Sul Ross State University - Brand Yearbook (Alpine, TX)

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©THE® BRAND Lament for The Freshman Flag I weep for the Freshman flag—it is stolen! Oh, weep for the Freshman flag though all our tears Dissolve not the vault which conceals so dear a token! And thou, sad Day, selected from all years To bring such loss, rouse thy obscure compeers And teach them thine own sorrow! Say: “With me Passed the Freshman flag; till the Future day Forget the Past, its fate and loss shall be A solemn warning unto such impropriety! ” Where wert thou, 0 McKay, when fled that flag? Where wert thou on the day of that sad flight When fled thy flag despite thy idle brag? Where was George Livingston through all the fight That turned the Freshman day to darkest night? Mid all that strife with helpless, staring eyes He lay, nor could he move him left or right While calmly Chancey sat; in vain he tries llis strength ’gainst stronger hands while Sophs secure their prize. O thou great fish, beautiful as thou art, Why didst thou leave thy faithful Freshman fold So soon, when with frail hands but mighty heart They dared to hoist thee on our school flag pole? Defenceless as thou wert, out in the cold, Thy native instincts sadly were perturbed; Surely the fish pond was thy proper goal! It made, thou couldst have lived there undisturbed; Its narrow bounds thy wandering spirit would have curbed. © © But weep not for the flag as though ’twere dead Though from thy hand that sacred emblem’s torn, It rests e’en now within a vault of lead, Where it by tender Sophomore hands was borne. Fish, to the sea! Here thou must be forlorn. Why did the Freshmen choose for thee this place? On desert land no fish was ever born. May this teach Freshmen not to haste their pace, And be a warning stern to all their upstart race! —Edith Harford, Sophomore Class 1 8

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©THE® BRAND DAISY MAE FULCHER Alpine, Texas “Happy am I; from care I’m free! Why ar’nt they all contented like me?” Freshman work in S. R. N. C. Member of the Sachem Literary Society. DENNIS LANDRY Lafayette, La. “Onward with the world, desponding never, Round and around, but onward ever,” Freshman work in Southwest Louisiana Institute, Lafayette. Yell Leader of S. R. N. C. Sergeant-at-Arms of the Sophomore Class. (MRS.) GEORGIA SMTTHER, Alpine, Texas “Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.” Freshman work in S. W. U., Georgetown. President of the Sachem Literary Society. EL VIE FULCHER Alpine, Texas “Her heart was as great as the world. But there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.” Freshman work in West Texas State Normal College and in S. R. N. C. Member of Sachem Literary Society. MILDRED THOMSON Fort Stockton, Texas “To know her is to love her And love but her forever, For Nature made her what she is And never made another.” Freshman work at University of Texas, Austin. President of the Class. Vice-President of Sachem Literary Society. MELVIN SLOVER Alpine, Texas “Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.” Freshman work in S. R. N. C. LOUISA MONTGOMERY Centreville, Mississippi A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady. Freshman work in Belhaven College. Jackson, Mississippi. Secretary of class. Class representative of THE BRAND. Member of Sachem Literary Society. Secretary of the Mask and Slipper Club. @