North Georgia College - Cyclops Yearbook (Dahlonega, GA)

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itai» . t t« « ♦ qu. iBTk « ' T r Reading clockwise: It ' s food they ' re after. . . . But here there was gold. ... It was military ••«•••»••««««»•« « then. . . . Yes, It ' s Price Memorial, but — . . . There ' s eold in them that hills! . . . It ' s U I? fe Military today. . . . ' Wonder why the rock wall instead of the fence. . . . The Cannon in its youth. . . . Cannon? But the cigarette does the smoking. I HE ( lll,l,K,(.K I.V 181H

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ADMINISTRATION Lambuth R. Tow ' son M Sgt. W. F. Vaughn Charles M. Yager Mathematics-Physics Military Physics Will D. ■ol:NG Registrar, Social Science

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PRESENTING THK IIUST GUADUATIXG ( I.A Top row, left to right: Trammell Starr, E. B. Kuili , .U;LV ;!, 1878 (.er.rge W. Collier, V . D. Harrii Oliver N. Starr. Bottom row, left to riKlit: R. X. Coffee, W. ¥. Crussell, Mis Willie Lewis, James R. Gi M. G. Bates. John A. Howard is not shown in picture. As the Honorabl e David W. Lewis, first president of our college, stepped forward to say a few words of parting to his daughter and nine other members of the first graduating class, no one present could have realized the influence this one group of indi- viduals was to have in the world in which it then found itself. M. G. Bates soon became Adjunct Professor of Latin and Assistant Instructor of Military Tactics at the college and further pursued his teaching career as Superintendent of Schools at Fort Worth, Texas. R. N. Coffee and W. D. Harris followed the pro- fession of law, the latter becoming a circuit judge in Fort Worth. Two other lawyers from this first graduating class were O. N. Starr and Trammell Starr. The two broth- ers had entered in 1875, covering the seventy miles from the small community of Pine Log, Ga., to the college in a one-horse wagon which contained, in addition to their personal articles, an ample supply of meal, peas, and sorghum on which diet their edu- cation thrived. At college Trammell became a lieu- tenant in Company B while his brother secured the same rating in Company A and also became the first president of the Decora Palaestra Literary Society. After graduating, Trammell moved to Murray Coun- ty to practice law and to serve in the State Senate along with his brother who had set up his office in Gordon County. Death came at an early age to the Senator from Murray County, but even at thirty he was considered the best orator in North Georgia. O. N. Starr served in both the House and the Senate of the State of Georgia and was one of the organizers and for many years president of the Echota Cotton Mills located at Calhoun, Ga. At his death he was President of the Calhoun National Bank. G. W. Collier of Fulton County and Miss Willie Lewis of Lumpkin, became merchants, while E. B. Earl of Floyd County cast his lot with the educators. Of the other two members of this class, one, W. F. Crusselle, was a Professor of Greek and English at N. G. A. C. for several years and later became Editor of the Atlanta Constitution, while J. R. Gray for sev- eral years practiced law in his native Bartow County and then became Editor of the Atlanta Journal. Gray, who had been Captain of Company B, and his lieu- tenant. Crusselle, brought unmeasured distinction and credit to their papers and to the entire field of jour- nalism. t ie LASSES