Western Kentucky University - Talisman Yearbook (Bowling Green, KY)

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EEE ——— ni Olrie Wandering, ever wandering, with no soul-sought goal in view, A moment here, a moment there; a pause, a step or two. Dormant, down among the ruins; blending dust with dust— Rising, slowly ever within me, falling, willed to fall again, earth-shunned rust; rust rusting rust— Vaguely, I watched the first star of evening, Rising neath the florid canopy of a lovely, lonely purple cloud, heavily, hovering there; I gazed, I languidly saw the cloud, I saw but did not care; I grimly grinned; reflecting, shrank—merging with the shadows I, deeply darkened, seem to share. Then, along the interminable passage of Time, that seemed to end with me, A gentle voice floated down—a chiming, rhyming sort of sound—voicing all that was, all that is, and all that is to be; “Make a wish! There’s the evening star: star light, star bright—;” came the silent soul-soft decree; My spirit groaned—I had no wish; what I was I long had been—in greying, decaying finality. Yet I arose to brush away the dwindling fragments and the clinging dust; And walking with a level chin, I drew on my shadow’s shadowy trust, And against my fear of the lengthening leer, of the approaching encroaching dusk, I mingled my shadow with the growing shadows—surrendered; the clinging loathsome husk. And the wandering cloud faded, blending with the night; The evening star was joined by a host to spangle the heavens with light. Charles A. Loudermilk, Jr. Tee SalReAGV, EER As I journey on this varying Highway of Life, Sometimes stretching forth inviting one to travel; Other times supplying acute bends and rocky surface And huge hills that I must exert all my strength to climb, Often when I travel on the Highway thus I am tempted to halt my journey; Lay down my troublesome load and rest myself. But I have heard stories of men like me I Who yielded to that impulse And who, once off the Highway, were lost in some forlorn forest, And never could resume their journey. S. E. Holland. Page twenty-one

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RACHEL RICHARDS FORBIS K. JORDAN, JR. MARGIE ACREE H. W. WOODWARD Junior, Barnes High School, Freshman, Ekron High School, Sophomore, Greensburg High Mt. Zion High School, Holland, Franklin, Ky., 1940. Ekron, Ky., 1946, School, Greensburg, Ky., 1945. Ky., 1941. CHARLES TRIGG HOOVER JUNE BAXTER FRANCES M. ARBOGAST Freshman, Austin Tracy High Sophomore, Morgantown High Special Student, Madisonville High | School, Barren Co., Ky., 1946. School, Morgantown, Ky., 1943. School, Madisonville, Ky., 1938 ae = | is SYLVIA PROCTOR JACK M. PEDIGO SARA J OYCE ALBERTA MABRY | Senior, Warren High School, Rock- Freshman, Edmonton High School, Sophomore, Milton High School, Sophomore, Cayce High School, field, Ky., 1943. Edmonton, Ky., 1943. Milton, Ky., 1945. Cayce, Ky., 1945. MRS. ELEANOR BABB DOROTHY JEAN BROWN MARGARET WILLIAMS Sophomore, Providence High Freshman, Centertown High Freshman, College High, Bowling School, Providence, Ky., 1944 School, Centertown, Ky., 1946. Green, Ky., 1946. REBECCA ROSS JOY DAVIS CARROLL BURKE HAROLD D, RICKETTS Sophomore, Drakesboro High Freshman, Bowling Green High Freshman, South Warren High Freshman, Palmyra High School, School, Drakesboro, Ky., 1945 School, Bowling Green, Ky., 1946. School, Rockfield, Ky., 1946. Palmyra, Nebr., 1941. J. D. TAYLOR DIANA WEATHERFORD JOE BAXTER Senior, Dixon tHigh School, Dixon, Freshman, Todd County High Freshman, Trimble County High Ky., 1941. School, Elkton, Ky., 1946. School, Bedford, Ky., 1944. ; FRANCES JEAN HODGES MALORIA PETTY AMELIA MEADOR Senior, Center High School, Cen- Freshman, Hartford High School, freshman, Breckinridge County ter, Kentucky, 1943. Hartford, Kentucky, 1946. raee School, WHardinsburg, Ky., 46. HELEN AGNEW RALPH CURRY LOIS FAY WESLEY Sophomore, Spottsvile High Junior, Cave City, Ky. Freshman, Frederick Fraize High School, Beals, Kentucky, 1945. School, Oloverport, Ky., 1945.

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