotball team, basketball the same, and we had some pretty good tracksters. Our scholam were numerous-in fact. we had the only luurpulnt menetwo 0f lent: and mdny nl us ranlted high :n scholarship. But illl was not .tt ease w1th the wutld; it had been that way lor years. anti along then the draft was taking full toll: we werenlt able to hmsh the year With over hall of our hrst number---but carried on!! And the draft did more ever the summer of '43: only seventy-six of our original number returned: but we were a happy gruupt glad to see each other. and at once swapped tales of summer events. Howeven the dralt cloud still hung over us-we finished the year with only lorty-eight men. A funny thing. that draft-it changed a lot of our destinies ltruet those who went inl. but. I'm speaking of those who by their wits.were missed. Ofliclal records will show more pre'medicai and Drc'dcntal students than Mnrehouse has ever had in one Classebut in these hclds, marks Were expected tn be high, andeot course, some missed this hurdle. Wherever they are. mane 0f the boys will forget the class of '46.: initial dance in the spring of .41 while we were yer Freshmen: we had it at the USO ean informal allair that was enjoyed by everyone U remember that that was the hrs! thing that we really got together 0111; and our second one Uurgotten nDW whether it was '43 or .44.- huwever, we were sophumnresl was as good ELK. if not better than the Ersteat least, we learned nut to have such large crowds It was held at the same place. and. it was the last we gaveedue to the war. and the diminishing number of participants. Our president was 5. S. Abrahrns---efheicnt. capahIe---hut there was-n't much dotng that year. so he didn't have such a hard 10h. Wenwerel'treakttlg into everything then: The gridiron stars were Ruland Pearson, Goat. Odpm, Earl Robinson, and Frazier jolmsnn: basketball stars were Jerome Harris. OlIVCI' Brooks, and jay jackson: track stars were Zack Puwall, Shelton Penn. and yours truly, Paul Sanford. Vacationuebut work for most of us. and it was plentiful then; we had gobs of men on the tobacco farms, and our class had most of the foremene Andrew Gray, Robert Galloway. and William Benton headed the largest there, I think. Well-three long months. but September pops up before you know 11:.

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1946 TOR CH r S. Y. POE H. U. RAUSDAUS R. L. CALLOXYAY j. L. RILEY Euslis FLL. Nkmphix. Tum. Alhvm Seneca. 5. CL B A. B. A R, A. B. A. Stacmlngy Rciigiun Higtur'y Biology P. L. U SANFORD A. VAl'UHN C. C. W'AIJQER A. KELLAR Cnhnnhus Hccklcy. W'. V... Savannah Franktrm-n, Va B.A. 15. A. HS. B.S. History Religion Physics Blology

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1946 TORCH HISTORY lContinuedl Gosh! you mean he didn't get hack? an. maneUncle Sam got him; you might to see him in that uniform. Expressions like that were many when the .House opened in '44: then: were only thirty'four OJ. us--Alexandet Hawv kins, Wrilliam Lewist Richard Hitlidye. Spurgeon Poe, Solomon johnson, and Wlilliam Bouchelion. World W'nr ll Veteran: and transfer students. added to our number. But here we were at la - real upperelassmen!!! Belonging m, and heading practically all-the campus organizations. being TCC' ogtiized now :15 men, and being able to feel like we were sumehodyewe just realized what college, Mmehouse. was: . . so to hind each sun the other, intu lies more hrutherly . . And yet, our greater work was still ahead. The leadership. this time, lell upon my shoulders. 1t wasnl hzii'dehut 21 int Lil fun when you haw: lclluws like we were to work with They made things easy. It was during this year that one hiill ill the war ended, thus easing many 01 out lezirs--hut some were still :IIT the sliueluw. Wye got our greatest achievement thus tar: our members were captains u!' the lontbailt hziskcthall, and track teams, possessed the highest SChUlil$11C ranking. and we put one of our members in the olllce til the student body pi'cmdent. Seems like we never did dnyihing wronge or did we? Classes. studying, clauses. studymg, lounging on the library stepsW it doesn't take June long to rtill :ll'OlltldilfeCdnn'l. The last mile! September. '45, The wnr's m-er! You know. we were a grateful classe-un our entrance to college. the war was just getting in lull swtng: on our leaving. it ends --hut not without leaving its mark on us; for But of our original 1'74, only twelve of us remain. However. W'lll't the wars and, vets and transferee: run our number up to tweniy'six- 'cnurse that's i1 long ways from l74. The boys iaid I did a good job Sn llm president againiunly this time, the wnrlt is hatderemuch hardert Our greatest year!!! W'e are now dignified seniors, and nearer to our immediate gnzii. Therein not much tn say at our ac- tlvltiCSe-We repeated wha: weld done in the first yearn. Oh! we know how it feels to have a chamniunship basketball team: this year we won the S. I. A. C. CI'oWn. Twa of our memhers received eizatiuns from the President of the United States. for exemplifying brotherhood iVilli'um Laws and Wlllllt'lm Claiborne. They deeervecl them, too. We sponsored the HopelArcher Memo- rml Services which were Snld tu have been nmung the best of 1hc1'r kind. XVelL the ye'u' isnlt aver at this writing: sn all the Class history calf: be told: hmmn'm'x if history repeats itsellt yuu tun say that wall and in a blue Ul glory. Much might be ncrredited us for the courage we had in facing college Illeenot that it was hard, nut that we were diflerent from other men who came before us, but because the period in which we CEIlTIC was at period of in: security! darkness. and the prevalence of the unexpected -nr the expected lmeanlng the draltl: a time when men's IiiLur ' even until the next week, could not be seen 21nd when enllcgc had ohstitclet in its way that attracted men twai- jobs that paid big moneyl. But we came. we 51+th wc feared, we hoped. We prayed. and we worked hard. And now, as the fruits ol our labors, we realize a greater awardi An enjoyable and memorable period of our lives has been spent here; we've made many friends. met many important people, and have learned many of the ways til the world, have become men of no small staturei As time marches on, it'll never erase this period in our lives? the period in which we became world citizens by being, and forever being, good. true, and loyal More- housc merit The best way to make a thing fit for the use fee which it was intended is to put it to that use. Rev. L. M. Clark: