Sullins College - Sampler Yearbook (Bristol, VA)

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ROSE lyr A.K. ' V EVA OGLESBY, B. S. HARRISBURG, N. C. “IVc’Il have a speech straight; come. Give us a taste of your quality; come, A passionate speech.” Eva is a great-hearted, generous girl — — a girl of prodigal kindness. She is marked by a powerful spirit of perserver- ance and a deal of pluck. Besides all this, she is gifted in the art of “dramatics.’ ' Such a girl could not fail to be a success. She has distinguished herself in a number of recitals and plays within the last three years, while she literally shone in the “School for Scandal.”

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RUBY McDowell, b. s. BRISTOL, TENNESSEE “Blit as ye know me, all, A plain, blunt man.” ing,” and is not content unless she is en- gaged in both. Her great ambition is to l)e a trained nurse. Well, she might make a good one, but we firmly believe that she would talk all her patients to death. As the above would imply. Ruby is given to frankness. Her frankness is not of the disagreeable sort, however, as is proved by her popularity. She has a genius for going straight to the center of things. She also has a talent for managing and “boss- 25

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o s E ]yr ! PCY SALLIE PORTER. A. B. RURAL RETKE. “W hat’s gone and Should be past Here is one of the jolliest girls in school. She is the life of the Erench class, and it is clue to her that that ancient institution, the ‘ ' dummy bench. received the dignity of a name. She has been an ornament of Sullins for three long years, and we feel sure that with the passing of iT, VIRGINIA what ' s past help her blonde head, half the light of this college will fade forever. Eor all her merriment, we suspect Sallie of cruelty — ■ we have reasons to believe that she designs to break the brotherly circle of a certain Bachelors’ Hall. She has but one regret — her eyes are not brown. 27