Morehouse College - Torch Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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SENIORS LEST WE FORGET The moving tinge: writes; and hal'mg writ Moves on; um all ynur piety nor wit Shall hm: It back to cancel half a 1111:. Nor nil your fears wash out a word of It. The Class of '46 dedicates this page to those comrades who launched out on this voyage with us in '42: but. who, because of varied masons, failed to reach graduationiour voyage end. Our heartlelt sympathy to these who en! coyntered retarding dimcultms. our sincerest encouragement. to those who might launch out again at a future date our condolences to the families and relatives of those who took the inevitable journey to that mysteriously peaceful land beyond T0 the latter group. we reverently say: Come back! ye friendship long departed! Thu: like derfiowing streamlers started. Arid now are dwindled. one by mm To strong channels in the sun' Come back? ye friends. whose huts are ended. Which seemed to darker: and decay When ye arose and went away? We venture to say every member of the original crew has been a con- mbuting factor in the successful landing of the present new All of our hopes. yearnings and aspirations have been kept vital because of the dauntless spin: characteristic of all our comrades at all times. This has been from the embryonic stage a group effort, and mainly through a feeiing of fellowship, unanimity, brotherhood, and a common purpose have we been able to carry on to a victorious end. So we would be unappreciatwc and lraitorous If we, the favored. did not vocalizt our stupendous: debt to those voyagers less favored than we. Ringing in our ears are their many words of encouragement; nestling within our hearts are the cherished memories of many experiences beautifully shared. This page is our monument to your intrinsic wotth impeded corn' rades of good ship '41. To each of you over the length and breadth of this forever changing w0r1d our success is in reality your success. We extend the palm of apprecmion to you and yours; we progress because of your chUur' aging admonition: Look not mounlfuiiy into the past; It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present; it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowv future without fear and with a manly heart. May our lives and aspirations be forever intertwined. Duty comts to Its as something hard, and we shrink from it, No one is a. Iafgc man if h; dog; 119; jch that his duty 15 largerthan himscif. ,, , . - . .. DtAchandcr McKcnzic

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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:

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1946 TORCH WHOTS WHO Most innate ............................................ Powell Holly Must athletic ...................... - ................... Jerome Harris Most scholarly ...................................... William T. Lewis The nearest. ............................................ Leon Martin The quietest .......................................... Alfred Vaughn Thc friendliest ................................ ,- ......... Earle Nance The must boisterous ............ - ........................ Earl Nance The most undependahle ................................. Andrew Gray The kindest .......................................... Charles Walker Thu: must vtrsalilc ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Paul Sanford The handsomcst ....................................... Reid Brookins Thc best drtss'cd ..................................... Claude Marshall The most talkative ................................... Solomon Johnson The most unaffected ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Robert Calloway The most affected ...................................... Charles Morton The hem cnnverezationalist ................... - ........ W'illiam TT Lewis Thc shycst ........................................ William Claiborne The youngest .......................................... Spurgeon For The oldest ............................................. B. J. Johnson The most popular ....................................... Jerome Harris The most businesslike ............................... William Claiborne The least serious ........................................... john Riley The most dmnifmd -------------------------------------- Reid Brookins The most individualistic .............. - ................... Arthur Jarrett The most ambitious .............................. Charles Morton Thu: most unpredictable 7777777777777777777777777777777 Claude Marshall The most original ..................................... William Benton The most artistic ........................................ Leon Barnes The most conservative .................................. Byron Ragsdale The most radical 777777777777777777777777777777777777 William T. Lewis The most ideaiistic ..................................... Charles Walker The most reserved .......................... Leon Martin The most enterprising .............................. Thaddeus Gailliard Had the faith of the heart bun sufficient. God would not have given you a mouth. Thomas Aquinas