Northwestern State University - Potpourri Yearbook (Natchitoches, LA)

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Couisiana State formal School .Alumni Association OFFICERS Mr. J. M. Barham, Marksville, La President Mr. Ben Johnson, Mansfield, La Vice President Miss Dean E. Varnado, Natchitoches, La. . Secretary and Treasurer BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mr. W. J. Avery Winnfield, La. Mrs. Alice Martin Wallace Shreveport, La. Mrs. Georgia McMurdo Jones Baton Rouge, La. Mr. Y. L. Fontenot Ville Platte, La. President V. L. Roy Natchitoches, La. « Tb )z TAbbf X. Smitt) TLoan Ifcxinb of ) Louisiana State formal School Alumni Association iHE Alumni Association of the Normal School maintains a fund known a? the Abby L. Smith Loan Fund, from which temporary loans are made to the students in the three last terms of the Nor- mal Course. Only those persons who have already been students of the school and have proved their intellectual and moral fitness for the teaching work can secure loans from this fund. They pledge themselves to repay such loans out of their first year ' s earning, after graduation, at six per cent interest. At the meeting of the Alumni Association in New Orleans in April, 1913, the Abby L, Smith scholarship maintained by the Alumni Association since 1897 was discontinued. This scholarship paid the entire expenses of one student at the Normal School, and by means of it nine young women were educated and sent into schools of the State. All funds of the Alumni As- sociation, including the Five Thousand Dollar Alumni Loan Fund, havi been merged into a general fund, known as the Abby L. Smith Loan Fund. This fund is now approximately four thousand four hundred dollars. Out of this the Alumni has helped between eighteen and twenty students dur- ing the session of 1914-15. More than a hundred and fifty students have received financial aid through loans.

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should friend.- and schoolmates be forgol When teaching days begin? Should friends and echoolmatea be forgot, And days at L s. N.v Chow For L S. X.. my dear : For L S. N.; We ' ll talk of all the happy dayi We spent at L. S. N. We ' ve gone now out into the State. Fresh laurels there to win ; Bui the way seems long and wear] -dnce Our days at L S. N. Let ' s take a cup 0 kindness now, Ere farewells shall begin, In hopes we .ill shall meet some daj At dear old L. S. N. (CATHERINE PHASES. be (Bra6uatc5 farewell i (). how sad mid the sunshine that gladdens this BCene Comes the thought that BO soon we must part : That the bonds which true friendship has ever kept green Must he severed in March in the heart ; That we meet in this place of our school days so dear. As we faithfully meet to the la-t ; That we never again in Assembly Hall here Be united in songfl of the pa-t ' But how gladly our thoughts will return to the spot Where we spent many happy school days! And our hearts will rejoice while we cherish the lot That our mem ' ry with us through life stays. Farewell to our school and farewell to our friends. Who have lighted our pathway with cheers. Though to-day we must part, our hearts will remain Filled with thoughts of them all through the years. WlI.MA K. 1 1 It 1

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yUv .first Kmpression of the 5tormal evi:i; vnoHY has his trials and tribulation! and m i. m i Fresbie at th Nor mal. had mine the train puffed into Nat ' 01) friend and I nibbed our suit-cases and hurried out lust as i stepped orr tbe train, s whom I afterwards discovered was Mr. WInstead) grabbed mj luit-caai l. thinking he was a thief, relied stop him. stop him! Bui l was soon assured bj Mr South thai ! ■ and Mr Wlnstead wen Normal teachers who hail meel us. Mr South then brought us up to the Normal s W( passed through the hall to Mrs Hawkins room, we saw loads popping out from back Of doors. Btepo, windows, etc., and heard remarks such as then Isn ' t that a iunn ha Her skirts too short ' w onder II tbi j ■ Thej look pn M w. stood tins. «t i remarks as Freshiee should, and meekl] walked into Mrs Hawkins room, followed by a curious crowd of -iris. it . r we registered, Mrs Hawkins asked us if we would like son • it was then 9:30 I ' M. and we had had nothing to sal sinct 12 o ' clock; hut i was so fright- ened I faltered out: ' hank y-o-u. Hut i was Immediate]] brought to mj senses bj several rigorous pokes in the hack with Take it. you greeny! if you don ' t want it. give it to ma Mrs Hawkins said, as we had no bedclothes, she would gel Bomt of the cjris to t ;i kt us in for the olght So saying, she showed us Boyd Hull, and said Go to No 51 and teii them I saj to take jrou in for the night. We went and knocked at th door of No Entering, to the Invitation f a loud Come! we heard an uproar of, Freshiee, Freshiee! and two of the uiris rusiod at us. Pinning us each to the door by the throat, ti Because II i can ' t stay in here, because there are three ' Mar s ' in hen now When we had assured them that we wen not Marys, ' the) released their e.rasp, Dg ii- a i hair, tiny all screamed Have yOU anytl Si in your suite;. titer eatli srythlng they could find, a otblng, tbej ask- d as a d questions and told us as many more things ahout the Normal dm among them Bald when the Ughl bell rang, we all had to kneel around Ho table for pray rs So when the hell ran::, we both rushed and knell down Inside the table Soon w. lot ahout to see when tin others were. The) were in bed, screaming with laughter We then that it was only a joke, ami sbeeplsbl) go1 in bed After i had crawled in. i remembered that my purse, with nil m] money, was on tin and I said ( ' .iris, is tin Well, What on earth dO yOU want to know that for at 11 ocl Weil, if it is. I win have to i r. s- ami go ami deposil my money; for the catali Deposit your money Immediately upon arrival. ' tnid screams ol laughter, the) assured m thej would oo1 iteal m money thai night, If I would just hush am: deep. Zn l LaWSABOS Tap ' leii in.- n. .t tn mournful numl Lin fi remind - ' ■ Mill . W I Hint Minn Vnd - r. — • 1 1 •«» • ti.i methlng mi Hon Hnw I..-I i up iin.i a -Mlllll it lon ' i i ' II ■ , he ' ll hSVi -in .ill Mill i limn in