Wesleyan College - Veterropt Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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Margaret Evans Mrs. S. L. Akers Sponsor wecuil czJ fitetnaticnal Wesleyan University, May 1, 2037, (International Interview). Today your inter viewer attended the dramatic celebration of the close of the bi-centennial year ol the world-famous Wesleyan University, pioneer college for women, located hn»n in Macon, Georgia’s capital. In the auto-plane next to mine on Anderson field, recognized Miss Silver Smith, the very tale nted young actress of so many Theater Guild successes. She finished at Wesleyan this year, and she showed me something of the way the school is changing. “You see, my great-great-grandmother graduated here just 1(X) years ago—quite a coincidence. Before she died, the family had many Home Talkies made • her, and I feel almost as if 1 knew the quaint old lady. One of the happiest part of her life was that she spent here, and one of the pictures great-uncle caught secretly shows a conversation my great-grandmother and she were having about it. See. ' She flipped on her plane movie, and onto the dashboard screen came two charming ladies. But Mother, this wonderful class of ’37. It couldn’t have had everything. Well, we had our share anyway. And if 1 do say so we certainly ere J lucky bunch. We started off lucky. We had a swell class, and we liked each other. I can remember now just as well, trotting barefoot behind the Sophomores to m I harm, and getting lost all the time. Say what you want to against ratting, it » af Inn, (specially the Rat Court. We got syrup and eggs in our hair, and e yelled at. but we had fun and anybody that says—” IV1o,her ’ l,ul remember what the doctor said.” Vi ll, anyway, I was just saying we were lucky. We won the soccer, basket- -wric i uck . we wun ui — 7 ball and swimming championships. Kept them most of the time. When we were 1 mi P , !n01 n OSl an d the swimming pennant, and the soccer « u l inner Wa champion. And we started winning such thing? a ne paper contests too.’ 28

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Elliot Dunwoody, III Mascot tetview - 2037 J. “My, the junior year was fun! We won hack the things we had lost and got several others. Sarah and Birch wrote a cup-winning stunt. Grace was elected President of the Dramatic Club—as a mere Junior. We won the soccer and basketball cups, and we were feeling right versatile.” Her eyes gleamed brightly in the color film. “Remember Edward VIII, young British King, and the lovely Mrs. Simpson whom he abdicated for? Well, they were responsible for our keeping the stunt cup our Senior year. We had settled down a bit hut we still were young enough for sports. I’ll never forget that last basketball game—the Juniors came mighty near stopping our four-year record—mighty near—nor that soccer championship. “We had a good class, and our sponsor, Mrs. Akers, was a love. The Skull and Crossbones—and dear old Tri-K—could hardly have gotten along without I)r. and Mrs. Akers. “Then came the deluge of centennial celebrations. They were rather-er-colossal. But I wouldn’t have missed them for anything. We always had beautiful celebra¬ tions, we did. That last Thanksgiving banquet—” Her voice was growing misty. “It was so lovely. ‘We have come to the end of four perfect years.’ That is what we sang. 1 remember the tenor—and the toasts they gave to the Puritan maids. It was just swell, and your modern six-month term, and your travel and outside interests can never mean more to you than that did to me. Here Silver interrupted, “I’m sorry but I must leave. We fly at six for England. Great-great-grandmother was just to give you an idea. Well, so long. As her silver plane flashed toward Charleston, I thought about the difference in the Wesleyan of 100 years ago (when there was no international soccer champion and before it became the center of psychological and philosophical study) and this Wesleyan, and thought about this bright-haired child and her bright-voiced great- great-grandmother, and I wondered if underneath they weren’t a lot alike. —Special to the Veterropt by Rose Peagler. 29 A