samuel candler dobbs

Special Alumnae Edition
VOLUME IX.
LaGrange College, LaGrange,
SAMUEL CANDLER DOBBS Our
Newest Club at Tifton,
Ga., Is Organized by
LaGrange Alumnae
NUMBER VI
New
Our Alumnae
A Message from
Faculty Members
In Missions
Our President
Weston L. Murray, Head of the'
History department came to us this
The first L. C. student to do misVirginia Atkinson, '80. TO THE ALUMNAE
Wherever your lot may be cast
year from Texas having received an : who has aernd in China forty years'
. _ . _
.
_
a ong period of devotion to the woVT _.,
in whatever clime you may come to
A. B. degree from North Texas . men of, that
.. , country.
Last month at Tifton, Ga., a group Teachers College, his Masters degree (...Ellen (Barrett) Carney, '84, spent live, however dear your friends may
| some years in Mexico under the Wo-1 become, you cannot escape the memof six loyal LaGrange College women University of Texas.
In
his
home
town
he
was
Superin-'
mans Board., of.. Foreign.. Missions, ory or put from you the recollection
were called together by Ethel (Johnwhere death
tendent
of
City
Schools,
President
of
j
interrupted her task-.... | of the days that are gone; some
son) Puckett and the LaGrange AluAnnie
Ca
h
local
P.
T.
A.,
Chairman
of
County
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f '97 <*« class kindly word, some friendly face,
mnae Club of Tifton was organized
| news) served m China.
Teachers Assoc.at.on, Superintendent ( Jn Cuba_ a mmher of Qur Alumnae I some joyous experience will come to
with Mrs. Puckett president.
We are hoping to hear that other of Sunday School, and Chairman of have contributed to the mission work you like the echo of a word that has
such groups of LaGrange Alumnae an interdenominational Bible class of our church- For different Periods traveled to far distant shores, and
the following have served as teach- you will dwell again for a fleeting,
will thus prove their loyalty and for men.
Katharine Wilson, Head of Langu- ers in mission schools: Estelle (Ho- moment in those ancient days.
faith in L. C.
ward) Clements '94 and Annie Zu
Let me wish that the background
A valuable addition to this group age department received her A. B. (Dillard) Stipe '06- Both of these
this summer will be Catharine Chest- degree from North Carolina College have gone to their reward, j^ Cot. J of all those happy memories shall be
nutt of this year's graduating class, for Women, her Masters and Ph. D. ton) Ellis '02, Mary (Fox) Sitton '18,' the old campus and the time-worn
degrees from University of North (Edith (Lupton) Hunt '11, Mary Hill buildings of L- C, the dear mother
whose home is in Tifton.
Carolina. She had the honor to be!<Moore) Neal 'n and Kate Jenkins of you all whose every achievement
7 th last two stiU
\
,
representing L- brings Pride to her heart and in
(? '.
The first link in the chain that bound Samuel Candler Dobbs chosen with a group of fifty selected''Cm
the island republic,
whose happiness she claims a deep,
to LaGrange College was his marriage to Mary Ruth Mixon of the students to attend a course of study Jewell Jones '06, with her husband
this summer at the American Aca- Henry A- Willy is serving in Hawaii and abiding interest.
class of '86, two years after ner graduation from our College.
Cordially yours,
representing L. C. in the mission
As years went by there must have come to him a growing damy in Rome, Italy.
W. E. Thompson.
work
of
the
Episcipal
church.
oOo
appreciation of our school. His visits to the old Hill revealed to
Ellie Gray, an A. B. and music
-oOohim the ever present Christian influence, the obligations and
graduate of '98 represented her Alma
ideals of service, so impressed upon the students that whether
Mater in Korea until a few years
noon native soil or foreign fields, LaGrange graduates have.out- After seven years service as Libr- aeo she retted because of home
arian, LaGrange College has grown circumstances.
standingly served.
(Carrie Parks—1883.)
to
think
of
Carrie
Fall
Benson
as
her
Leta
Price,
'08
represented
LaReturning Alumnae see on all sides evidences of the love and
GranKe in
It has been said that the test of
mission school work among
thoughtfulness of this friend of ours. Our grounds have been very own though she was educated
the investment in a college lies in the
„
,the
Indians
of
Montanaenlarged by a western extension reaching to Maidee St. The ef- at our sister college, the "Southern '! Maidie Smith, A. B- and music value of its alumnae to the communi<»__j,„f„ of
„e <on
ii_ missionary
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ficiency of the Music department has been greatly increased by Alma Mater of many' of LaGrange s .graduate
'87 vi
blazedJ the
ty.
most
distinguished
daughters.
!
trail
in
Brazil
for
LC
girlsMamie
the addition cf one grand piano and five uprights. Mr. Dobbs'
The passing of Mrs. Luke Johnson
Her duties fail to suppress her Fenley, '07 and Daisy Pyle of the
interest and thoughtfulness extends to every department. His
marked
the end of a life that scored
spark of genius, her charming bits same class have married American
gift of a radio to the college family is a constant joy to faculty
ml sionaries and are
of verse delighting us as they ap-, f
continuing their high in every test of usefulness to
and students. The newly finished Warren A. Candler Home
i
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,
,
;
religious
work
in
South
America
r
pear n columns of local papers.
'
^ her family, her church, her country.
should luxuriously house presidents and their families for gen_,..,.
.
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„. I those tw0 were born In Bsazil but
She was one of the few women
erations to come. For the Alumnae, he is financing the newly But it is as a Playwright that Miss educated at Grange and later gra- honored with membership in the
Benson has won her greatest distinc-' duating at Scarrit College, both workmade office of Alumnae Secretary.
council of the National Inter-racial
as full missionaries before and
These and his other kindnesses would alone endear Mr. tion, two of her plays being ap- ing
af
proved by the Carolina Players-— ter marriage. Lizzie MurPhy, a Commission in which her untiring inDobbs to all of us who love the College, but what we even more namely "The Fiddlin Feller" and music Sraduate of '07 was for five terest and deep sympathy for other
appreciate is his heart interest in every department, his interest
"Timbers." Her
play, "Decorous lem B*5!h,« as Piano teacher in races made her a valuable member.
in our grounds, our beloved old trees, every inch of the old Hill Days" was received most enthusias- B.ra7;'nL thlS Past year *one to her re' To quote in part from Mrs. Alvaward.
G- Maxwell in the Wesleyan Christover which he so often walks.
tically when Presented by the Junior
Dr. Susan Willard Brown, alumna
And now comes from Mr. Dobbs a challenge to our apprecia- class in Decemberian Advocate "The Womans Misof L. C. '12, of Scarritt College, and
tion of his generosity, a challenge to our love and our faith in the
1 sionary Society of the M- E- Church,
of a Philadelphia Medical School, re-OQOfuture of LaGrange College.
presents our college in the field of South,in Georgia mourns its most
Whatever sum of money our Alumnae can raise, Mr. Dobbs
staggering and irreplacable loss in
medicine in China.
Following
the
missionary
trail,
history, for this woman was the out
promises to double it. Surely no alumna or friend of the College
Mary
Floyd
is
now
at
Scarritt
Colj
In
silver
plumes
of
river
mist,
standing individual figure in the miswould miss having a part in so great an opportunity. Never belege working on her Masters degree ' sionary enterprize;
In moonlight on a young birch
substantially,,
fore could your donation have meant so much. Your gift cf one
PrerJartory for service some where in'
tree,
constructively
and
spiritually.
dollar means two dollars; your five hundred means one thousand In sunset coral, amethyst,
the Kingdom.
Mrs- Luke Johnson—a devoted and
-every cent to be applied toward a greater LaGrange College.
Beauty shows herself to me.
-OQObeloved wife and mother; an effecient, consecrated help' meet in the
She whispers when the wind blows by
placed for you and your class-mates.
' In ecstasy I see her pass
parsonage; student, philosopher, leadThese special reunions are to be
In fleeing clouds across the sky,
I
er. Possessor of rare spiritual incoincident with the usual annual re- 1
At the annual meeting of AmeriIn long, low ripples through the
A schedule of reunions has been union to which every alumna is
sight and power that would make
i
grass. can Association of University Proworked ont for our Alumnae accord- most cordially invited to attend. It |
Ifessors at ChaPel Hill, N- C, Bu- many a crowned head envy, yet withing to the Dix System which brings is earnestly hoped that every alum- The lowliest of the stars that shine ford Johnson, '95 was one of two wo- al, a gentle, unassuming, loveable woback groups of classes, which were jna and former student will plan to
men elected members of the Council- man, who built and suffered and died
May bead her gracious diadem,
come back and make this our best
| Since her graduation at LaGrange, for purely unselfish and altruistic
together in college, once every five
And any clinging leaf or vine,
reunion. Among those already notiMay catch and hold her garment's Buford has received degrees of M. services.—Death calls, but a Personyears. The following classes due to fying their coming are Macie (Speer)
A. and Ph. D., at John Hopkns UniI
hem:
meet this commencement:—1892, 18- iCoPeland, Lilly (Coggins)
ality like hers never dies!
Out of
Jones,
versity, where she is now Professor
Ethel
(Johnson)
Puckett,
Eula
(Beau93, 1894, 1895 and 1911, 1912, 1913,
the dark they guide and let think of
of Psychology.
rhamp). Meacham. .Rosa (Callahan) But I. whose heart must break to
this in the grave ays of readjustment
1914. . i ■
Buford
also
has
the
distinction
of
I
sing
i-assiter,
Kate
(Moss)
Cleekler,
Lina
ahea—even now, I can catch an echo
Please let the Alumnae Secretary
One perfect song in Praise of her, being editor of a new journal devottBrazill) Trimble.
Nell (Smith)
(Miss Julia Bradfield, LaGrange, Ga)
ed to pctMatric. psychological, nu- of' her voice, all filled with heavenPursue her still, a lovely thing,
know if there is a Prospect of your Nichols, Loulie . ^Hardwick) -^Ghand- I Elfin and fleet and gossamer.
tritional, physiological and anatomi- ly sweetness as she pleads, face to
cal field—and something else—under fac, with the Father for us, those she
coming before the date, May 24th., ler, Mary Lee (Edwards) Everette,
Carrie Fall Benson
left behind to "Carry On."
1930, so that special tables may be . and Cora (Tuck) Morton.
Librarian. LaGrange. College the name of Child Development.
sion work was
Our Librarian
Mrs. Luke Johnson
Beauty
Reunion Schedule
Honor To An
L. C. Alumna
LaGrange College.
THE SCROLL
April, 1930.
THE SCROLL
THE MAIDIE SMITH
Published monthly by the Quill Driver's Club of LaGrange College.
Entered at Postoffice at LaGrange,
Ga., as second class mail matter,
January 29, 1922, under act of
March 3, 1879.
Subscription rate, fifty cents a semester.
KDITORIAL STAFF
May Beall Yancey—Editor-in-Chief.
Louise Tray lor—Advertising mgr.
• Pauline Roberts—Ass't. Adv. Mgr.
Louise Leslie—Business Mgr.
' Gordo Davis—Circulation Mgr.
Elizabeth Moss—Proof Reader.
■ Dorothy Neal—Feature Editor.
"Elizabeth Merritt—Joke Editor.
Catherine Chestnutt, Mildred Stipe.
REPORTERS
-Hixie Gentry, Mary Alice Halbrook,
Alice Bird, Mary Walker, ElizCOLLEGE DIRECTORY
Class Presidents:
Senior—Mary Alice Halbrook.
Junior—Carolyn Hairston.
Sophomore—Alleyn Boyle.
Freshman—Rebecca Hart.
Special-^Elwyn Wallace.
ORGANIZATIONS
Y. W. C. A.—Helen Walker.
Student Body—Catherine Chestnutt.
Athletic Ass'n.—Agnes Richardson.
Quill Drivers'—May Beall Yancey.
Mabel Henslee—Alumnae Editor
ALMA MATER
Hail to thee, our Alma Mater;
Guardian of our days;
For thy spirit, never failing,
We wculd sing thy praise.
High aloft we hold thy banner,
Ever loyal, true;
Hail to thee, our Alma Mater,
Hail to th~e, LaGrange.
In thy mighty grove of learning,
Wisdom's path we've sought;
High upon thy lofty hilltop
Visions have been wrought.
"~rom our hearts we sing the chorus.
Let the sound prolong!
Hail to thee, our Alma Mater,
Hail to thee, LaGrange.
"Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May" TO THE ALUMNAE
-Miss Lenora Newsome
AND FORMER STUDENTS.
Special Alumnae
Edition
By
"Love is the Proof, Sweetness the
Blossom, and Kindness the Fruit
of True Virtue"
—Miss Maude Erdman.
"Somebody"
—Miss Jimmie Page-
I*GRANGE COLLEGE ALUMNAE
ASSOCIATION
"$500.00 Reward"
—Miss Rebekah Wagner.
(Thrower) Bu-
President, Teresa
chanan.
First Vice-President, Mary (Park)
Polhill.
:
Second Vice-President, Ruby (Newsom) CampbellTreasurer, Kathren (Young) Freeman.
Recording Secretary, Lena (Terrell) Weaver.
Corresponding Secretary, Evelyn
Whitaker.
"Life's Grand Possibilities"
—Miss Gussie Zimmer.
"We Live in Deeds Not Words"
--Miss Mary Bell Evans (Mrs. Seals)
"Distance Lends Enchantment"
—Miss Alice Godwin.
Have you joined the Alumnae Club
nearest you? Are you a regular attendant and paying annual dues? Is
there a groujpf of six or more L- C
Alumnae and Students in your county who might be organized into a
club? The Alumnae Secretary would
be glad to come and help you in organization and working out plans.
Your Alma Mater needs your influence in your community, needs this
expression of your faith in your
schoolOn all sides we hear complaints
of "wrong addresses, mistakes as to
vital statistics in our annual Bulletin. With our Alumnae scattered
to the four winds in this day of "a
mighty going to and fro," the college
office would do well to maintain an
even approximate account of its graduates- So let us the Alumnae, keep
the college office informed of our
addresses, correcting any mistakes we
know- Will every graduate and former student fill out these blanks and
send to Julia Bradfield Alumnae Secretary.
AIUMNAE
PARAGRAPHS.
Do you realize that the Alumnae
is the only permanent body connected with the College? Boards, faculties, Presidents come and go, the
Alumnae is the only body made up of
life members.
The reading of compositions was
confined to one day and hence there
were members of both the Junior and
Senior classes on the Program for
the morning. After Prayer, the Junior readers were announced, their
subjects' given below:
"Modern Delusions"
—Miss Dora Boykin (Mrs. Maffet)
"Chasing Butterflies"
—Miss Maria Bass.
"The best men belong."—John A.
Lomax, Texas.
"The Purpose of every alumni association should be, to substitute organized alumni loyalty for unorganized good will and to secure the
maximum of
efficiency."—E. BJohnson, Minnesota-
If all alumnae were just like me,
what kind of college would ours be?
Miss Mary Poythress (Mrs. Barnard) Graduating date of class with which
When a man leaves money to a
you attended
' College it proves he is more interested in "heads" than head stones—
"Do It Yourself"
A bequest to a college is the nearest
—Miss Sallie Cotter (Mrs. Reaves)
If married, husbands name
you can come to finding the "fountain of youth". It can be founded—
Truth Crushed to Earth Shall Rise Names of two close friends among but found.-Rolliins College Record.
Again,
—Miss Carrie Pitman Alumnae who will always know your
(Mrs. G. W. Truitt)
address
"LaGrange College has literally
been built on faith and love and sacrifice and is in as great need of
'From Shore to Shore"
these today as ever before."-^Sam—Annie Curtwright,
(Mrs. W- G. McClure.) Corrections n Bulletin
Candler Dobbs.
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For some time it has been the desire of the Alumnae to give some
tangible expression of their love and
admiration for Maidie Smith and it
was Susie (Ogletree) Denny, President of local Alumnae club, who conceived the idea of a formal garden
to be the gift of the Alumnae to the
College in honor of this beloved woman.
To tell of all the work that, since
last fall, has been done by Mrs. Denny and her garden committee would
fill several Scrolls. But it has been
a work of love and every hour spent
in the making of this beauty spot
has been a real joy to all who were
privileged to have a part in this
service.
Never before into a garden was
there Poured such a wealth of love
and sentiment- Donations of evergreens, shrubs, bulbs have come from
old and young Alumnae and the student body- The Dramatic club are to
give a bird bath next month. From
Aley (Smith) Bodie's (class of 1859)
old home, her daughter has given
boxwoods to border the stone benches- Mary Johnson (class of 1933)
has given some old-fashioned flowering shrubs that came from the home
of her grandmother, Frances (Ward)
Johnson (class of 1857). A pussywillow is the gift of Lula Ward (class
of 1874). And so the gifts continue
to come in until the Garden has over
flowed. The terraces, the drive ways,
every side of the old Hill will soon
be blossoming with this out pouring
of love for this daughter of Uncle
Rufus.
ooo
OLD FASHIONED FLOWERS
An L. C- Alumna who earns her living by teaching sent a letter with
Alumnae Secretary, Julia Bradfield
The Senior Class.
check for $25.00 stating: "The enLaGrange College, LaGrange, Ga. Man's Life is All a Mist and in the
closed does not mean I am flushed,
Dark Our Fortunes Meet Us,
Maiden Name
oOo
but
I want to form the habit of send—Miss Willie Pitman,
COMMENCEMENT FIFTY-SEVEN
(Mrs. W. R. Bradfield) Permanent Address (if same as in ing something each Feburary to my
YEARS AGO.
College.
From LaGranKe Reporter, July 11,
Bulletin, write "same")..
1873"Moral Heroism"
LaGranpe Female College Commencement Exercises-
GARDEN
Who named for us the old-fashioned
posies,
The "lemon lilies" and "cinnamon
roses?"
Who found such endearing names for
them
As "ragged Robin," and "Sweet Allyssum," and "star of Bethlehem"
Perhaps some gentle, silver-haired
lady,
Strolling by boxed Paths sheltered
and shady,
Her thoughts turned back to some
dear lost tryst,
Found a flower, a sad sweet flower,
•and named it 'Love-in-a-mist."
Did some beggar maid in the roadside
heather
First name in its gay pride the
"prince's feather?"
Did she turn, a smile on her wistful
face,
To name in its beauty, its clinging
beauty, the delicate "Queen
Anne's lace?"
Who named them all . . . some quaint
old story
Lives in "blue bottle" and "morning
glory,"
And there sprang immortal from
fancy's fountain
Names such as "bleeding heart,"
"Asphodel," "Snow on the
mountain."
■Carrie Fall-Benson
1-aGrange College.
FOREWORD
THE SCROLL
~ 1859.
April, 1930.
1862.
1859.
| mother speak with a great deal of afMary (Sheppard) Kirksey had her
On the twenty-sixth of last Decem-| Mary (Godwin) Cotton, loyal mem-1 ectlon of y0" mother (Emma Pit. ... I romance during the war clouded years ber, Aley (Smith) Boddie, who for ber of LaGrange Alumnae Club and of
_, her
, rac,,
' and otner members
The many shortcomings of this
I
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.,,_
*ss at LaRwTiir."
LaGrange.'
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that followed her graduation and seventy years has been unfaltering the one link that connects us with
special Alumnae Edition are due to
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married a young doctor of her home. in her devotion to the College, was the historic, early sixties, during
the greenness of the new Alumnae
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town, Columbus. After his death, she borne from her stately colonial home which time our College so bravely
1871.
Secrtary and her hither-to- ignorance
took
her three children to Cuba an(j carrjed along the old box xorder- carried on- Being gifted as raconteur
of newspaper work—she now thinks
Janie (Barber) Truitt writes: "I
where she lived until her return to ed walk to that quiet, sacred corner her wonderful memory, especially
she could edit a Sunday New York
am glad to say I was born and rearU- S- two years ago, since then re- of the grove where
when in reminiscing mood, makes her
Times.
,
siding
most interesting. She tells us of the ed in Washington, Ga., and also glad
6 in Miami- Its hard to believe
"The names she loved to hear
It-was intended that every alumna
y
lPoma
that this charming little woman with
Have been carved for many a vear sirls of those days, representing el- r „~__
_ ,
from
should be asked for an account of
|
^Grange
College".
It
was
while she
her pretty brown eyes and not a
On the tombs"
even states; how they studied Latin,
herself—that this was not done is
attended the Seminary in Washinggray hair, graduated from our colHere under the shade of century- French, Philosophy, Chemistry and
largely due to above named causeslege seventy three years ago. She old oaks, she awaits a glorious re- Mathematics; the Music department ^wa" eL ' ^^ ^"^ ^
In some cases due to illness of secspeaks of her college days with such union in the skies of old class-mates, under Prof. Briggs of New York, of: ,??** ' ^^ P**8"^ of LaGrange
retaries and misunderstandings.
«.
>. . J•
-i «o°°1JeSe and when he moved to
Law lja
familiarity that one can almost see old friends and love ones.
the out standing voice pupils "Sissy'«_ „
From the wealth of interesting
GranEe ra
wna
IT
w
v
•
u
i__L
ost
of
the
class
moved
with
the old barouches, over flowing with
Forbes, whose voice has never been , .
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T
material that came in the secretary
oOo
i , in
• TLaGrange".
n
„Looking
..
i un....
' In **at same year there
re ntmc
came
voluminous skirt of ante bellum
equaled
at
was embarassed as to what should he
a E,rl to the
1860.
w
«. • old
u dagguerrotypes
A c
.
u would
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college whom she rebelles as the courtly Planters of that
their
who
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appropriated for another Scroll could
, members as wearing pretty clothes
romantic day drove up the Hill bringEvery LaGrange girl will read with ever suspect those L.C. students of
be filled with material that lack of
ing their daughters to take on higher interest and pride the following from the "60's" of being anything but most and receiving many boxes from home.
space caused us to cut out"She did all the eating, we were the
education, to study art, voice and Fannie (Johnson) McBride (Mrs. A- du*ifully minded and of decorons beW e (speaking editorially) feel
onlookers, nothing was ever offered
piano-forte even then LaGrange out J-):—'Recollections of my student havior. But Mary Gowin has'nt fordeeply grateful for the good help
(we hope L- C. helped her!) One day
days at dear old LaGrange College, Botten the pranks of those Prim lookgiven by the_ class secretaries in standing in these opportunities.
my room-mate, Sue DuBose, said
She remembers the village with and my class mates an other friends ing "females". Once when a group
gathering thisi news- We hope they
'Jinnie' come see whats on that door'
them ass
embled for class, it was It was this—
will forgive us for leaving out so the beautiful homes and tells of a there are among the most cherished "*
d
the
Professor was absent.
much that was interesting — some "Mr. Ben Hill, a Confederate soldier, memories of my life. LaGrange Col-,55™ JJf
There is a gr] in our College
who had a lovely place near the Col- lege, in the ante bellum days, had
reaching us too late for publication.
Who has more aPPetite than
lege and his little son who used to higher curriculum than any other feknowledge"
wave at the girls from over the fen- male college in Georgia and graduoOo
"I
wonder who wrote that"!
,0t
a
ce."
«* old sty,e hJVZ
^^
ates from the other Georgia colleges
h
Time passed, I married Nathan
And the girls—she describes their came there to take a higher course
"Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
a
Wylie Truitt whose mother was Nandresses with paroda waists and very which was termed at that time the
And never brought to mind"
nie Callaway, thereby gaining a net
full skirts over hooPs; their hats tied "Resident Graduate Course" I have ned by ^ decorous mJ
work of relative lives. After my hus1857always taken Pride in this fact.
under their chins with ribbons.
J* the ™-or! Apparent bands death came the necessity for
no notice of the nnDa8ui
There were two buildings, the Home
On my last birthday I passed into
Frances Andrews, our eldest living
earning a living. My lifelong friend,
P.cture
qUe seene, he ^
S
and
the
College
building,
its
beautimy
89th
year.
My
life
has
been
graduate, author, scientist, college
Judge William Reese said 'Knowing
Professor—in each role an honor to ful columns the Pride of the town. \ Messed with many dear friends and I menced the lesson and sent the dress
your advantages, I advise you do
her Alma Mater—is one of Georgia's, Mr. Conner, a minister was president have Perhaps had my due share of UP neS t0 the
°
^ for recitations school work. I did so, continuing in
most gifted daughters. In the years and the Home over flowed with girls happinessremaining deaf to all their entreaties
the work until my own children were
following her graduation she very from many states.
The date of my diploma is July 4, and tears. Its hard for us to imagine
educated. They have never disapWith her wonderful memory Mrs. 1860. I was married to Col. A. J. Mc- the composure of this erudite scholor
soon won distinction as a story
pointed me."
writer. "Prince Hal" and "Family i Kirksey recalls the names of her old Bride (10th Ga. Reg't. Inf.) in 1864, lasting thru recitation and its gratFrom "Washington Wilks" also
Secrets" were Popular works and her school mates, among them "Puss" moved to Atlanta after the Civil War ifying to know that, as the line filed
came Mary (Hill) Ficklen. She
"War Time Journal of a Georgia (Mary) Moss, Sallie Hoke, later Mrs- and have lived here ever since-Of (out, a backward glance from the last
writes—"Mine has been rather a cirWm
Girl" is considered outstanding.
- Redd; Annie and Leila Pullen; seven children, I have left three sons \ Siri revealed a glimpse of that gentlecumscribed, plodding sort of life noShe was a regular contributor to Augusta Hill; Elizabeth Berry, later Col. R. B. McBride of the U- S. A.,' man convulsed with laughter. But
thing spectacular, just trying to be
the New York Chatauquan and many Mrs- Geo- Oglesby; Sudie Means, Mrs- W. S. and A. J. McBride who reside not always did their sins find them
faithful to each duty as it came, as
of the leading magazines. The value j Griffin; Miss Mariah Brown, the art
out. She says the teachers never did wife, mother, grandmother, citizen,
of her "Botany" as a text book is! teacher and Miss Corrie, her piano
My only daughter who grew to wo- k„ow that Sallie sheppard, a misand church member- Six generations
evidenced by revisions being made [ teacher. She dwelt affectionately up- manhood, Henrietta, married Elijah cheivous girl from Columbus wickof my people have held membership
every ten years and a special edition on her dear friend, Julia Hunt who A. Brown and died in her 28th year, edly taught all the girls how to do
in this same old Methodist Church
prepared to meet the needs of tne was "very merry" and whom she leaving a son Elijah A. Brown, Jr. the schottische, the Polka and lanorganization- I am the grand-daughPublic Schools of New York City. must have very truthfully called the
My hobbies have been a cultiva- cers. Our dear, saintly Mrs. Cotton—
ter of a Methodist steward, the dauHer own school experience was at prettiest girl, for later, when this tion of my flower garden and a pas- Pillar of the church and great-grandghter of a steward, the wife of a steWesleyan where she taught during1 daughter of LaGrange went abroad, sionate love of nature in all its forms motherthat you are—that twinkle ii
ward, the mother of a steward, and
the administration of Dr Bass. A'her beauty created a sensation. In especially our native wild flowers. your eye makes it easy for us to bethe grandmother of a junior steward
most interesting experience was a Paris she was Presented at Court and Until the last few years there was lieve all this mischievousness that
which department is doing good work
correspondence with Luther Burbank danced with Jerome
Bonaparte, scarcely a month in the year in which you recall so clearly, admitting that
in our church. For more than forty
on scientific subjects accomPained by Other members of this interesting I did not go on long excursions.fre- you have, years ago forgotten all the years I have taught that "much spoilan exchange of seeds and reports class were Martha Bell, Mrs. Charles quently walking five miles or more Philosophy, Languages and Mathem- ed Sunday School class" of which you
made to each other of results obtain- Ridley, Mother of Judge J. B- Ridley; into the beautiful woods in the vici- atics taught you by those patient wrote though I do not think they are
frock-coated professors of the Old 'spoiled'. The personel has changed
Alice Culler, Mrs. Cobb, who was out
ed in their own localities.
nity of Atlanta, which are rich in
School.
standing as member of Methodist
of course, over and over, but they are
In later years a very special honor
oOo
Board of Missions and for many rare and beautiful wild flowers, even
all 'my boys' and we love each other
came to this little woman when an years a beloved teacher at Wesleyan; several varieties of terrestial orchids.
1869.
as members of a family. Some of
Italian Society of Science and Lit- j Achsah Turner, Mrs. A- J- Marsh; I believe my Present physical and
Ida (Amos) McFarlane— now in them tame into the class as lads and
erature offered membership to a; Carrie Stinson, Mrs. Ogletree of mental condition is due largely to the her 80th year —since her graduation left it as fathers when duty called
small group of Americans, including, White Sulphur Springs and Tinsley benefits received from these hobbies. 62 years ago has been a regular at- them else where. To their children 1
am
Frances Andrews. Others in this Winston.aunt of Mrs- E- T. Moon.
I have always thought that the tendant at the Baptist church where am always 'Grandma Fick'.
All these years Mary Sheppard
she still attends Sunday School and: holding my class in the Sunday school
group were Thomas Edison, Woodhas kept a letter written to her from closing of school life was only the W- M S. Recalling her graduation wj,ere my ^n ;s superintendent, my
row Wilson and President Butler of the College by her beloved Julia Hunt leading out into a wider and larger
at L. G. she said when reading her] grandchildren are students,
my
Columbia.
during her absence from school be- culture and I have continued my ed- essay "she trembled so violently that grand son-in-law an efficient assisIt is gratifying to her friends to cause of whooping cough. It was un- ucation by reading the best literature President Cox stood by her side un- tant teacher. My oldest grand-danghJcnow of her comfortable little home doubtedly meant to cheer Mary for History, biography and the classics til she finished."
ter, Emmie Ficklen Harper is with
Mary (Hall) Truitt and her be- her husband, a missionary in India
in Rome, Ga., shared by a friend who ! most of it is written in a lively strain. are my preferences. My son and I
watches over her welfare. Here, sur- She writes "I miss you sadly" and have just re-read "Faery Queen" and loved husband, the late J. G- Truitt' and my only precious little great
warns her not to cough enough to
are numbered among L- C-'s most loy- grand-baby was born in India- I am
rounded by her loved books, many of
enlarge her mouth". The time stain- "Faust". I consider "Faery Queen" al friends. Mr. Truitt's gift of $50,- one of the 'Pioneers' of the Womans
them the work of her heart and ed, but still colored, pale rose paper, one of our greatest classics000 was one of the outstanding do- Missionary Society and have my Pin
brain, with her dear ones near by, the Perfect composition, the sweet
It must be confessed that I have nations of the last campaign.
which I greatly prile—Mr. Ficklen
expressions of girlhood friendship, a weakness for some lighter literaand I have been married fifty-six
In
response
to
our
request,
MrsFrances Andrews in the evening of
the very fine beautiful penmanship ture. I especially take pleasure in Harriett Stubbs Ross, daughter of years without even peeping into a
her long, service filled life awaits of a vanished hand—all sPeak to us solving detective and mystry stories. Hattie (Patillo) Stubbs who last sum- divorce court. We have no great bank
I fear that I may have made this mer went to her reward, sends an account, nor super-abundance of this
the summons of the "Master of all across three quarters of a century of
the "tender grace of a day that is j letter rather too long but I endeav- old photograph of this class- Mrs. worlds goods but we have ots and lots
good workmen."
dead."
ored to comply with your request.
Ross writes "I recall hearing my to be thankful for and know of a
-* - wi r' r^ tw
j
LaGrange College.
Mrs. Luther Rosser (Julia Connal- I the burden of the head of a family,
truth that "goodness and mercy have
Iy(
Passed away May 26th, 1929.
and each, as the facts appear, have
followed us all the days of our lifemet the responsibility with courage
Thank you for inviting me to com- Lost Address:
and faith, and all the sons and daughAnnie (Crusselle) Vaughn.
mencement—how I would love to go
ters have had college training and
Clodissa
(Richardson)
Connally
—but the strain would be too much
are in the Professional world or
oOo
—my best wishes for the College.
other lucrative employment.
Lost Address:
1879.
The first of this class to marry
Lula (Culberson) McCoywas
Frances White who married
Class
Secretary,
Frances
(White)
0O0
Alexander
Stevens Clay, a young
ClayNext
reunion,
1882.
1874.
In i886 Mattie Traylor was marri- lawyer, of Marietta, and has lived in
Maggie (Whitaker) Foote married ed to Thos. H. Northern, son of Gov- Marietta since, except twelve wondRev- W. R. Foote in 1878 and until ernor Northern, lived in the Execu- erful winters spent in Washington,
his death in 1922 served with him in tive Mansion until her large attrac- D. C, when her husband was United
various charges in the North Georgia
tive home on Piedmont Avenue was States Senator. She applied for and
Conference. While he was Presiding
comPletaed, and she still lives in the secured the Position of Post Master
Elder of the LaGrange District, she
old home with her daughter, and, al- of Marietta and has held the Position
was interested and helpful in the
though a "shut-in" temporarily, from until now. Mrs- Clay said: "I am
work of our College.
a fall, she is interested in all current trying to keep the same standard of
She was a charter member of the
affairs, in her flower garden, her won- living my children were accustomed
Woman's Missionary Society and has
derful Shakespeare collection, and to when their father was with us,
several times been made a life memeach day succeeds in doing some help- and that requires considerable financber. She is a member of the U. D. C.
ful things for others- Her home radi- ing—the compensation was necessary
and the Fine Arts Club of Decatur
ates sunshine and she is a constant and I have found the work satisfying
where she resdes with her son.
inspiration to all who come in con- and stimulating—the years less loneHer friend Ruth (Evans) Dallis,
ly. I recommend remunerative octact with her.
'93, writes of Lula Ward: She is exQuoting from "Women of Georgia" cupation to every woman with time
perienced as a teacher of Public
on her hands."
schools and in her night schools for i Mrs. Thomas Northern gives her
In her resume of class of '79 and
aid
to
the
movements,
whose
aim
it
young men, a loyal member of the
activities
of fifty years she says: I
Episcopal church, Woman's Club and is to raise the standards of Society, am loathe to have the subject withU. D- C. She maintains a lovely col- her beneficial nature being manifest- out paying tribute to LaGrange Colonial home and from her flower gar- ed in a broad range of interest- In lege. The inspiring association of
dens of this home she sends and j 1879 Mrs. Northern graduated from] the lovely old Southern City, the camore often carries, her flowers to LaGrange College, later attendng Mt. i pable faculty, the knd surveillance
bring joy to happy brides, cheer to • Vernon Insttute, Baltimore, Md-, and advice to the girls, the demand
shut-ins and those on beds of sick-! where she had the Privilege of being for the best work in the classrooms
ness—She verily goes about doing in the English Literature Class of j —all had their influence of these fine
Sidney Lanier. Here she received the
good.
General
Excellence .Medal for 31 per- girls and on all the hundreds of girls
oOo
fect weeks out of the 34 in the the passing years have turned out
1876.
scholastic year. After her return from properly equipped, mentally, morally
and Physically, for all life's changes,
Jennie (McFail) Warlick taught in Baltimore, she organized a Lanier and I am sure the college can look
the College the three years f ollow- j Reading Club in LaGrange. Later she with pride upon the activities of its
ing her graduation, had her romance was active in the Shakespeare Club graduates, most of whom have made
on the old Hill and was married in in Atlanta and the Alumnae Associa- good homes."
the college parlor, inl879 the cere- tion of her Alma Mater.
mony beng performed by the Presi-! Sara Williams was married in 1885
oOo
dent, Rev. J. R. Mayson, who became to W. A. Reed, of LaGrange, and
1880
her uncle-in-law. She led a busy Life lived there for several years- She was
rearing si:: children. Ti.c four still active in club work, patriotic organiFannie (Dowman) Suber writes
living are married, yet she continues zations, being President of the U- D- that since her marriage she has conbusy and says "the world is so full C. Chapter. She now lives near her tinued to live in the old home where
of work and duties that only a slack- old home in Warm Springs, and is her farmer husband was born.
Toer could be idle—am a member of the Head of the Woman's Club there gether, they have farmed, gardened,
the Atlanta Alumnae Club and thor- and active in church work. She has run a dairy, operated a country store,
oughly enjoy it. My love for my dear one son and two grandchildren.
but the biggest thing was to raise a
Alma Mater is one of the strongest
Kitty Jolly did not return after family of nine children—all honest,
loves of my 1
Christmas of her senior year but law-abiding God-fearing citizens who
Lost Address:
went to Shorter to be nearer home on are doing their bit in the world.
Aldora (Gaulding) Thomasson account of the prolonged illness of She says "We have not accumulated
her mother, and she received her dip- much of this world's goods, but have
oOo
—
loma there. In 1881 she married Dr. had our share of happiness, our uPs
1877.
Van Meter of near Kingston where and downs joys an sorrows, as most
The same year she completed her she continues a strong, eonsistant people have—still love the old coleducation at LaGrange College, Sar- worker in all activities for the better- lege."
ah Antoinette (Curt-right) Candler ment of the community. Since losing Lost addresses:
had the bravery to marry a young her husband, her only daughter with
Emma (Stipe) Walker.
man just entering the Methodist min- her husband and a small grand-daughIda (Emory) Trammell.
istryter have made their home with her.
Throughout the years of Warren A.
Lula Jones married C. R. Bilbro in
-oOoCandler's great usefulness, receiving 1886, and during his life she lived in '
the highest honors his church could Atlanta and in Rome, Georgia. Now
1881
bestow, a college Presidency a Bis- she is living in Cartersville, where
Marietta (Vaughan) Fitzpatrick
hopric, she has shared his everystrug- she grew up. Because of her wonderwas an "Irenian" and still possesses
gle and must rejoice in the thought ful musical talent and training, she
her "badge" and her interest in
of having a Part in a life so f ilhd with has been helpful in musical entercollege affairs.
She writes: 'I wish
service, now reaping a harvest of tanments and has given much pleaI had some wonderful or interesting
love frim his boys of old Emory and sure to others- Speaking 0f LaGrange
things to tell about myself, but alas,
the devotion af the church into which College, she said: "I entered college
I have never done anything out of
he has poured his great heart.
in the Junior Class, '78 and graduthe ordinary!"
She taught a while
Aside from every wifely duty, she ated in '79- As my mind reverts
married and raised a family of five
is fulfilling every obligation as back to the aristocratic old town- It
children all grown and married except
church member and citizen- She was is filled with pleasant memories of
one, all public spirited and trying to
a charter member of the Woman's the halcvon days"do their bit." Her eldest daughter
-Mi-ionary Society; one of three wo- Weil do I recall the prominent famMrs. H- L. Green of Zebulon is Presmen to establish the Board of City ilies interested inthe college and the
ident of the 6th District Federated
Missions in Atlanta, member of La- girls—the Baughs, the Bighams, the
clubsShe is interested in things
dies Memorial Association an active Careys, Callaways and Curtrights—
and says her trips to Washington
member of LaGrange College Alum-. the Ferrells, McLendons, MpFarlands
York, Asheville and a motor
nae Associationand others; also President Mayson, journey to Florida were thrilling.
Since the old days of her residency] who was always considerate and told,
She further writes: It may be of
at Oxford when she assisted many
:ther that I had been a pleasure interest that Annabel Matthews, who
boys in getting an education, her to him because I never complained
has just been appointed a member of
life has been one of unselfish ser-! about the boarding home service.
the United States Board of Tax Apvice.
I was struck by the coincidence peals, the first woman to get that
Bishop and Mrs. Candler reside in that each of the Class of '79 is now
appointment, is the daughter of my
N. Decatur Road, Atlanta.
widowed and upon each has falen sister, Augusta (Vaughn) Matthews,
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April, 1930.
who graduated in my class. No doub;
some of the inspiration she received
at LaGrange College was transmitted to her daughter and her son who
is a distinguished lawyer in New
York City.
Lost adresses:
Myrtle (Gates) Smith; Loula (Watkins) Overstreet; Lula (Brannon)
KnapPoOo
1882
Class Secretary, Ida (Palmer)
Mc-
Donald.
Outside the secretary's family, her
interest and work has been in church
and all forms of civic affairs, especially anything connected with the
dear old College, having been a constant member of her local alumnae
club since its organization.
Mary Fannie (Turner) Taylor continues prominent along educational
and is still teaching in Juniper,
Ga.
Mollie (Stipe) Walker is devoting
herself to her home and family, but
finds time to take an active interest
in the Atlanta Alumnae Club.
For years Alice (Boykin) McClendon has been a "pillar" in the LaGrange Alumnae Club always with
'■•cv shoulder to the wheel in every
andertakinS for the college.
Our
beautiful and historic gate posts,
which once marked the entrance of
the Ben Hill estate, are treasured
gifts from "Millard and Alice."
Only four of us left and we four
try to meet each other every year
at the alumnae reunion.
o-Oo
1883
Class Secretary Carobel (Heidt) Calhoun.
Next Reunion, 1932.
Nellie (Revill) O'Hara, widowed
"O early, has since devoted herself to
teaching until her two children were
educated. She now resides with her
daughter in Orlando, where she is
active in church work and interested
in her four grandchildrenGinevra (Gohlson) Cantrell claims
she is the real "Circuit Rider's wife"
that "Corra Harris didn't live it and
doesn't know the half."
Gineva is
just over nervous Prostration, in Oxford trying to nurse back to health
an ill husbandMaud (Howell) Brooke says her
eight children are grown and scattered to the four corners of the globeShe is interested in flowers and
about ohce a month her big 15-room
home is brightened by the whoopee
i bunch of grand-children.
Classmates and friends will be interested to know of the honor that
has come to E ff i e (Thompson)
Smith's son, Young Smith, who is
now Dean of the Law School, Columbia University. She passed away a
few years ago leaving two daughters
and a son.
Carobel (Heidt) Calhoun, a real
daughter of the college, received her
education while her beloved father
was President. Her home obligations
were doubled since Judge Calhoun's
death—just when her three boys
were ready to launch out into life.
While they occupy the major part of
her heart and hands, she finds time
to be interested in the North Avenue
Presbyterian church, where her boys
attend. Those who worked along with
her in war time will recall the considerable pale of sox, sweaters helmets mittens and sewing Produced
by her busy fingers.
1S84
Class Secretary Minnie (Reviil) AtkinsonNext Reunion, 1932.
Mary (Broome) Gresham is living
in Long Beach, California with her
husband, son and widowed daughter,
Mary, Jr.
After finishing at LaGrange, Mary took a degree at Peabody College and was a successful
teacher until her marriage.
Mamie (Spears) Akridse is living
in Atlanta and is a most active member of the Atlanta Alumnae chapter.
Jennie (Sims) Redwine, after living many years in Atlanta moved to
the middle-west with her husband
and family.
Minnie (Revill) Atkinson divides
her time between Greenville, Ga., and
Orlando, Fla., spending her winters
at the latter place, where she and
her husband have a winter home,
Merichat, on Lake Rowena.
Lost Address:
Jennie (Simms) Redwine
eOo
1885
Class Secretary, Katie (Cooper) Culpepper.
Next Reunion, 1933.
We regret that lack of space demands that we only quote in part the
following from Dasy (Knight) Abercrombie:
Dear Alma Mater :How long it has been since I have
written you or communicated with
my sisters who were nurtured on
your loving breastHow can you
welcome one who has been so indifferent and prodigal of the dives you
have bestowed? Having been your
adopted daughter four years, these
four years are to me a sacred shrine
where memory worships with untiring devotion. —Whom do I see down
the corridors of time, but a coterie
of the finest girls this old mundane
sphere ever created! I fear to call
the roll, knowing that so many of
our family have Passed beyond the
reach of my voice.
What would I
give to be loved and appreciated by
my acquaintances of to-day, as I felt
that I was in the college home, with
Dr. John W. Heidt, presiding as our
chief executive; his sunny nature, his
merry laugh, so contagious, and supremely, h i s Christian example!
Where, oh where, are Carobel Heidt.
Effie Thompson, Annie. Mamie and
Clara Bradley, Jennie Simms, Beulah
and Pauline Arnold. Helen Reed and
scores of others that crowd within
my mental halls, awaiting salutationAlas! some are beyond the touch of
earthly hands; some are spirits on
celestial shores, but their shades, we
believe, are watching over the old
college chums who lag: behind. I left
vou, dear, with honors, with highest
hopes, with acquisitions, from which
I would not part, for dear old Rockeefeller's billion and a half. A heart,
light, trustful and unsuspecting and
ideals obsessed with the word "Excelsior."
The highway of my life
down to the present terminus has
many markers of defeat and victory.
A minor key in which my life seems
n has had major choi-ds of joy.
and happiness.
Always buoyancy
came to my rescue when distillusioned or discouraged; but thanks to my
inheritance from thee, 0 Mother, I
have arrived thus far, coemizant of
a few thines well done. I loved, mara bonnie lad, w*>o left me near
eirrht years am>. There came into
mv life two idolized girls- Thsv, too
have loft me for homes of their own.
T have be«>n teaching many years.
Trying to lift those about me to
higher Pinnacle*, makes me hapPvI have learned +hat. he who aids others, aids himself more. I have thor-
LaGrange College.
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April, 1930.
oughly learned that selfishness de- head of Atlanta Alumnae Club. A her heart because its her mother thousand nodding their heads in children unusuall ^^ Th
sroys character, homes, muncipalities qucnation that appeals to her, and | gnl-hood home.
sprightly dance." These were transnever need the little Papers 1 once
and nations; it is the supreme goli- expresses her personally, is:
j>eari (White) Barnes makes one planted by Lilly Jackson along with prized and
.
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y
u>ulle
ath that seeks to disintegrate and
ic was never yet loving that empti-" ciaml that can oe made by very few nerself wnen she married Albert hm(
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among
her
old
friends
ed tne heart
annihilate peace and happiness.
living Alumnae I learned my A. B- iigner. A lovely grown daughter and at reunion this vear
Nor giving that emptied the
But my! How I run on! It is so
C'a in the College—entered while two nandsome sons are her greatest
Maggie (Dean) harden delighted
Puree.
difficult to relinquish your hand, or
Mr. Mongan was president and at- joy. She is active interested in church her old friendg by wanderin£ back to
Jessie (Pitman) Sutton has the tended under Dr- Heidt and Mr- i^iub worn and .LaGrange Aiumnae. j LaGrange brine-ins alone
the benediction of your smile- May
the "King of Kings" Perpetuate your distinction of oeing adored by each Smith,—for thirty four years have
Julia Moate begins her letter re- derful old' nieces f f. 7 some J^11"
endeavors and rule over you and your of her tnree daugnters-in-law, and lived hapPiiy with my farmer hus- mimscmg the days when "the girls of tablishing a charmin T™ * ir
housenold, forever and foreverthe tnree sets of grandchildren all band_cUr flve children have all left tM ran care-free tnrough those en- don Street
Lollie (Lewis) Harris writes of her inherit their parents fondness for the home nest; they are stm sweet chanted halls, building air castles,
Newtie (Ingram) Merrill'
school days: "Dr-Heidt was the hon- her and are never so happy as when and attentive t0 me. all doing wen, tnat bright June morning when our daughters are both married S
ored president and he and Dr. Peter visiting "grandmother" in her Dec- am sending love to my class.mateS dear Mr. Smith gave us his blessing Maimi, the other in New York Cit^
Heard, both bosom friends of my
of '88 and wish for aur Alma Mater and our dipiomas|" Her dreams of Newtie's three hobbies are music
father, are among my dearest mem- Lost Address:
unbounded Presperity.
further degrees were laid aside when flowers and S. S. School. She recentEmma (Barrett) Black.
ories.
Her glorious voice largely domin- Annie (Moate) Scott went to Heaven ]y sellt Miss Mu],er and Mrg Abbott
I would be so happy to hear from
ated the activities of Jennie (Evans) leaving a message that she help rear some lovely daffodils 'from her gaiooo
the old girls— I roomed with Bunnie
Bradfield following her graduation, the week-old baby. After some years, den.
Trinble and Carrie Williams and Mol1887She continued her voice study in Bos- her brother lost his wife and five Lost Address:
lie Simms— I simply adored Kate
ton and during her teaching years years she mothered his two little
Grace (Aiken) Mitchell.
Next Reunion—1933.
Worley who became a Mrs- Kimhad wonderful offers to sing in con- girls. Annie's boy is now a physician
,
o0o
brough—and I remember the gloriIf a bahot were cast, who would cert and opera. While assistant voice the eldest girl a Junior at Wesleyani893
ous voces of Daisy Knight and Ali- De vctta ine most loveu Alumna.' ui teacher at Wesleyan, she was soloist Julia is manager of the Massee Apt.
via Macy—I loved Persia Wright and course ail nave guessed iviaiaie Smitn. at Mulberry St., Church in Macon. Dining room and would be glad to see class Secretary, Gene (Covin) Farmothers who were in lower classes. In Of her loyalty to L. G., her broad Her two sons are married and in the any of the old girls who come to
1930.
er. Next Reunion
all these years, have only seen two usefulness, her lniluence among: tne same business firm with their father!- Macon.
In
a
recent
article
in a LaGrange
of my old class-mates. All of my student body, her personal., cnarm. j The only grandson is Ira Bradfield,
Bettie (Parker) Davenport writes newspaper, Ruth (Evans) Dallis is
children are married and I am a quiet many columns coula be written. In Jr., age 3 1-2. Besides singing in the "Yes. I am a grandmother—not the
old fashioned woman, but I still love . the "Mamie Smith Garden" the local Presbyterian Church choir 36 years, lace cap and shawl type, nor the flap- is called one of the "most interesting
and most loved women of LaGrange."
our wonderful College
' alumnae are trying to., express., in she has served as teacher in Sunday Per variety".
A pioneer Club woman, she was the
It required a visit to Senoia t o contributions.. Irom.. thtir.. gardens. School, President of Woman's AuxilSince last year she has been S3
discover the outstanding leader-ship special donations, and by work of lary, President U. D- C. Regent La- inS World War Veterans at the Bur- youngest to ever hold office in the
of Katie (Cooper) CulPepPer in this tneir hands a small measure of their Grange D. A. R-. President LaGrange eau in Atlanta. Proceeding this were State Federation, having been State
charming little town. Besides being : icre tor this daughter of the College- Alumnae Club, Secretary of Woman's eleven busy years in Washington, D. Recording Secretary and State Corresponding Secretary, hoding each
the busy, helpful wife of a very busy
Among the many graduates who Club, now President of Missionary C., beginning in War time with an office two terms. It was while thus
doctor, she is President of the Aux- ' are reflecting honor on LaGrange Col- J Union and Historian U- D. C.
| appointment to the War Rish Insur- serving this organization, that her
iliary of the Presbyterian Church and lcge is Blanche.. (McFarlane).. GafClara (Parks) Betterton for thirty ance Bureau- In a few months time; influence was used successfully to
officer in the U- D. C.
1'ney of Golumbus Ga. state regent six years has held down the job of she saw this Bureau grow from one help frame Child Labor Laws of GeoShe expressed much loyalty to Lof the D. A. R.
home-maker. Since rearing a family hundred to fourteen thousand em- rgia. She was instrumental in organC. and has promised a visit to the
She was the guest of the College she has been twice president of Chat- Ployees. From this busy life many ;zing the first chapter of Red Cross
College this spring.
on December 10th., when on a visit! tanooga Woman's Club, she was or- triPs were taken into nearby Vir- jn LaGrange- During recent years,
Ethel (Johnson) Puckett, A. B. of
to the local D. A- K- chapter- She was ganizer and first president of Mis- ginia. She says "Your sight-seeing Mrs- Dallis has been conspicuous in
'85 and daughter of a former presihonored by the chapter with an ex- sionary Ridge Garden Clubs and now. will not be complete until you have her work as President of the Ladies
dent recently organized the first Lquisite luncheon at the Colonial Ho-! President of City Federation of Gar-'Sone through the Shenandoah Valley Memorial Association and holding
C. Alumnae Club in Tifton. Her sistel at which time she made theprinc-' den Clubs- She gives these facts with at Apple Blossom timeoffices in U- D. C, D. A. R. and as
ter Florence (Johnson) Goodman ipal speech.
apologies saying "a true daughter of Lost Addresses:
Woman's Club Committee Chairman.
who attended LaGrange with class of
Carrie (Dickerson) Lee
-Fof a number of years she., has ' L. C. should have accomplished more,
But it is in her home and church
'97 is also an interested member- We
Dona (Haralson) Smith.
maintained a scholarship in music at and adds "now that I've passed the
that Mrs. Dallis is at her happiestare delighted that Ethel Plans to atoOo
the College in memory of her mother,' mid-day of life, I more fulH'xrealize
Two love'y young daughters and a
tend the Reunion this year.
Fredonia Raiford. This., is given that the matters of home are the
splendid son are her closest comooo
through the LaGrange chapter U. D- precious things of life."
panions and friendsLost Addresses:
1886.
C.
Class Secretary, Maggie (Dean)
As musician, Sunday School teachFannie (Covin) Shirah
In
her
travels
over
the
state
BlanvVarden.
Next
Reunion—1934.
r
and Missionary Circle leader she
e
Class Secretary Ruth (Mixon) Dobbs
Ollie (Ellis) Trippe
che
never
fails
to
speak
a
good
word
A
most
cordial
letter
came
from
is
serving
her church willingly and
Next Reunion—1933
Grace (Johnson) Twyman
for her Alma Mater. Inspiration reKate (Daniel) Polhill expressing efficiently. To quote her expressed
Lois Sullivan.
From Bunnie (Trimble) Johnson, ceived here doubtless Played an immuch love for the College and her ambition "I am simply trying to
"I was three years in LaGrange un- portant part in her attainment of her
-OQOhopes for coming back to visit some- pluck a thistle and plant a flower
time.
der Dr. Height and Peter Heard. Mrs- position of leader ship and usefulas I go along."
1889.
Luke Johnson was one of my first ness in state and national organizaWillie Jones writes she has lived
Kate (Moss) Cleckler writes "I
room-mates. Ruth (Mixon) Dobbs tions. (By Mary (Park) Polhill, Re- Class Secretary, Lilly (Jackson) Tig-j in the sehool room over a quarter of'consider myself fortunate in being in
and I graduated in Rufus Smith's gent, LaGrange D- A. R.
ner. Next Reunion in 1934.
(a century and loves it. "I feel just LaGrange College under our beloved
first class. For nearly forty years, I Lost Addresses:
Maude McDaniel writes "A con- seven, the age of my 2nd grade pupilj' President Rufus W. Smith—I can say
have been a doctors wife—a full time
densed account 0f yourself "—so here I love them and know how to man- truthfully "The lines are fallen unto
Bertha (Henry) Thomas
job. Three of our children are with
Lillian (Ridenhour) Perry
it is:
jage them, if I only knew how to tea- me in pleasant places"—I am the
us. Faith died in 1918- She was namTrips? Lots of them by motor, ch them!
happy wife of one of the best mere
Carrie (Williams) Baker.
ed for her glad heart. Her delight
rail and by boat, but none as yet by j How I wish I had listened more and one of the best Preachers in the
-ooo—
in the church is remembered by a
airplane, tho I may fly almost any attentively to Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Mr. North Georgia Conference. We have
day school in China, her missionary
day.
Courses, too, a-Plenty for if ( Euler and my other wonderful teach- had ten homes. I have loved each
I88Ssociety and the Sunday school class
one must teach in a progressive ers at L. C I am Proud of our Col- place, as well as the people and am
she taught with such joy. These all Class.. Secretary, Jennie.
(Evans) school system, one must be continu- lege and grateful indeed for what always thankful for a place to labor
' ally alert in order to keep Pace with it has done for me."
, in God's Kingdom.
bear her name. Of all places where Bradfield. Next Reunion—1933Lilly (Jarrell) McClenny writes advancing methods. Very soon after I Ada (McLaughlin) Jones married
We have four charming daughters
I have lived, the old college remains
home to me"Its the quiet home life I've led and leaving dear old LaGrange College, a lawyer in her home town of Gre- and four grand-daughters. My own
In a setting of mountains and lakes the degrees I've takn are not credit- I attached myself to the Atlanta enville, Ga-, where she afterwards 'ttle Amy is among the leaders of
with all that could surround a beau- ed in any college I know—after a Schools and have had the honor of served as president of School Club, ner class she gets that from her
tiful home, green houses, flowers, an reasonable amount of effort, the M. continuous service through these long president of Woman's Missionary father.
avairy, many canary birds, gardens, R. S. was conferred on me followed years. My interest is as keen to-day! Society, president of W. C. T. U. In I Listen, you women who think you
and chickens—is a lovely English in a few years by that of Ma, the last as when I first began my work. I 1928 served as District President of are busy, to the following account
house where Ruth (Mixon) Dobbs de- degree repeated three tims success- often think of the different members Ga. Federation of Women's Clubs, j OI Bird (Baxter) Gentry:—Taught
clares she "has really settled for life ively and successfully, these times of the class and I hope to hear from
Besides being author of two plays, music five years in the College at
after many ups and downs, many in- marking high spots in my life—but them through the "Scroll",
she is mother of three children and McRae; Pianist and choir director in
Eugnia Shepherd write from Or- grandmother of two.
teresting trips—in the place and with my latest honor, that of Grand Ma
! Eastman Methodist Church, District
associations I love best."
the most thrillingI lando where she spends her winters
Loulie (Hard-wick) Candler is mak- Chairman of Music in 12th District
As did our loved Uncle Rufus to (her summers in Commerce) "I have in? her home with her daughter, Ward ^• T. A.; directed National Music
Two years after graduation she
married and of her four children she us, I would commend these several fond recollectons of L. C and my (Mrs. Smith). "My art attainments? week in 1924, continuing chairman of
had the great sorrow of losing the degrees to all stndents of the old Col- classmates. No, I did not marry the j YeSi j earned a normal art dip]oma' Music week since then; organized
I Preacher beau—some tell me that the
tw0 eldest, a boy and a girl. The two lege and wish, them success.
! in New York so many years ago that ^ Woman's Bible class 10 years ago
Lou (CamP) Brannon claims for place to meet one's fate is on the
youngest, Samuel Candler, Jr. and
Mildred are both married. Three her family one girl, three hoys and green benches in the Park, but for me the "Scroll' would put it under the and most 0f the time teacher snee
precious grand babies, all boys are a four grandchildren—all boys. If that thats too late- I enjoy the flowers head of "Antiques" or "Antics of then; Chairman of Monument Cornconstant joy. Aside from her family girl is'nt spoiled, wc wonder why? and sunshne and that is my reason Education" by old LaGrange gradu- mttee when Confederate monument
and home, she is vitally interested in Looking after a farm helps keep for going to the Park."
ate. I still have my recommendation t was erected; won Prize as best
young people, both boys and girls, Lou busy.
A "host of golden daffodils" ad- and statement of graduation from . "grade mother"; officer in D. A. R.
Cecile Longino keeps up her music orning the ancestral Tigner home in the old "Chase School of
and she does much to make happiArt" in and W- C. T. U-; for past seven years
ness for others- For her Alma Mater by teaching and study, now taking Meriwether County remind LaGrange
New York, but wonder sometime president of Woman's Missionary
she expresses her love in active ser- lessons at Atlanta Conservatory of girls of the hospitable old Jackson
vice, having held the office of State Music She teaches music in near by home out near the Chattahoochee what to do with both- My daughters Society, most of time on honor roll
President of Alumnae and now at the Fayetteville. a little town dear to _ where, at a glance, one saw "ten are better artists than I, and their of S- Ga-, Conference; last December
made a life member of W. M. S- as
Christmas gift; unti rcently had a
small class in Piano. She says her
only real claim for distinction is in
being the mother of three fine boys;
Baxter, married and in the insurance
■ business in Atlanta. Oscar Jr., at
Riverside Acadamy, Edgar a sophomore in high school, like his mother,
• loves music.
Gene and Jennilu (Covin) Farmer
and Wooding, respectively,
have
beautiful homes on adjoining lots
■where, together, they are raising
flowers. Gene's children and also enjoying their adorable mother.
On the front page of this years
edition of the "Quadraugle" is a picture of Ora (Martin) Abbott. Beneath it is written the following:—
"Because of her devotion and loyalty
to our College, because of the perfect example she has set us, and because she is our own true friend, we
the Students of LaGrange College
dedicate this volume of the Quadrangle to Mrs- Ora M. Abbott.
After the death of her husband,
'Mr- Philip M. Tate, Edna Ferguson
•was left with four little children and
the care of his diversified businessAfter leading a very busy life, she
retired from all active business interest and is now living quitly in her
home which her mother is now sharing with her.
-0O0-
1894.
Class Secretary, Etta (Cleveland)
Dodd. Next Reunion—1930.
Her friends will be delighted to
learn that Eula (Beauchamp) Meacham is gradually regaining the use
of her arm whch was frightfully
mangled in an automobile accident
some time ago. She has just returned to Atlanta from visits to Washington and New York and plans In
attend the reunion of her class this
year.
Etta (Cleveland) Dodd holds a
distinction that can be claimed by
no other Alumna of L. C.
Many
have sent their daughters back to
LaGrange, but until Margaret, her
baby came, she had no daughter to
send. Not to be out done, she sent
her boy. Lamar, who was granted
an art diploma in 1926- Now not only
the College, but all LaGrange is
proud of Lamar's achievments in
New Yory where he has won recognition -.from highest scources-oOo-
1895
Class Secretary, Lora (Edmondson)
LovejoyNext Reunion, 1930.
Before her marriage Rosa (Callahan) Lassiter had served as Principal of several high schoolSince
losing her husband three years ago,
she still makes herself a part of
things worth while. Her main interest is conducting Bible and Mission
study classes.
Daisy (Morris) Smith claims she
has done nothing outstanding but
owns uP to raising three fine boys
and working in every organization of
the church.
Annie (Thrasher) Parham is one
of the two L- C girls elected county
superintendents of schools.
Annie
being elected for Oconee County in
1928. She has taught in the schools
of Brunswick, Atlanta, Ashburn and
Watkinsville.
Myra (Bruce) Glasure has to her
credit the rearing of two girls and
six boys, .t-he,ir occupations ranging
from the sand table to Grand Scribe
April, 1930.
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LaGrange College.
day school, besides rearing a daugh- ing is occupying the spare time oi
ter and son, both filling ' places of Jule Tigner and her sister, Mrs. Bodusefulness,
die. Their beauty can well be imagBell (Brantly) Roddenberry is now ined from such attractive names as
principal of the Charlton County | "California Rose," "Tennessee Cherry-" One called "Pomgranite," a
high school.
Inez Murrah is successfully con- dream in shades of yellows and green
was bought for little "Davy Lee" afducting a tea room in Atlanta.
Mattie Lee (Dunn) Sloan has mov- ter being exhibited at the Macon
ed from McDonough t o Warm ! Fair. Jule is a loyal member of the
Springs. She is now President of. Meriwether Co. Alumnae Club.
Meriwether Co. L. C Alumnae Club. I
Our intellectual Bertha (Wilson)
Florence Traylor married a Mr. J. Upshaw is living again in her daughC. Orr, a Baptist deacon and editor ter Nell (Upshaw) Gannon. Nell has
of a county Paper. Since her grad- already distinguished herself as maguation she has worked continuously azine writer and is now studying for
in W. C- T- U-, the Woman's Mis- her Ph. D. at Unversity of Calforsionary Union, and Sunday School- nia where her professor husband is
'x>st address:
also working toward a post graduate
Helen (Hendrick) Mattox.
degree. Nell, also Possesses much of
the gentle, sweet, charm of her
mother. Bertha is actively interest-oOoed in her home and her town.
Carrie (Davidson) Paulk writes:
1897
"Besides the regular duties that go
with house-keePing, looking after
Next Reunion, 1931
flowers, gardening, chickens and
Class Secretary, Julia Bradfield.
teaching, I am chauffeur for my husDear old '97ers: Right now begin band- Trips? Who ever heard of
aving your Pennies for bus fare to anybody marrying a farmer and ever
-oOoaGrange 'gainst our scheduled re- getting out of the country, much less
gion is in 1931- Let us live again across the U. S. or ocean. My little
.ose days of the dear old nineties' gjri, Anne, is a very important part
1896
hen "Female" was the middle name 0f my ufe and j am hoping she will
Next Reunion in 1931.
. our college, and live again our, iove her Alma Mater as j do and that
.aduating morning when we ex- lt wiU ^ the inspiration to her that
Class Secretary, Evelyn Whitakerjunded to a row of austere trustees mine is to me."
Tallulah (King) Norris, before hi the subjects of "Women in the
Since losmg her husband, Eleanor
husband's death, spent her wintei
hool," "Women in the Church"- ] (cloud) Bryan has taught ^^ and
on beautiful Indian River, where si.
en Woman in Politics! (bold, for-|French in Greensboro High School,
owns an orange grove; her summe.
ird minxes that we were!)
Her three boys are about grown; the
in the mountains of North Georgi
Come, and lets show the
sassy two eijiest^ jun;or and senior, at UnivFor several years, she with hv
ung things" on the camPus today of Ga. the youngest just graduated
daughter, Lewie, has spent most c
hat a real class is like!
from high schoolthe time in Decatur, Ga-, where sh
Ozella (Roberts) Ross sends an
Our class thrills with pride over
takes an active interest as a trustt
i Program for "Sophomore Night" the achievements of Annie Campbell
)f Decatur Orphans Home.
She
ne 1897 in which is announced our as missionary in ChinaHer last
also an officer of the Agnes Le
aduating exercises for next day teaching was in Boy's High School in
Chapter of U- D. C. and active in W
ith address by "Uncle" Simon Peter Soo Chow three years ago.
Since
;
C. T. U. and church work.
chardson. She writes: "As I look then she has been secretary and
Evelyn Whitaker was one of th
ick over my life since I left dear treasurer of Woman's Dep't. of Mis(very popular) "town girls" of th
'■range College, its like a land- sions with office in Shanghai. It is
class, having since moved to Atlani
ape filled with hills and flowers, contorting t
her optimistic
where she resides with her brothe
.lleys and weeds, sunshine and message regarding China: "It was
She was a former president of th
•adows, singing and weeping—all thrilling to be in China when the
LaGrange Chapter U- D- C, now er.
'on.a: sunshine predominates—7 mar- Nationalists were completing their
Saged in Red Cross work- Alway
•ed Mr. Ross with whom I corres- co^ueTts^and'esteblTshing'The new
an interested member of the Atlant
™ded at LaGrange.
I have four government-seven of the ten heads
Club, LaGrange College Alumnae an
i;ldren and two grand babies. My of departments are Christian. China
at present, State Corresponding See
.ughterwhoattendediLaGrange Col- - is in the midst of a many gided rey.
retary.
ge now Mrs. J. C Littlefield, lives olutioll affectmg not on]y government
Clyde (Edmondson) Ridley, anotr
. Folkston. My eldest son is 28, bllt education, religion and industry. .
er much loved town girl, marrie.
y baby g,rl 14—For all my ex- It will ^ many years before condi.
Juge J. B. Ridley of LaGrange an,
er.ence ,n cooking, nursing, etc, I tions are settled. ^ recent out.
has two daughters and one son.
.serve an M- A.
Have attended breaks ^^ Christianitv did not
Was President of the Atlanta Alum
ummer schools; was Principal of a represent the best Chinese but came
nae Association and State Presiden
un.or high. I hope to come back to 0f Soviet influence—China will need
of the Alumnae Association for twc , U just once more before ' cross missionaries for many years and asks
years. Member of the Board of Trus he bar,.
that we do not retrench in our contees of LaGrange College.
Clara (Freeman) Bush's life has tributions of missionaries and funds "
She appreciates the many express ■ been that of a real soldier of the; w„
„,„, .. j » • , , ,,
,.„„.. • J..
„,,.,,
We are glad that Annie had the
ions of sympathy from the Alumnae - -<.„==
-ross. sustained by a perfect faith as I i •
.
„
-w „™,v •
J
•
V ,
glorious experience of a tour thru
and friends of LaGrange College dur- !-he
experienced every ioy and heart D ■ ±, „
,^T
.
Wot tv. <J
"
Palestine and Europe and that she
ing the illness and recent death of • break
that can come to a wife and
is now enjoying a year's furlough.
Judge Ridley.
gan life by teaching near home and bt
ot A„o-„c+n <-„ cu
-~i_i_
,
,
" Augusta, Ga. She promises a
m„^,,;«„
-oOomarrying a neighbor
boy
on an adsnap-shot of herself in a ricksha for
juring farm. There were two chilour scrap book.
dren in her happy home "so full of
1896
Rena Mai (Ledbetter) Graves
promise and opportunity for us to
aims
make
life
worth
while,
but
God,
in
?
, The. on]y e™tful things I
From Lake Saunders. near Eustic,
haV<J d<me SmCC L
' & dayS are to
Fla-, Eleanor (Davenport) Hamm his wise Providence, took our boy at
man y an ,nsurance man and
hav
*
sends greetings to her friends and the age of three, a few years later wins" n w
the
father
and
the
same
year
the
thirt
°
«
v^rs
old,
my
daughclassmates.
ter m SCh 01 m V,rSmia
°
' ^ son in
Possessing a boat and Chrysler se- teen-year-old daughter. To a lonely A burn Ala
>
' I saw Mamie (Dozier)
dan, she, with her little daughter, mother all the world followed them "
ryme la!t SUmmer but Seldom hear
,
'
also Eleanor, are experiencing all the into the Beyond" Putting her trust J
fr m classmates
°
joys of Florida waters and beautiful in God, realizing there was yet left
Monta
(Winter) Hall's daughter
highways. However, she finds time to her work to do in His Kingdom Manita
Graduated at L. C last year
to keep up Piano practice and vocal she did "her bit" in church and other
Being left with much land, and was one of the glrls who made
technic. She declares "I am proud work.
for
nine
years she applied her ener- tho Honor Club oach of her four
of all three diplomas reeived from
I gies toward farming.
***** in the collegemy Alma MaterIn 1922 she married Mr. J. T. Bush
When Monta married John Hall
After five years in the school room
\nnie (Callahan) Hutchinson, has ! who is in Government service and has she enlisted into the glorious army of
itenerated in the North Georgia Con- ' since lved in Valdosta. (Clara sent women now immortalized by Corra
ference as Pastor's assistant and us a snap-hot of her home for our Harris in "The Circuit Rider's Wife."
We regret that lack of space Prevents
wife, serving in almost every capa- -lass scrap-book).
Just
plain,
old-fashiond
quilt
makour
Printng the entire poem sent by
city in missionary society and Sun-
of Alpha Lamba Tau fraternity, ,an,d
a candidate for the ministryLula (Whelchel) Smith took upon
herself a real job when she married
an editor with five small children.
She writes. "In looking after the
children and keeping the editorial
shears near and the paste Pot well
filled there was little time left for
her own mditations." These children
are now all haPpily married and Lula is reaping the joys of being loved
as an own mother. Had the pleasur of visiting one of these children
in California last summer. She says
it was from the college she received
her highest inspiration for service.
Lora (Edmondson) Lovejoy's two
daughters are in college, Clyde, a t
Agnes Scott; Mary at L. C. Her son
John, in high school. Lora is a loyal
•Uumna, always ready to work for
the LaGrange Club of L- C. and active in Missionary Society of her
church and Woman's Club.
Lost Addresses:
Tallulah (Quillian) Thrasher.
Alice (Robins) Cunningham.
rrs. «■»-*.«-. ,c«« b.. „„■—;-i—■ -—
Monta from which we quote:We traveled North and South,
East and West,
Yes, we rode the circuits, the very
best.
Now the Hall I married became one
of fame
When President of Young Harris
College he became.
This fame however did not bring
contnt
So after five years back to the
pastorate we went.
The circuits complete at the station
we arrive
From which I married in nineteen
and five.
Our /boy and girl, Dixon and Manita,
Love Emory and LaGrange their
Alma Mater.
Hei-e's hoping their efforts will not
be in vain
As editor and teacher to bring credit
in the main.
Now, Monta L-, the youngest of the
three
Has an ambition a student at
LaGrange to beLost addresses:
Gertrude (Touchstone) Dunn.
Alma (Stroud) Hancock.
oOo
—
1898
Class Secretary, Evelyn McLaughlin)
McGehee.
Next Reunion, 1931.
Mary Will (Cleveland) Thompson
has just returned from a visit to her
daughter Evelyn who is at Columbia,
a candidate for a Masters DegreeAnnie's baby, Arthur Thompson
Ware, came into her life just when
she most needed the sunshine this
first little grandson of her's brought
into the world. Since the great sorrow of losing her husband, Mary
Will has bravely carried on.
She
teaches a S. S. Class of L. C. girls,
as always outstanding in every department of her church, besides teaching a large class in piano.
Evelyn (McLaughlin) McGehee, is
the president of LaGrange Alumnae
Club in Columbus, from all accounts
this club actively functioning under
her leadership. After a recent visit
to L- C- she wrote: "I can't tell you.
how much I enjoyed going back to
the old Hill remembering the joys
and trying not to remember those
hours of cramming for exams.
After a beautiful service filled
life, the last years spent largely in
loving care of her invalid mother,
Ruth Tuggle went to her reward
January 12, 1930. For generations
Ruth's family have been linked with
our college history, serving as trustees, faculty members, in the alumnae organizations. The framed diploma of her mother, Margaret (Cox)
Tuggle, '58 is one of our treasures.
-oOo-
1899
Class Secretary, Mary (Park) Polhill.
Next Reunion, 1931Across a sea of silence lasting
nearly thirty-one years have come
letters from five of the members of
the class of 1899.
From El Paso, Texas comes a letter from Sara (Thomlinson) Ivey
telling of her four fine sons; the
eldest is a graduate of the engineering department of Vanderbilt Univtrcity. The second son is now a student at Auburn, Ala.
Sara writes most interestingly of
the Mexican people whose language
she is studying so that she may work
among them when her youngest boy
is grown and Sara is "out of a job"
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LaGrange College.
In 1904 Leila Williams married Dr- with civic work. She writes that L- are Glen (Allen) Garrett, Martha
Wyatt C. DeLamar- In 1906 she was ] C still occupies a big Place in her (Tomlinson) Ivey and Lutie Neece.
heart.
Maidelle (Cleveland) Briggs lives
left a widow with one little daughter,
Margaret (Dunson) Davis is still in Greenville,. S- C-, but enjoys visitLillian- In 1908 she married Walter
represented at L. C- by her daughter ing other places with her husband
Tucker and since then has never: Gordo, a member of the Honor Club who is a Civil Engineer and Municilived far from her Alma Mater. and President of Student Govern- pal Contractor.
Lillian DeLamar is a teacher of ment.
Carrie Moore (Fleeth) Cook's son
Austin
is as big as she is and a high
piano in LaGrange, and William and
-oOoschool student. Carrie Moore's beauElizabeth Tucker, are students in the
tiful garden is a constant joy to her
high school. Leila writes of her in1904
Mother, all her friends and herself.
terest in all L. C. girls and thinks the
Dick, Jr. aged 4 and Emily age 3
students are most generous to allow Class Secretary, Leila, (Irvin) Barn- are making life interesting for Emma
ett.
the alumnae this use of the Scroll(Bradfield) Willis while her other
child, Ina (named for Ina Bacon) is
Since her graduation, Kate (BradNext Reunion, 1933.
at G. S. C. W- a member of the Sefield) Brown's further adventures in
Emma (Quillian) Singleterry writes nior classeducation range from a one teacher
"My most absorbing interest is that
-oOocountry school to County Superinten- of 'house keeping and home-making'
dent of Public Schools, Henry county, for my splendid planter and cattle
1907.
which position she had held through raising husband and four wholesome,
happy
children.
I
would
love
to
be
two county elections. Among
her
remembered to the old girls and Class Secretary, Yula May (Smith)
other other activities are work in P.
teachers I knew at L. C- I am al- Carter. Next Reunion—1933T. A., U- D. C.i and Church. She was ways so happy when I meet anyone
Glenn (Allen) Garrett sends a kocounty chairman of Womans Division" from the old college.
dak taken on the.oocassion of a birth3rd Liberty Loan Drive.
Leila (Irvin) Barnett writes, "How day dinner of her little Jean Allen,
Stella Bradfield received her M- A. delightful it is to be back in La-j age 9- Her other little daughter Emat Columbia in 1922, awarded a Grange! When I left the college, ily Quillian, age 5, is also in the
picture.
-oOoFellowship in Education at Smith little did I dream of ever living i
again under its very shadow. After | Last summer with her family,
College in 1926-27. Since then has
riding the Hall Circuit with my. which includes Carolyn, 14 and Wil1900
taught Physiology and Education at preacher husband for four years, liam, 10, Etta (Hobgood) McNeil enLaGrange and WinthropNext Reunion 1932.
then spending the next 14 years in joyed a trip out West. In her home
Mary Nix is enjoying a happy home Dalhlonega, Rome, Manchester, Kirk- town of Fairburn, she's SuperintenMary Lizzie (Anderson) Watson's
wood, Atlanta, my husband was sent dent of Primary department in Sunmarried life carried her first to Ha- life with her mother and sisters at'
to LaGrange, as presiding elder of day School, active in the Garden Club,
vana, Cuba then back to the U. S., j their hospitable home in West La- the district, in Nov. 1928- His moth- U- D. C, P. T. A. and Missionary
j Grange. The beautiful old English
where she has since "stayed put" in
, house, the georgous flower gardens er was a LaGrange College girl of Society. In her home, Rhode Island
Lima, Ohio. She writes: I have five . and the beautifully lanscaPed lawns the class of 1872, so you know he is Red chickens, have an important plWe have a fine boy i n
children that began raising whoopee are a source of joy and pride to all all rightOne ace—strange to relate— along with
before Webster knew there was such LaGrange. Mary is one of our two high school, Merriwether, Jr.,
of the joys of the itineracy has been vegetables and flower gardensa word—have nursed every child's alumnae trustees.
She writes "no one appreciates the
The last news from Ernestine' meeting up with old L. C- friends. I :
disease known to science, multiplied
must
write
of
two
very
popular
teainfluence of L- C. or cherishes the
by five—Hope to come back to L. C- Dempsey was that she is teaching in chers and foi'mer room-mates of mine
memory of Uncle Rufus more than
Girls Hi in Atlanta|
often now as the famly s about
Irene Butler Daniel is studying for Daisy Hemphill and Elizabeth Green. I do-"
grown up-"
Personal and Guidance work at Co- Miss Hemphill left the Collego to en- i Alverda (Ragsdale) Rowe, for five
Rosebud (Dixon) Callahan, since lumbia.
She writes an interesting ter the Itineracy with Rev. Clayton.
O- Tuttle of the Virginia Conference- years was a high school teacher,
she lost her husband three years ago, two years at Unversity of N- CHe is a presiding elder and they are
ning School for
:
studying
and
acting
secretary
to
the
has lived in Woodbury, now looking
j Professor o f Dramatic Literature. now living in Portsmouth. They have Christian workers in Nashville, did
after her mother who has been quite
"I am working on
programs and a lovely daughter and splendid son in Social Service in Atlanta Mills, tauill this spring.
Her daughter is helping with the tours of the "Car- College at Blackstone, Va.
ght with her husband in the mounAfter traveling all over the world,
teaching in Tifton.
olina Players" and was one of them,
; tains of Western North Carolina and
Lost Addresses:
taking a part on the sta?e in a sum- Miss Green has settled down in Washis now back in Atlanta, still busy,
mer Production. She writes: "Pres- ington, Ga., to take care of her mo- i
Rebie Neese
ident Thompson gave me an oppor- ther- She writes as delightfully as this time with her home and three
Willie (Crawford) Johnson
tunity several summers ago, to visit she talks, and her articles appear in children; Mary Frances, 13, Marjorie
Marion Clifton
students who were interested in the several of the leading magizines. She 11, James, 20 months, the last namLouise (Moate)) Reeves
college and I found it a pleasure to is more charming even than when ed occupying most of her time. She
Carol (CaPPs) Staples.
tell them how much going to La- • at L- C-, and evidently has found the hopes to have some daughters PreFountain of Youth, as she does not
Ethel Lively.
Grange had meant to me."
look
a day older than she did then. I pared to enter L. C in a few years.
Lost Addresses:
Wherever I find L- C. 8irl», they] Alverda writes that her sister, Key
Ella Bussey.
-oOoare a credit to their Alma Mater, ad- after teaching four years, is now
orning the home, uplifting the busi-oOo1901
Mrs. J. H- Burgess and lives in Decness world, -leaders in religious and
civic affairs; in whatever realm you tur. Her two sons are William,13
1902
Class Secretary, Kate (Bradfield)
and John 2.
find them, they ring true.
Brown
Class Secretary, Lois (Cotton) Ellis
It is deeply gratifying to see the
Midst orange groves in Upland,
Next Reunion 1932.
improvements at the College, and to California. Adelaide (Hall) Plum
Next Reunion 1932.
know of the great interest Mr. and has a little home where she is very
Her classmates sympathize with
For fifteen years Lilla Tuck has
Mrs- Samuel C- Dobbs and others
happy when she is through with cleribeen Secretary of Athens District, Berta (Pennington) Campbell in the are manifesting in it.
loss of her baby from diphtheria in
Woman's Missionary Society and she
Here's for a greater and even more cal work for one of the world's lemon
1928. Of her other six children there
glorious
LaGrange College. Let's kings. In war times, she was honored
attended the 1929 Council in Wash- are tw grown daughters one mar0
celebrate
our
hundredth anniversary with a certificate of appreciation
ington. She writes: "I not only en- ried, the other teaching.
in 1931 in a manner that will be from the government for her "bit"
Girls, can you Picture Edna (Philjoyed the meeting, but visiting hiscreditable and enduring.
in Red Cross work.
pot)
Trippe as "farmerette" From
toric scenes around Washington and
Estelle (Jones) Culpepper is the
her beautiful country home near Hoooo
Virginia—attended the reception giv- j
gansville she writes with enthusiasm
wife of a capable conference instren by Mrs. Hoover to the council
of her turkeys, her chickens, etcuctor in S- S. Training Schools.
1906members and visitors and attended Let's meet with Edna for a class rePalmyra (Burnside) Burks is the
services in the little Quaker meeting unon and have an old time fried Class Secretary, Carrie (Moore)
mother of two boys, the eldest at
house where the Hoovers worship." chicken dinner! How about it, Edna? Cook Next reunion—1933.
Ga. Tech, a busy housekeeper in her
The class secretai-y, with her (now
Birmingham home, and interested in
For nineteen years Lilla has taken
Lillian (Hicks) Webb, writes that church and club work.
her mothers place in the home and Presiding Elder) husband, two young
lady daughters and son, are serving "its good to be addressed once more
Martha (Tomlinson) Ivey who has
helped in th rearing cf most of the
the DeLand District, which extends as "Lillian" for since her sixteen been a widow for some years, is a
19 grandchildren, three of whom over two hundred miles. Last served years parsonage life she has been successful teacher, mother anr house
have already attended L. Cthe First Church in Jacksonville. Af- either "Mrs. Webb or "Sister Webb". keeper. She has a son in Ga. Tech,
In addition, Lilla is teaching Sun- ' ter 24 years I still enjoy being a While her husband rides the Way- the other two still in Public School.
cross Distinct as Presiding Elder,
Yula May Carter has four children
day School, leader of Business Worn- Methodist Preacher's wife.
she looks after her two girls and one Claire, a Junior at L. C. where she
Cleta
(Quillian)
Cleveland
is
keepen's Circle and in charge of study'
ng bonse for her husband and a hus- boy, besides working in the Sunday represents 4 generations in the
department in circle of Missionary ky 14-year-old boy and teachng in School and Missionary Society"Daughters Club," Alwyn in the 6th
Society.
Other LaGrange girls in Waycross grade. Mary, the 1st grade, and Hal
high school, her spare hours filled
classes of college girls in Sunday ;
as she expresses it.
She
Do you remember what a wizzard. school for numbers of years.
Anna Quillian was in Analytic Geo-'. has been treasurer of the missionary
metry while most of us struggled society for fifteen years ,has served
through it wondering vagely what it as President of the local chapter U.
D. C. and as regent of the D. A. R.
was all aboutMarilu (Ingram) Lecher's Consul
From Arnoldsville, Ga.. Anna, who'
is Mrs. T. H. Dillard, writes of her General husband has served his
four daughters and two sons.
Her country a t Copenhagen, Denmark
oldest daughter is married and the and Antwerpt, Belgium, where they
mother of a fine boy. One daughter now reside. Her oldest daughter,
is a teacher and one of the sons is was educated in the University o f
at the Univ. of Ga- Two daughters Paris. The other two are in the
and a son are still at home, one of good old U. S- A. attending Wellesly
the girls completing high school this College.
Lilias Fleming, Helen Huntley, Luyear.
cile
Newton, Mattie Byrd Watson and
Anna speaks of her fond memories
Lilian
Neal have answered the final
of the college and promses to return some day to the beloved Hill. roll call. These broken links bring
May Belle Dixon, was another of the only shadows across the bright
our mathematics sharks, wasn't she? memories that cluster around our
Don't you know she has made an school days together at our beloved
excellent wife for her doctor hus- Alma Mater.
band. She is Mrs- J- M. McKenzie of Lost Addresses:
Willie (Hardy) Lovelace.
Thomaston, Ga. Her three daughters are Isabelle, Jacqueline and Ann . Aurena (Evans) Burgess
Lila Park
Elizabeth. The eldest graduated at
Mary (Quillian) Harrell
Randolph Macon in 1927- The secAnita Stroud.
ond is a junior at LynchbuTg now,
and the youngest will go there this
fall after her graduation from high
school in June- May Belle says she
is looking forward jto the alumnae
issue of the Scroll to Put her in touch
with her class mates againAllie BealPs letter comes from her
old home at Carrollton, where she is
now an underwriter for an insurance
company after about twenty years
in the school room. Could you imagine a single one of our classmates
who would be a better one?
Her
niece May Beall Yancey is a senior
at L- C. now, a bright, sweet spirited
girl like Alie was.
The next letter from the class of
'99 was from Leila (Parks) Erwin,
wife of the pastor of the Methodist
church at College Park, Ga.
Leila
has seven children, all about grown
except a little boy of eight.
Her
namesake daughter is a freshman at
LaGrange College now and is a
strong link binding Leila's past and
present interest in her Alma Mater.
For nearly thirty years Leila has
traveled over the North Ga.. Conference as the wife of an itinerant
Methodist Preacher.
As you mentally call the roll of our class, could
you pick out one more ideally fitted
to meet the demands of this most
useful, but very exacting life?
Idella Bellah comes back often to
commencement and is an active member of the Atlanta Alumnae Chapter- She is a very efficient busine«
woman having an office in the Fulton County Court house in Atlanta.
Alice (Jenkins) Sherman, lives in
Columbus, Ohio. She was back for
a brief visit a few years ago, telling
of her grown sons and a very full,
active life.
Mattie (Loffin) Smalley, of Thompson, Ga., had a pretty daughter in
college here a few years ago.
No
greater testimony is needed as to the
affection and loyalty Mattie feels for
LaGrange CollegeLizzie Gray, now Mrs- R. L. Adams
of LaGrange, has a daughter, Eleanor, who is now a freshman at the
college. She was a first honor graduate of the City High School last
year. Lizzie's other child is a son,
Robert Jr.. who is also very bright
and ambitious.
You would expect
Lizzie's children to show just such
qualities wouldn't you ?
Mary Park had her boarding; school
experience at Weslyan graduating
there in 1901She taught three
years then married T. G- Polhill a
school teacher himself, and a graduate of Mercer Univ. Their home is
in the very shadow of the college and
they are interested in evrything that
goes on on the Hill- Mary has taught
April, 1930.
LaGrange College,
who will be 3 in June.
Teresa (Thrower) Buckannon sends
greetings to her friends and classmates and writes:—"I wish I could
see every one of you and hear how
all your dreams and plans came outThe only degree of importance I have
taken is M. R. S- It was quite romantic though as I met mine while doing entertainment work in France.
That trip with its attendant circumstances will always be remembered!
In Atlanta, where we live most of
the time, our greatest interest is the
LaGrange College Club, meeting friends, interesting high school girls in
our College and working for a more
beautiful and perfect College- As we
are in the "Movie News" we spend
the winters in sunny Florida- This
year, the beach pyjamas and the
whale that weighs five tons seems
to be exciting the most interest- We
are watching the mails for news,
from all our old friends in- the Alumnae Scroll".
Lost addresses:
Bell (Arnold) Bryant
Maggie Anderson.
o QO
1908.
Class Secretary, Ellie Gray. Next
Reunion—1934Sallie (Bohannan) McConnell claims she has done none of the broad
and interesting things, never had
time or talent for them- But she's
the proud mother of Willington and
Betty, both in Druid Hills District
School. She writes "Don't you wisfh
we could have a class reunion."
Lula Wellington and Adelaide Rollins married cousins and are now in
the same family of Neals. Lula has
three daughters of whom Mary and
Margaret are studying piano under
Natalie (Cooper) Buchannan. Ann,
the family pet is 2 yearsAfter losing her husband in uhc
War. Bertha (Burnside) Forney has
bravely "carried on" for her three
children and says "I've often been
grateful for all L C. experience because it has helped me over many
rough Places. Her daughter, Frances
was an honor graduate from High
School, elected class speaker for commncement, and won the Scottish Rite
medal for work in every class.
Mary Green is now in Hoke Smith
Junior High School where she has
been head of the English DePt. for
seven years. She writes of stulying
at various institutions and says "I
still consider that the training I received at LaGrange has been of great
er value to me than that received at
any other institution"From Ocola. Fla-, Mary (Stanton)
Gardner writes of her family: Stanton, age 17, whom the girls call "good
looking", Dorathy age 15, with high
scholarship to her credit; Mary Eleanor, age 11, a red-headed, freckled
tomboy— all wonderful to Mary who
says her constant prayer is "make
me worthy of being a Mother" She
still dreams of school experiences and
wakes to "long for old L. C. days,
old friends and wishes that by some
miracle we could all be together there
again.
Ellie Gray since her return from
Mission work in Korea is active in
religious work—now a Director of
young People's Dept- in the Methodist Sunday School- On week days
she does Secretarial work at General
Offices, S. W. LaGrange Mills.
Willie Bill (Moncrief) Ragsdale beean working on L. C- grounds a number of years ago when she was presi-
THE SCROLL
dent of local Alumnae. Since then
her interest and energy has been unflagging, much of the improvement
of the Hill due to her activity.
Lost Addresses:
Mary Fox
Annette Mayo
Pauline (Powledge) Wooten
Dura (Upshaw) Young
Florence Dye Ivey.
four new Americans to sPeak the
English language (though the two
newest ones still have an accent-)
My class roll runs like this:—
Lucian Fielding Bennett and Anne Augusta, aged nine, seven, four
and two years respectively.
Rpril, 1930
Lucille (Jones) Partin
Allena (Stone) Graham.
-oOo-
1911Next Reunion—1934-
mer school. While they were studying at Peabody, I studied music under Dr. Winkler at Ward-BelmontThat was a wonderful summer, was'nt it Sue? Next year I taught with
Sara Ritchie. You remember, don't
you Sara ? It was there I met the
Man in the Moon and went to "Shirland" .Scottsville. Va-, to live. This
wonderful Moon Man is merchant,
farmer - methodist-democrat - aristocrat all round jolly, good fellow. One
dear boy is now a busy third grader.
Our home is on a beautiful Virginia
Plantation, a few miles from "Monticello" and near the Uuiversity of
Va. The idea of the Scroll is great,
but I would like better a 'stroll' over
dear old L- C- camPus; with friends
and class-mates of 1914.
Backward, turn backward
O Time in your flight
Make me an L. C. girl
Just for to-night.
Sue Green has received a Masters
degree at Oglethorpe, but declares
she always claims LaGrange as her
own Alma Mater.
She has spent every year except
one in the school room, most of the
time teaching Mathematics in the
Bass Junior High. She writes that
Florence Few Moon's son is big
enough to send her a valentineSarah Tatum Reeds boy is big enough to take girls to parties and her
daughter is not far behind. When Sarah is not singing in the choir, teaching in Sunday school, and during the
week third grade at Harwell Ave.
She can usually be found in her lovely little "house in the woods" at the
far end of Springdale DriveLost Addresses:
Eddie Mae (Chastain) Long
Ruth SParks-
From far away Cathay comes a
message to Miss Muller from Nyui
Tsung Lee now Mrs. Pao Ling Yang,
enclosing a picture of her children,
0O0
—
taken several years ago. Four manly
Chinese boys are grouped round a
1909.
chair in which sits—.both upright—a
darling baby girl. From Teinsin she
Class Secretary, Hallie Smith, Next feel free to 1uit
After this I taught expression writes: "My little girl Mei-Mei is in
Reunion—1934.
T,,
„
„. . niners"
.
„ have
,
,., , : seven years, English one JW*I
year, and the fourth grade of music and can
The "naughty
settled
Play the "Scarf Dance" very well
so quietly into their proper niches the SeC°nd grade tw° ^ears- <Now from memory. I will ask her to write
that it has been hard to discover ™ St°P """^rating 3**™ *<" **r to you an English letter- I am sendsome one might add them all up.
ing two embroidered pieces, one for
their activities.
One year, I came near getting into you. Please ask Miss Maidie to accept
Maybelle Mattlhews. after wrestlpolitics, having been appointed by the other with my love and remembring with six grades in a one teacher
Mrs. Edgar Alexander, another old ance of her kindness. My big son,
school for twelve years, has turned
Ling-Ling n nearly as tall as I amLaGrange girl, as the woman repre- ]
to the less strenuous task of raising
His violin teacher has asked him to
sentative from our district to the ;
strawberries and pecans, as well as
try Fiorillo EtudieHe has studied
first Democratic Convention where
looking after the duties of their
with Mr. Cb.alu.pa, an Austrian for
women were delegates. I could not
household for her mother.
three yearsmake up my mind to leave a new
Elizabeth Smithwick is competing
.baby,
»
...
r
K„ v__-__.
however, so stayed at home for
ooo
■
her ninth year as teacher 0f Latin in t.
.„ _ ,
,
the only good reason why a woman
the LaGrange High School.
I , ,,
• should not enter politics.
1912.
Corrine (Jarrell) Keough is enjoy- j «MiB8 JuMa„ wanted us tQ ^ a.
Class Secretary, Eunice McGee, Next
ing another cruise in the Carribean. bout ourselves> but thjs {g embarras.
Reunion—1930Ava (Widner) Holderfield is quite sing. I much Prefer a reminscence of
Mattie (SharPe) Mincey is teachhappily engineering her household the old days when Sisters and I went ing in the Ogeechee schools while
of four youngsters ranging in years Up the old College Hill together so her husband works for Uncle Sam.
from fourteen to three. She keeps happily every day.
Her two daughters are in Jr. High.
up a LaGrange College contact in
Once I walked on torn-walkers up
Dr. Susan Willard- Brown rePre
sending tlhree of her children to nearly one hundred steps to my mu- sents the class on the mission field,
school at the Five Points Consolidat- sic lesson,—without breaking my serving as medical missionary in
ed School, Five Points, Alabama, neck.
China.
where three L. C girls are teaching
T wish : cou]d see a„ the good oJd
Eunice McGee after spending a
Margaret Edmondson, Claire. Hill, crowd again! I wish I could smell number of years in LaGrange Public
and Elizabeth Holliday.
j the magnolias on the commencement Schools is now a supervising teacher
Leila Dillard W:hi.pple writes: Ten stage!
in East Carolina Teachers College.
years ago. last fall, as principal of. I am trying to .be a worthy daugh- Greenville, N. C She has accepted
the Emory University Grammar Sdh- ter of my Alma Mater and help along a .position to teach there again next
-oOoool, I promised to help in the illiter- to better things. At present. I am ! summer and writes of her deep reacy campaign to be conducted in the Parliamentarian for our Woman's gret that she cannot attend her class
1916.
county next springClub, Chairman of a missionary cir- reunion because she's "hired out and
c,e and
a
fur
Piece
from
home"
but
insist
My mother and I were living with
President of the Woman's
that Maud Patrick and the others Class Secretary, Jennette Wilhoute,
my sister and her .hucband, Mr- and Christian Temperance UnionNext Reunion—1931.
Mrs. J. E. Stipe, and we had moved' We live in Cochran on the Dixie have it anyway.
Florence (Dunson) Hutchinson is in
the summer before, along with six-, Highway, two doors from the Methodcharge
of a young peoples depart-oOoteen professors' families, in that ist Church. My mother, whom some
ment in the Sunday school, also serv1913.
"Exodus" from old Oxford to the of you know, lives with us. We wish
ing cheerfully with every good or"Promised Land" of the new Emory you would stop by to see usganization in LaGrange.
Next Reunion—1935
Greetings to all the old girls! I am
University.
Martha (Ware) Gandy is an ineager to read the news from all.
Ruby (Newson) Campbell writes of terested worker in organizations of
A grammer School for the children
Sincere thanks to the editors of her pride in the growth and progress
of the community was begun and I
the Baptist Church, and busy all the
the Scroll, and love and loyalty to of her Alma Materwas elected Principal with two "coweek keeping books for her husbands
LaGrange always.
Ruby is vice-president of LaGrange businesseds" as assistants- One of these was
At a recent Y- W- C. A. conference Alumnae Club in Atlanta, Circle
Ethel Pike, another LaGrange girl.
Jeannette Wilhoite is Librarian at
there was overheard a rather agit- chairman of Emory W- M. S. and has
This was a school of seven grades |
LaGrange Memorial Library.
ated enter-collegiate controversy : had two semesters on Child Psycholowith an enrollment of forty-three PuLast summer, Annette Patton made
pils- We taught in three ante-rooms "She's ours" contended the student in gy at Emory University- Her young- an automobile tour of twenty two
to the stage of the old chapel. This brown uniform. "She belongs to us. est daughter is named for her dis- states, and spent six weeks at the
school has since grown into the mag- we had her first" claimed the La- tinguished aunt, Annie E- Campbell University of California. After a couGrange student. G. S- C- W. may be '97, a former Secretary and Treanificent Druid Hills High School just
rse in Physical Education at Uuiverin the possessive case at Present but surer of Mission Board in China.
off the University campus.
sity of Ga-. she is teaching in city
our College always claims Hallie
schools of Greensboro, N- C.
As I said, I had volunteered my
Smith as her very own child. She was
oOo
services as a teacher of adult illiterreared and educated on the old Hill,
ooo
ates, in a campaign to begin after
1914.
born in the College when her grandChristmas. During the holidays, an-,
father was President and both her Class Secretary, Sara (Tatum) Reed
1917.
other promise seemed to hold Pre- ■
brilliant parents were members of the Next Reunion—1935.
cedence, though, and I married a
faculty. Since receiving her M. A.
"Dearest all of you in the class of Class Secretary, Ruth (Pike) Key.
Harvard graduate, known in his home Haljie has taught in LaGrange High 1914" begins a letter from Florence! Next Reunion 1931town of Cochran as "Colonel" Whip- School, was one of three LaGrange (Few) Moon. "There isn't so much' The busy record of Annie Bell Ropie,—to his colored clients, as "Law- girls teaching in Druid Hills High to tell about myself, though 16 years gers includes teaching English in
School; taught at L- C- where she have passed since we left dear old Henry Co. High School, Jonesboro
yer Whipple."
High School, Barnesville A & M
was voted most popular teacher; now
L. C. I taught winter and summer
Ten years have rolled around and
School, summer study resulting in an
at G. S- C- W. where she is equally
the first six years, except one. That A.M. degree at Georgia in 1928there are four little WhiPples to add beloved.
summer, with Sue Green and her
to our country's census. I have helped . Lost Addresses:
This year she is having an enforcsister, Mary. I went to Peabody sum- ed rest because of chronic laryngits
ed teach two illiterates to read, and' Eugenia (Christian) Swift
A little more than twenty years
ago, LaGrange College was good enough to let me have three diplomas,
A. B., Music, and Expression. I had
attended college eleven years so they
gave me several diplomats so I could
LaGrange College.
from which she is entirely recovered.
While thus resting she is doing work
among young people as SuPt. of young people in Missionary Society, leader of an active auxiliary, and assistant teacher in Sunday School classAnnie Bell is a member of Henry
County Alumnae Club.
Helen (Harris) Sloan continued
'her voice study at the Atlanta Conservatory of Music- While teaching
music in McDonoueh, one of her pupils won the Sixth District Medal.
For two years she was soloist at WS- B- radio station, at various times
soloist for Atlanta Exchange Club
and American Legion. Her two children are Wyman. 10" and Anne Helen,
8.
Ruth Pike, an A. B. of '17. who is
Mrs. William C. Kev of Columbus,
writes that her principal interest is
home and 2 Bills - Billv. -Tr-. 0 years
old. Fiith has continued her study
of music. bMones to a stndv club and
a music club. She tea"hes piano and
Rvnression and to quote her exactly
"dings here, thprn. and yonder" She
is S"T>t. of a .Tr- Pe-n't in First BaPt'«t Church and member of LaGrange
Alnmnae Club in ColumbusHer classrmates will be delighted
+o know that Marv Lee (Edwards)
TCvArett nlans to attend commencement tliis vear. Wo hone she brings
along Frank Jr. and Marianna.
-op,o1918
Class Secretarv- Mary (Connally)
Frost
Next Reunion 1931
First, there's Maude Harris, that
always intriguing little person,
whom so many of us remember affectionately. She taught Span!sh
in Cartersville and the elementary
schools of Emory University where
sb" received her Master's degree.
She's now Mrs. Wm. Boyst and
writes that her blue-eyed baby boy
is just too sweet and good for
words.
Dear little
Nellie
(Humber)
Thompson writes that she married
a childhood sweetheart. It grieves
us to
know that
this little wit is at times quite dispairing,
for one thing, she is fat, and another, her lovely seven year old
daughter, Jean, in the second
grade and never off the honor roll,
prefers scaling trees and telephone
poles to sitting at the piano and
diligently practicing as her mother did for Miss Muller.
Helen (Clark) Grady, that delightful reader, taught seven years
in LaGrange, took courses at University of Term.; University of Va.;
Peabcciy and Columbia.
Helen
claims she's married to the nicest
man in the world and her hobbies
are flower garden and chickens.
Dorothy (Bledsoe) Brown, who
received her art diploma, is not
allowing her soulful and artisfic
temperament to desert her, for tho
a competent and much rewarded
person in the business world, she
is yet an idealist. She writes of
her visits to L. C. "That every time
I come away it is with a feeling of
the worthwhileness of the ideals toward which we strive." Just now
she and her husband are so happy
coaxing flowers to bloom in a
charming little garden.
Mary Kate (Clements) Key, in
addition to her charming housewifery and social life in Columbus, has never neglected her beloved violin. She has a precious
brown-eyed boy of 3 1-2 years.
Her LaGrange friends will long
remember the beautiful church
wedding of Ethel <Pike) Daugerty,
now living in Crisfleld, Md. She
received her Master's degree at Emory University.
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Mary (Hunter) Lindsey is the
wife of a M. E. preacher and active
!in church. She has two children.
Leila Patterson, who charmed
and thrilled us with her beautiful
voice in light opera in Atlanta, is
now studying in N. Y., where we
predict a prima donna is made
of this attractive person.
Nancy Doster has continued her
study of voice and music in New
York.
Leila Scarborough is married
and lives in Sarasota, Fla.
Mrs. Sam Hearn, a graduate in
organ at L. C, is organist at Hyde
Park M. E. church in Tampa, Fla.,
and Mrs. Ed Carswell, another
graduate in voice, is soprano in the
same choir.
Elmira Grogan is pursuing her
literary talents and has several delightful stories to her credit.
Mary (Connallv) Frost taught
one year in the McDonough High
School, a graduate one year, a
bride the next of Captain Robert
C. Frost, who had just returned
from service in air corps of allied
forces in France. Mary studied interior decoration and was connected with an interesting little antique shop in Virginia. "Jack" is
with the Publix Theatres, which
corporation keeps them constantly
on the jump. Their last "jump"
was from High Point, N. C, to Birmingham.
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little girl, Margaret, in the Ladies
Home Journal of November, 1929.
Allyne Mayfield received a Master's degree from Emory Univerrsity
and is now teaching in Druid Hill's
High School, Atlanta.
Agnes Combs is teaching in the
Presbyterian Home for Children,
Talladega, Ala.
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April, 1930.
Mabel White is teaching at Stovall, Ga.
Margaret (McDonald) Brown,
who lost her husband some time
ago, is now principal of the Bolton school.
We would like to mention that it
was the class of '22 that founded
the "Quill Drivers," edited the first
•'Scroll" and it was Russell Brown
who drew the heading for it.
that time she traveled through Old
Mexico; is now in Mullens, W. Va.
Lillian adds the following:
Right now at LaGrange High,
Tommie and I have rooms right
across the hall from each other
and see each other no less often
than between classes. She teaches
history and I English. Tommie
says that is her whole biography,
but it's not. She has a M.A. from
Emory with at least twelve weeks
on a Ph.D. and aspirations for
Cornell. She keeps at least half
a dozen different activities on the
string all the time and keeps them
all going with pep and enthusiasm
that's amazing. After teaching in
Adel, Ga., Saluda, S. C, and Albany, Ga., I came home last year
to teach here, with only one summer session to my credit. It is so
much fun to be here for the alumr^e meetings. I do wish all our
class could come to commencement.
1921
Class Secretary: Sara Davis
1924
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Class Secretaries: Tommie Martin
Ruth (Baker) Moody has three
and Lillian Clark
children, a future L. C. girl (we
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hope) and twin boys. Ruth was
wise when s he chose a country
Tommie and Lillian sent in the
home with "plenty of range for her following excerpts from their classflock."
mates' letters:
Thelma(Chum ) Woodruff is in
B. A. (Teasley) Corley:
Atlanta now, so Flora Rankin
"Am enclosing a snapshot of our
writes.
baby girl, thought you'd like to
Flora (Franklin) Burkhalter is at have an idea of how she looks—
Hickory, N.C., near Blue Ridge, for Tommye Elizabeth — Betty for
which place Flora acquired a ten- short. You can imagine where my
der feeling when she was our del- time is spent—in the nursery, of
1925
egate there.
course. If all goes well, I expect
Class Secretary: Margia Beard
Anna (Biggers) Howie has taught to be in LaGrange a year from
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school and played with an orches- this May."
Amanda Glenn received her M.A.
tra, but is happier playing with her
Grace Hale:
fine two year old boy.
"I am no longer a school marm, degree from the University of
Frances (Williams) "Cut" Glass as you will see from the stationery. Georgia in 1928. She is now Dean
is keeping house right under the I am working in a law office as a of the new Burke Junion College
shadow of the College. Fiances is stenographer and general office at Waynesboro, Ga. Amanda is
still loyal and spends part of her worker. I taught school five years giving a LaGrange College scholtime working for L. C.
and decided to give it up for sever- arship next year to one of the girls
Sara Davis, after teaching in al reasons. I have attended one in her school. In addition to her
■ as dean, Amanda .is teaching
Georgia and Tennessee, a counsel- j summer session at the University
lor at Camp Dixie, is now working. of Georgia. I am still an unclaim- psychology, calculus, and analytic1919
al Geometry.
for a Master's degree, in cap and; ed blessing!!!"
Miriam (Spruell) Downs writes,
Ciass Secretary: Marion Van Gor- PDron, majoring in Nursing at VanMildred (Pinkerton) Shearer:
"We have just moved into our own
der
derbilt University.
"Since 1924 I have remained home, a farm, about a mile and a
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faithful
to my calling—school half from Watkinsville. The pretRuth (Henderson)
Pentecost,
teaching.
In May, 1926, at the end ty days this week, I have made
1922
president of the class of 1919, has
a son eight years old.
Class Secretary: Eloise (Fullbright) of my second year's teaching, I good use of, in the yards, resetting
married my superintendent. We and planting shrubs. This is my
Iris (Fullbright) McMillan marWhite
both remained at Butler, Ga. un- big interest now—our home."
ried last July, and is living at
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Marion Lee is teaching in ClaxBrewton, Ala.
Could it have been just a co-in- til this year. At present my husDorothy (Bledsoe) Brown is a cidence that while Alice Sutton band is teaching school here and I ton, Ga.
1 Kowell has taught
business woman in Atlanta. Her was teaching in Nashville -5. broth- am teacher of the seventh grade.
ice leaving T,aOr*mere.
er of one of her pupils, Arnold Cyl- Therefore, we have all the whoohusband is a dentist.
Irene (Combs) Whittaker lives att, returned from a seven years' pee from somebody else's children. and was elected principal of the
I have completed three month's high school last year. At present
in LaGrange. She has two boys. stay in Panama? She writes "I've
work
toward a master's degree."
she is keeping house and going to
Veola (Jarrell) Estes has two always said I could never marry a
Sarah Brown:
school. She will receive her Masfat
man,
but
somehow
he
didn't
children.
"This is my first year at Abbe- ter of Science degree in June from
Robbie Lee Thompson is teach- look fat to me." She now lives in
ville, S. C. I teach Latin in high North Carolina State College. Sue
Valdosta, where she won distincing piano at Waldo Fla.
Marion Van Gorder is teaching tion as Unit Historian in Valdosta school. We, the faculty, have an says, "Since my husband is a
exciting basket ball game sched- teacher we are very congenial and
Public school music in Southwest American Legion Auxiliary. For
two years, she has won the Histori- uled for Monday night against th3 I can easily stay in the profession."
LaGrange.
After graduating, Margia Beard
cal Trophy presented to the unit, high school girls, and in practice
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having compiled the most data this morning I got knocked out joined that happy family of South1920
concerning the Legion and its aux- with a torn ligament in my foot, j west LaGrange school teachers,
Class Secretary: Georgia Haley iliary and war records of their' I'm just grieved to death because ■ where she continues a most popuI can't figure out how I'm going- lar member.
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county.
to
play on crutches."
Ola (Stephens) Adams' marriage
1926
From her home, right under the
Ruth (Cotton) Butler:
in 1921 made her the mother of "drippings of the sanctuary or
Class Secretary: Kathren (Young)
four step-children, two of them rather our dear old Alma Mater.": "I have a fine son, Charles, two
Freeman
new members of the "Daughter's Mattie McGee goes forth each day years old, and I've left it to the
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Club' 'at L. C. These four were to preside over Unity St. School as, others to have careers. We think
not sufficient for her to experi- principal. She was two years pres-, our baby is wonderful, of course.
Almost four years ago now since
ment with all her theories of child ident of local Alumnae club when; He is very fair, has light hair and twenty happy, yet sad girls marchrearing, so now there are four more she helped put on special work for! blue eyes. It doesn't seem possi- ed away from L. C. declaring that
little Adams. Yet there is still left the library and assisted the Cur-, ble that he could be my child. I'm they would come back early and
time for community work. She has tain Raisers in buying the new era- j hoping to be there for commence- even oftener if possible. But can
been an officer and active member tain. Last summer she went on ment this year."
you believe that only last comof the Woman's club; now presi- the Mayer's- California Summer
Mary Lane:
mencement I was the only 1926er
dent of Woman's Missionary Socie- School Tour, but admits she did not
"When I tell you that I am an on the hill? Now that looks rathty and active in Sunday school and j attend the school. Of course, she eld maid school teacher, I have er black to the outsider, but not to
church .always hospitable to visit-1 looked in on Mary (McGee) Wat- given you my history from the me because I set out to find some
ing church and welfare workers in i son while in Texas.
time Mr. Thompson handed me my excuse for all these absences and
her home. With much cooking! Beva McMillan says this is her diploma until now. I taught at have been well repaid for my insewing, growing flowers and vege- 5th year—on and off—teaching home one year, in Fitzgerald four, vestigations. These girls have not
tables, story telling, spanking, pet- "fiddle" on the "Hill."
and one here, all very happy, en- forgotten their school. The fact is,
ting and loving, her days are full
ble years. I have a small be- they have been so busy carrying on
hel (Pike) Daugherty is build —she's a busy woman and a happy
»ork and singing its praise in
1 home in Crisfleld, Md., and ginning toward an M.A. at Emory.
one.
I would like to go back to L. C. their separate places that they
expects to move in soon.
Georgia Haley has been head of
Lura Johnson is teaching Eng- and 'wield a wicked tray' just for have not been able to go back each
the history department, LaGrange lish at St. Mary's Female Semin- old times' sake."
year. It is always a good idea to
High School, for the past six years, ary. St. Mary's. Md.
Rebacca (Presley) Brown:
take stock every once in a while
having received her Master's de"I haven't done anything to add just to be sure we are not standing
Eloise Fullbright writes: "Leila
gree from University of Georgia. Cotton Rutland was sent to Law- any laurels to our hall of fame." still and I have found that each
She is treasurer of LaGrange renceville with her preacher hus- Rebecca adds the much desired girl is advancing in whatever work
Alumnae Club and actively inter- band. They have two adorable,
s: She taught piano in Cedar she has set her heart to do.
ested in the local organization.
Speaking of heart reminds me
bad boys. Gene, Jr., 7, and Walter, Eluff. Ala., one year; studied at
Coretta (Teasley) Stroud is liv- 5. We have good times visiting Chicago Musical College in 1926; cf our newest wedding. Yes, of
ing in Emporia, Kansas, where her each other. I, with my two kids, was director of music at Camp course I am thinking of our own
husband teaches in the University Theron, Jr.. 4, and Eloise, Jr., 3. Hill, Ala.; married on June 20, charming Lena Terrell. However,
of Kansas. Perhaps many of you Eloise's husband is superintendent 1928, and went to Southwest Tex- don't think that Lena has spent
as for a year and a half; during the last three years idly waiting
saw the beautiful picture of heri of schools.
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LaGrange College,
for her handsome blonde. She has
held a responsible position in LaGrange in the offices of the Callaway Mills. LaGrange is lucky-.to
be able to still claim this charming couple, Mr. and Mrs. John Weaver, and though Lena has given
up one job she has taken over another — ordering groceries every
morning.
I had a letter from Gertrude the
other day. You remember, she
went to Roanoke, Ala., to teach
and of course it did not take Austin Aubrey long to find out that
Gertrude was one of L. C.'s finest
girls and, well, they were married
after the first school term. She is
teaching only Expression this year
and expects to send two or three
of her pupils to L. C. next year.
And don't imagine that this makes
Gertrude neglect her five room
bungalow and Austin because she
is the kind to carry on all this in
a most systematic way.
I have not been able to hear
from Ellen Corn since she became
Mrs. Nelms, of Young Harris, but
she has one thing on the rest of
us—that is, she was married first
and maybe that has made her a
little shy. Evelyn Newton did not
waste much time after school before she convinced Earl Lewis that
all a young preacher needs is a
good wife. She has certainly carried out her promises. They went
to Gretna, Va., and did splendid
work in the church and community, Evelyn taking an active part in
every thing. I am sure of this because she wrote to borrow some of
my Glee Club costumes for a missionary program of some kind. Evelyn and Earl are back in Atlanta
this year fitting themselves for
better service. He is working for
another degree from Emory and
Evelyn has been taking a course
there also.
Emory University has the honor
of claiming another one of our
members. Jo Glenn has taken a
year from teaching and is working
for her Master's degree and a
course in religious education. Jo
and her mother are living in Atlanta and we enjoy getting together about once each month at the
Alumnae meetings. Our circle is
made up of the "later" graduates.
I will confess that although we are
doing some big work we take a few
minutes from each meeting to
check up on all the girls. Josephine reported at last meeting that
Mary Sams was in Atlanta selling
some new series of books, but I
have not been able to get in touch
with her. Jewell Dunn, Corinne
Martin, Mabel Morrow and Edith
Foster are still teaching, but am
uncertain about their addresses.
The last news from Elizabeth. Williams I think reported that she had
finally said "yes" to that "certain
person." "Cuba" Woodside is still
in Havana and some day I hope to
drop in on her classroom. Thelma
(Chunn) Woodruff, one of our talented specials, is taking an active
part in Alumnae work here here
in Atlanta.
I must tell you that I am lucky
enough to be near Christine
(Stubbs) Carmichael. Although
she finished in 1925 we always
claim her since our freshman year.
She is the same charming girl,
reader, hostess and wife. Our other reader, Nancy Smith, has been
teaching second grade in Gainesville since graduation and don't
you envy those little folks?
I stopped in Ringgold several
weeks ago to see if I could get any
news of Trundle. I found out that
Mr. Trundle had moved to Chat-
tanooga, but that Margaret was
working in New York. Just like
Margaret to roam as far as possible.
Last but not least I have five of
our most capable girls left, all
teachers. Ruth Davis and LaMartha McCaine won much favor in
Grantville High School, but decided to seek new fields this year,
Ruth choosing Fayetteville, Ala.,
and LaMartha going to Monroe,
Ga. Ruth has spared nothing to
become most efficient in French
and English and LaMartha still
shining in science, math and history.
Hogansville, Ga., still manages
to keep Elizabeth Tuck among its
treasures and McDonough still
claims Louise Leggitt. I heard
that McDonough also claims an eligible young man, but Louise can't
decide whether ,to say "yes" or
"no." She will no doubt weigh his
virtures as carefully as she did her
equations in math.
This brings me to the last item
of gossip, which is—that the L. C.
Club met with me last week and
just as the girls were beginning to
come some one called and said
they would be a little late. Well,
in just about an hour and a half
who do you suppose walked in?
Mildred Pendergrass. This was her
first time at the club and so she
laughed and said it wouldn't have
seemed like old times if she hadn't
been late. She is teaching in the
fine new East Point High School
and from all accounts has a splendid job. But she told us a secret
about her work, which goes to
show that you can do anything if
you have to. The secret is—she is
teaching penmanship. Now if you
have ever seen any of Pendy's
notebooks ,well, you can appreciate this joke and if you haven't,
well, you have missed a show.
I will be obliged to tell you something about the last name on roll.
Kat Young (Mrs. E. B. Freeman,
Jr.) thinks she is doing big things
as keeping house, in Atlanta, and
landscaping her new garden, and
looking after her Model Husband,
and writing for the Alumnae Club.
But to tell youth e truth she is the
same silly thing, always talking
about her beautiful Persian cat
that weighs ten pounds. And really, he is a beauty.
1927
Class Secretary: Mary Floyd
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Hetty Dunn has studied at University of Georgia toward an M.A.
degree and is now head of Science
department in Etowah High School
in Tennessee.
Sara Swanson -has had lovely
trips, 1928 to California ;in '29 to
Cuba; now teaching in Fairburn.
Mabel White is teaching music
in Glennville, Ga.
Frances Woodside is with the
American Consular Service in Havana as Spanish-English stenographer.
Polly, Smith, after studying music in Cincinnati in 1927-28, has
become Mrs. J. J. Evans and has
one son.
Ruth Strain last summer had the
pleasure of touring New York state.
She teaches third grade in Dalton.
Annie Smith is now teaching history and French in Stillmore. She
expects to begin work this summer
at University of Ga. toward a M.A.
degree.
Tommy Quarles is assistant principal in the Jessup High School.
She intends to study this summer
Wheeler, Wilma in Waynesville
for library work.
Deryl Manning is teaching pub- and Katherine at First Ward
grammar school in Charlotte. Still
lic school music in Jonesboro.
Hortense Hughes teaches fourth others are on the list—the where
and what they have not divulged,
grade at Bolton.
Josephine Glenn is a student at but somewhere teaching young idEmory University working for an eas to shoot are Lucrete Adams,
Elizabeth Cheatem, Elizabeth NorM.A. degree.
Grace Gibson received a certi- man, Mary Radford and Mary
ficate in dietetics from Piedmont Frances Wiggins.
Hospital, Atlanta, is now dietitian Then there is Mrs. Ray King, nee
in Appleton Church Home, Macon. Frances Matthews, not content
Mary Floyd, a former student with her newly acquired title, convolunteer of L. C, is now at Scar- tinues to teach at Avondale. And
vitt College, a candidate for M.A., Lura Lifsey, after two years at
majoring in New Testament. She Fitzgerald teaching expression,
has been made treasurer of Scar- will soon become Mrs. Carl Whitehead. Louise Scroggins may now
ritt student association.
Clara Louise Arwood holds a po- be found in Gainesville as Mrs.
sition of governness to four chil- George Walker, Jr. Violet Hampton, too, has joined the ranks of
dren in Atlanta.
Elizabeth (Hodges) Livingston the married, but her new name I
sends the following. Mayo and I cannot give you.
Of one artist and one banker we
have lived in Albany since we married. The main thing now is—we can boast. The artist you have
have a son, two months old, named already guessed: Carolyn McLenMay Livingston, Jr. We are aw- don is continuing to study and in
fully proud and I could tell you addition is working in a gift and
many things about him, but won't flower shop in Decatur. Georgia
take up your time. Hope to get Knox, after a business course was
back to L. C. some day, those good i mastered, began work at the Citiold days seem like a dream, and zens and Southern Bank in Atlanthat I am so wonderfully happy ta.
Nor is work all that L. C. girls
now with my husband and baby,
know. In spare moments they
I'm still dreaming.
How thrilling it was to see our travel. Sylvia Adams has had a
own Nell Childs playing Lydia Lan- wonderful trip abroad, and Georguish in "The Rivals," when the gia Knox writes of a delightful visCoffer-Miller players came to La- it to New York and Toronto with
Grange and to meet her gifted the former Frances Matthews.
husband, George Arliss Booth, who Katherine Wheeler tells of a motor
charmed all with his dramatic abil- trip thru Virginia to Washington,
ity before the lights, and, back and "Tealy" is still enthusiastic
stage, with his own delightful per- over a visit to New York, New Havsonality. It was a privilege to meet en, Annapolis and Niagra. Claire
the other interesting members of and Margaret answered the call of
this cultured company and grati- "Go West, young woman, go West,"
fying to know that Nell's "lines" which took us thru the Canadian
have fallen in such pleasant sur- Rockies, California, Yellowstone,
Grand Canyon, to Pike's Peak and
roundings.
'most everywhere.
1928
Finally, let me say that the class
of '28 is proud to furnish three efClass Secretary, Margaret Edficient officers in the Atlanta chapmondson
ter of L. C. Alumnae, Circle No. 2:
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Georgia Knox is president; Lucile
Cassels recording secretary and
"Artist, preacher, wife or nurse,
Banker, 'teacher, maker of verse." Carolyn McLendon corresponding
secretary, and they issue invitaIf the proverbial "rich man, poor tions to all who are interested to
man" counting of buttons was done attend their meetings on some first
by the class of '28 ,it is quite evi- Saturday of the month.
dent that most of our girls were
CLASS OF 1929
wearing six-button garments on
that great day o fdecision, else
"Truth is far stranger than ficwhy so many old-maid school
tion,' 'and the varied experiences
teachers?
that the girls of '29 have had since
There's "Tealy" Cassels and Virginia Mooty who have taught for leaving dear old L. C. are more astwo years in the Atlanta system of tonishing tha nany of the prophecies Virginia Smith made at comschools, "Tealy" at Avondale grammencement. But how could she
mar school and Virginia at College know a year ago, that our class
Park. Georgia Cobb is at Woodwould be scattered all the way
bury instructing the young, Franfrom New York to South Georgia;
ces' Doughman at Dalton, Hattie
that one half of the class would
McDougald at the Berry School in
"adore teaching," that one fourth
Rome and Mary Teasley in her
would be working toward degrees
home town, Bowman.
and that the rest would be making
Chattahoochee Valley has claim- wonderful progress in the business
ed two of our pedagogs, Elizabeth
Reeves at Langdale and Mary world?
No, I am not forgetting that one,
Lumpkin at Shawmut. Nearby in and only one, of our class is marAlabama at Five Points Consolidatried. Louise Kent is no longer
ed School, are Claire Hill, Elizabeth "Red," but Mrs. Harris Kimball, of
Halliday and Margaret Edmond- Finiey Avenue, Montgomery, Ala. I
son, Claire directing Physical Ed- saw her in Atlanta Christmas. She
ucation. Elizabeth at the piano, of said she had been helping her siscourse, Margaret teaching English ter-in-law, who is in high school,
and French in senior high school. with Shakespeare. Then she addGrace Gardner, too, is teaching ed that she was just realizing how
English and French at Molena, Ga. much Miss Sail's classes meant and
Sarah Leonard has English and that she thought she would like to
History at Spring Place; Lily Ev- teach herself, next year. As usual,
ans the same combination at Junc- Red looked happy and declared
tion City. Mary Hayes has the that married life was great.
English at Temple, Ga. this year
Since we are talking of redand Catherine Ingram is at Ap- headed people, listen what Kate
haretta. To North Carolina have Smithwick has to say from Chatsgone Wilma Hunter and Katherine worth, Ga.: "I am spending my
Rpril, 1930
first year out in the world in this
little town at the foot of Cohutta
Mountain, teach English and
French in high school, have a class
in Sunday school. Like all pupils,
mine enjoy playing tricks on their
teachers, they call me 'Miss Red,'
I enjoy teaching, but if you want
my heart to burst wide open just
mention L. C. days. Thru the
Scroll I send love to every classmate and college household."
Ruth Hill writes from Danielsville: "Teaching is a great profession, if you ask me; arriving in
Danielsville to begin work, trembling within and bold without, was
met by Aurelia Adams who was a
friend indeed. Being the only
teacher in the school who was new,
I had to work hard to do as well
as the others who laughed at the
stack of books I brought -home to
study. Along with school work
come other duties; was asked to
take charge of the library and music for chapel, helped in preparing exhibits for county fair, acted the hero part in a faculty play,
coached basket ball, coached a
play, planned literary society programs, gave talk at county teachers meeting. Besides school work,
I have a Sunday school class .attend Epworth League, member of
missionary society and woman's
club."
From Elizabeth Loyd, who Is
teaching French at Chickamauga:
"What is the life of a school teacher but exams to be graded, reports
to be made out, and gray hairs to
be collected when most of the children fail. Of course, there comes
a spark of joy when two pupils
make 96 on a final examination, or
some angel child brings a flower
and tells you what a sweet teacher you are. So while there are
thorns with every rose, the roses
still are mighty sweet."
Of course, this is Manita Hall
quoting the sayings of the class of
'29, for I would not be happy
unless I was collecting material for
the Annual, Scroll or newspaper.
And I have had plenty of work to
do along that line since I am teaching English, and one class of History in the Raburn Gap community high school. I can truthfully
say that I am "sitting on top of the
world," both literally and figuratively, since I am in the mountains of North Georgia, doing exactly the type of work I wanted to
do, and best of all, since I am
rooming with an old L. C. girl,
Sarah Barrett. I will let her tell
you the other facts about the place.
The "other facts" would require
another issue of the Scroll! Briefly, however, L. C. is represented in
both the high school and grammar school since I teach the fifth
grade and the sixth grade for half
the day—of a school under the
Rabun Gap-Nacoochee Corporation. Two schools are maintained
under this system, a grammar
school and high school for children of the corporation homes and
for the boarding students, mountain boys and girls isolated from
school advantages. Thirty teachers and workers compose the official staff of this and our school is
the second unit. It is across the
valley and enrolls the community
children.
Of course, our work among them
adds to teaching such duties as
coaching plays, working in the.
Sunday school. League, Woman's
Missionary Society, B. Y. P. u. and
playing for all occasions. The Tennessee Valley is beautiful beyond
description. Who could portray
a beauty and grandeur that thrills
LaGrange College.
one anew each morning and continues as-_'the changeless mountains' ever change in surprising and
aweing effects! The Valley people
are kindness itself and splendidly
co-operative, and the children are
not to be surpassed anywhere! Do
you wonder that we ,too, are in love
with our work—with the life made
possible by L. C. training and inspiration?
However, our own isolation caused our writing to Fannie Lou
Smith at Buford, Ga., and this was
her answer: "I'm just a plain, old
school marm at Milner, Ga. I have
an adorable room of children. They
are the sweetest, meanest, cutest,
dumbest and smartest—all wrapped into one. I'm crazy about
teaching."
Mattie Jo Pullin came to see me
Sunday. She looked fine. First of
our class I'd seen since last May.
Mattie Jo is also teaching at Locust Grove and is president of the
newly organized Henry County
Alumnae Club. Her pal and roommate, Virginia Smith, writes:
"Should any of you chance to
come, in your wanderings to
Burke county, you will find me
teaching English in one of the
state's best equipped high schools
at Vidette, Ga.
Daily I am reminded of my L. C. days and of the
great heritage of the college."
Virginia Pugh teaches music and
exprsesion in a consolidated school
near Tifton, where she often has
the thrill of soaring aloft in 'the
prettiest plane, "with red body and
yellow wings." Another less happy experience was from a briar in
her foot, which worked its way to
the bone and out. This brought
on the experience of an operation
and for the present, crutches. We
hope that when the Scroll is issued, she will be able "to have two
good feet again."
Others teaching are: Eloise
White, the second grade at'
Friend Academy, Locust Valley,
Long Island, N. Y.; Silvey Bond,
the third grade at Leslie, Ga.; Ruby Hughes, English teacher in the
High School of Union City, Ga.;
Ruth Landrum, history teacher in
Reidsville, Ga.; Mary Lou Linn,
teaches at White, Ga.; Ruby Sorgee
teaches at Shellman, Ga.; Pearl
Dunson has sixth grade in Douglasville, Ga.; Mary Lehman is
teaching the sixth, seventh and
eighth grades at Tatum, Ga.; Mildred Moody is teaching math in
the high schools of Langdale, Ala.,
at the same time working on her
M.A. degree at Auburn; Rachel
Griffith in high school at Warwick, Ga.: Minnie Griggs continued
her study by attending the Opportunity Business School in LaGrange, teaching English and
Math in the school. She has recently added short hand to her
list and expects to take charge of a
business school in the future. Others in the business world are: Ruth
Hurst with LaGrange Banking &
Trust Co.; Rosalie Kamper with
"Hamper's" in Atlanta; Julia Marlin, somewhere in Atlanta.
Annie Lucille uMrphy is principal of a school in Dothan, Ala.
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The LaGrange College Scroll was organized in January, 1922.
This paper is designed to be a medium through which the best
thought of the student body may find expression, and to serve as
a bond of union between the College and former students and
alumnae.
ALUMNAE AND MATRICULATES' ASSOCIATION
The object of the Association is to preserve and quicken the
interest of the alumnae and forme students, to keep alive girlhood friendships, and to create a helpful relationship toward the
College. The highest purpose of this organization is to keep intelligently informed of the needs and welfare of the institution
and seek to express this interest by voluntary services for the
College.
jAt the reunion in 1921, all matriculates were made elegible
to membership in this Association. The dues are one dollar per
year. All alumnae and former students are invited to become
actively identified with it.
The general Association has given over five thousand volumes
to the College library, over §2,000.00 in money for purchasing new
books, given six scholarships to students, and has done much toward beautifying the college campus.
It is earnestly desired that in every place where as many as
five alumnae or former students may reside a local chapter of the
association shall be formed and so report to the President of the
Alumnae and Matriculates' Association headquarters.
The annual reunion is held during commencement each year
and all are warmly invited to return to the college for that meeting. Reunion this year, Saturday, May 24th.
THE NEEDS OF LAGRANGE COLLEGE
WE Have for the past several months had
the
printing of the LaGrange College Scroll, and it has been a
pleasure to be associated with
the editorial and news staff of
this ably conducted college publication.
For more than three-quarters of a century a steady stream of
cultured young women has been going out from the halls of LaGrange College to bless the world in all phases of life No accurate calculation could be made of the good the institution has
done through these hundreds of women. Its graduates and former students are in almost every state in the union and in many
foreign countries. They have become teachers, nurses, doctors,
home builders, missionaries—in fact, there are no walks of life
which they have not enriched and elevated by lives and services.
, .... The.re are many upon whom the Lord has laid the responsibility of wealth, some of whom are anxious to find religious investments.
Can a more profitable investment be made than in
some phase of the life and work of a Christian college, in this
way multiplying itself a hundred fold in the lives and iWacter
of Lnnstian womanhood?
No denominational college is conducted for gain. Indeed to
every student who attends a church institution, the church makes
a contribution of a part of her expenses. The church college is
dependent upon its friends and the friends of Christian education
not only for its upbuilding, but also for its very existence.
The greatest need of LaGrange College is a large increase in
its endowment. A gift for this purpose could take the form of
a memorial by the endowment of a chair or professorship, or the
endowment of the library or a section of the library. A buildin^
on the campus would be a splendid memorial to a parent, a daughter, or other relative.
There are other needs which could be met by gifts in any
chSSly taSto?
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The Alumnae Association has
our hearty good wishes for the
success of its efforts for a
Greater LaGrange College.
It
is a glorious purpose, and should
have the support of every one
who is interested in the advancement and development of
our higher educational institutions.
WEST POINT
PUBLISHING
COMPANY
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West Point, Ga.
Make a donation to LaGrange College now.
Leave the College a sum in your will.
With reference to any matter relating to the needs of LaGrange College, write W. E. Thompson, President, LaGrange Ga
The annual reunion is held during commencement each year!
Come lift your voices and sing to
L. C.
LaGrange, here's to you!
I'll .praise her traditions and glory
anew,
LaGrange, here's to you!
Here's to old L. C-, and here's to her
fame,
Here's to the women who honor her
name,
Here's to the Red and Black always
the same,
LaGrange, here's to you!
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES
W. S. Witham
Atlanta, Ga.
W. L. Cleaveland
LaGrange, Ga.
J. E. Dunson, Jr
LaGrange, Ga.
C. V. Truitt
LaGrange, Ga.
H. Y. McCerd
Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. S. A. Harris
Dalton, Ga.
H. J. Fullbright
Waynesboro, Ga.
Rev. S. P. Wiggins, D. D
Atlanta, Ga.
Ely R. Callaway
LaGrange, Ga.
W. S. Dunson
LaGrange, Ga.
Miss Mary Nix
LaGrange, Ga.
W. H. Turner, Jr
LaGrange, Ga.
W. E. Thompson
LaGrange, Ga.
James W. Morton
R. F. D., Athens, Ga.
Rev. E. F. Dempsey, D. D
Oxford, Ga.
Rev. R. C. Cleckler,
Rome, Ga.
Robert Hutchinson
LaGrange, Ga.
Judge John S. Candler
Atlanta, Ga.
Samuel C. Dobbs, LL. D
Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs. James B. Ridley
Atlanta, Ga.
J. J. Milam
LaGrange, Ga.
S. C. Candler
Covington, Ga.
I. S. Hopkins
Atlanta. Ga.
Cascn J. Callaway
LaGrange, Ga.
Thomas K. Glenn
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Atlanta, Ga.
S. C. Dobbs, Jr
Atlanta, Ga.
Officers of Board
Samuel C. Dobbs, LL. D
President
Rev. R. C. Cleckler
Vice President
J. E. Dunson, Jr
Secretary-Treasurer
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