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POTPOURRI -:s— The Theme of Our Book THE 1928 Potpourri has for its theme the history of the Campus. The staff in selecting this theme did not stop at the date of the founding of the Louisiana Normal in 1884. They went even farther back than the archives of the old records of St. Denis, founder of Natchitoches. They have traced the history of the Campus from the time the peace-loving Natchitoches Indians hunted the fleet- footed deer and built their wigwams on the ridges of the picturesque Pine Hills, in which the college is nestled. Nor in their tracing have they forgotten the pirate who scoured the shores of the muddy Red in those days before the hand of civilization had rested upon sunny Louisiana. They have traced the French headed by St. Denis, that gallant Frenchman who built a fort here in sight of the college campus in 1714, the first white settlement in the original Louisiana Purchase. The Spanish, too, and their bartering with the Indians have a place in the book along with the French. The pleasant, carefree plantation days are also depicted by the plantation mammy who sings the favorite spirituals of the Old South, as she cheerfully labors for ole Missus and Marster. Then came the days of strife and of war between the states when the old plantation home was sold to the Sacred Heart Nuns who established a convent on the present site of the Campus. Many gray clad wounded soldiers of the Battle of Mansfield were nursed back to health by the nuns at the old convent. As the state prospered after the Civil War, the Convent was purchased by the state in 1 884 and the State Normal School of Louisiana founded. To portray vivid- ly the forty-four years history of the college during which time more than six thousand students have been graduated from the Normal, styles in dress of the last four decades are being used. In order to depict all these stages of history, the staff of the annual has elected the most typical co-eds of the college who will introduce various sections of the book. Co-eds depicting various stages of history on the Louisiana State Normal College Campus are Eva Firestone, Indian Princess; Hazel Cooper, Pirate; Minnie Griffin, French; Alice Johnston and Ellene Cook, Spanish; Lily McKnight, Negro Mammy; Gladys Wasson, Nun; Frances May, Co-ed of 1888; Helen Cain, Co-ed of 1898; Neva Knighton, Coe-ed of 1908; Cecil Singleton, Co-ed of 1918; Mabel Callender, Co-ed of 1928; and Marion Dormon, Snap Shots, Today. ir 1928
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Page 16 text:
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POTPOURRT Those Friends of Long Ago By Kearnie Keegan, ' 27 When you re sittin ' in the evenin As the quiet shadows fall, An the birds in the tree tops, Are a-chirpin their soft call. An the minds a-fyind a-sighin An singin soft and lorv— That ' s when you think of friendships. Of those friends of long ago. When you re rvalkin in the moonlight ' Neath the moonbeams mellorv gleam, An you listen to the drippin An the babblin of the stream. An you Wonder as you ' re Tvab in, Jus ' Tvanderin ' long the sho ' , If they ever, ever think °f V ou Those friends of long ago. When you tvaf e up in the mornin As the sun comes up from rest. An it starts its daily journey From East toward the West, There ' s a question you ' d be asking; The answer you ' d like to k n °u) ' Where are ' those dear ole Normal friends, Those friends of long ago? 1928
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