Northwestern Oklahoma State University - Ranger Yearbook (Alva, OK)

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On the tropical isle of Zoonora, the habitation of a race similar to the Chinese, the queen (the king having lately passed away) sat in regal splen- dor, among foreign embassy, who, forgetful of duties, sat enchanted by her smile. Thru the light gray of her brow I recognized Hermione Stewart. A great tourney was in progress. It seemed that the well known H. W. Hough ton was starting his famous walk around the world in forty days, accom- panied by Louie Morton. In a convent garden I beheld the sweet face of Laura Light, and I won- dered what could have changed things so. Standing on the steps of a nearby dormitory was Muriel Cunningham. Disappointed in love, she had settled, ill content. As I watched I was again in the swan-boat, dreamily drifting, and I aroused to wonder.

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The Fairy Queen then related of the perfections of a marvelous discov- ery devised by the world ' s greatest scientist and psychologist. The sub- stance of it was that a masculine mind with certain mental propensities, could, when enrapt with a feminine mind of like propensities, who inhaled the fumes of his wonderful concoction, Nitrohyrogasamonaicsulphratumic, could command from the feminine throat a sound or note that would charm the fishes of the sea. This man had searched the world over for such a voice and found it in the person of an old Northwestern student, none other than Lorinda Mason. I now saw below us a boat with gossamere canopy and heard siren-like notes, and saw the fish trailing after, all headed for a sort of shute, which entrapped the beguiled creatures and emptied them into the largest fishery known, owned and manipulated by Melvin Mann, the discoverer. Down a distant avenue came two figures, both nearing middle age. yet gay, each divinely happy with the other. In the same way life seemed com- plete, for they were none other than Sylvia Fisk and Harry Foster, still gathering their large share of life ' s joys as sweethearts ever true. There then appeared another and larger crowd. These were all in a worshipful attitude, gathered about a woman expounding upon their sinful lives. With all her old earnestness and sweet sacrificing I discerned Neva Linn. Those about her wore small, unpretentious bonnets of black and above them waved a banner, Salvation Army. Among those most prominent I beheld Idella Cox, Edith Albright and Gladys Blackford, the exemplary lives of these girls needing no eulogy. In front of a homely bungalow I saw a woman leave a taxi and hurry up the steps. It was none other than Ethel Gray. She had married, thanks to a distant relative, who had kindly died and left her a most opportune fortune. Thru the skylights of a suburban church of Boston I beheld in the pulpit a seemingly familiar figure. I was assured by Yes, it ' s Roy Dillon. He is doing a great work. In one year his converts outnumbered the total of Billy Sunday. From the yard of a gray stone building I heard a familiar voice declar- ing the right of her sex. My heart paused. Surely it was not who I thought. But we cannot evade facts, it was Mayme Spurrier. True to her old spirit, unconquerable, by day she declared to the prison walls and by night she knew speeches to effect her cause, as soon as she was allowed her freedom. At the ocean a vessel was leaving the wharf, and on its deck was a party of scientists, off in search of rare truth and specimens of hymenapthera (and incidentally a man hunt). I discerned the faces of Tilly King, Vivian Robin- son and Edith Heaton, happy as of yore. On our way to foreign lands we saw in Reno a gay feminine figure. It was none other than Gladys Schnitzer. I learned that this was her third trip. She was now securing a divorce that she might marry the bachelor candidate tor governor of Arkansas on the ' possum ticket — Maurice Dickey, Esq. In Paris a more wonderful array of modern modes I ne ' er beheld than those of a Parisian modeste, Byrdie Dyer. What a sinecure, I explained as I beheld our own Byrdie. Next, to the famous Terpsichoreaniste. Her season ' s dance for the society of 1930 was the Anneannoannat. Imagine my surprise at seeing Anna Thomas, its originator, still a diligent student of the Woman ' s Home Com- panion. On the field of war of the Antipodes we beheld a grewsome yet gallant sight. The commander, amid the smoke of battle, was none other than our own Ralph Records, and behind the firing line, watching nervously in his direction and ever giving aid to the wounded and loyal to her commander, was Anita Dunn. 27

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The Senior Will (By N. I. W.) We, the members of the Senior Class of the Northwestern State Normal School, of the City of Alva, of the State of Oklahoma, being of sound and disposed mind and memory — do hereby revoke and make void any and all other wills, at any time heretofore made by us. And we do desire our execu- tors, hereinafter named, to pay all our just debts, funeral expenses and ex- penses incidental to our departure as soon as the said memory of our leaving is so soothed as to permit. Item: We give, devise and bequeath to our beloved fellow Juniors, 1,246.311 1-4 duly written and corrected lesson plans, together with 154 well taught, trained and lovable model school children, to be entrusted lovingly to your tender mercies, together with four well-meaning, kind-hearted critics to be duly your own without contest or dispute, and in addition thereto all privileges of passing in and out of the Science Hall doors on the East and West side of said hall on the first floor of said building. Furthermore ; all lectures, regarding methods, discipline, special peda- gogy, and mudsills, hereto all entertainment of grade children at special chapels, to assist home institutions, namely, mills, bakeries, print shops; on excursions, picnics, and on any and all pleasure trips — for the children. The above-named items to be held as your own for all time until profitably dis-, posed of. Item — Section II. In addition to the above enumerated articles, we bequeath to you the epitome of exactness, through coaching culmination of pedagogical excellency Professor William Hugh Wood, as it were. Item — Section III. Furthermore we devise to you the painful hours of ' tis and ' taint at the merciless discretion of Professor Sloat. All privileges of enrollment, all re- served rights to produce a Senior play. All papers known, in the office of the above-named institution, as recommendation papers. Special privileges of making cowpaths across the campus of the here- tofore named institution in addition hereto, and with all due reverence the right of sitting in pairs while attending chapel exercises. Furthermore the first ten rows of seats in Section B in the Auditorium of the Northwestern State Normal School heretofore described. We do set our will and testament hereto, and do nominate our beloved class mother, Miss Heneretta Pyle, to be guardian of our worthy emulators, the Freshies of ' 16. In witness hereof we have set our hand and seal this twenty-third day of May, A. D. nineteen-fifteen. THE SENIOR CLASS OF ' 15. Signed, sealed, published and declared. 29