The

A&M SCHOOL

at CARROLLTON

1908-1933

a collection of pictures and readings

Edited by
Anne Gayle Ingram

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

Title Page 1

Foreword 2

Special Statements ' 3

Mt'prom Article From'The'centenniai Edition of'The ^

Carroll County Times . i 'r. \ '* 7

Educational History in the Twentieth Century ^^

World War I -13

Irvine S. Ingram and Martha Munro ^^

Great Depression ' 15

West Georgia College Begins ^g

Reminiscen?irof^the Fourth'oistrict Agricultural and ^ ^^

Mechanical School 20

Retrospection 33

The Mcintosh Memorial ' 34

Surorised 35

LS:iu;^::t;?: irrLife-and-Ti.es-of rc^er-siudents ' ' ^^

of A & M School 42

Aeroplane Crash at the Fair ^2

Cadillac Bolts for Home ^2

The Maid Answers the Phone .^

Little Wise Cracks, Little Foibles ^^

Cure for Love /14

Chelsea Barker and Magellan ^^

One Sunday Suit - 45

Flirting With Trouble '^ ^g

Sewing Class 1 "nlu 4fi

Model T Ford Loses Wheel on Jaunt to Athens - ^^

A 8. M - A Family School 48

An Unscheduled April Fool's Day Holiday ^^

Thumb Tack Revenge 49

Boiler Room Chicken 4g

Working In The Corn Field ^q

Determined to be a Teacher ^^

"Ihe Alumni House ,':%'*' 'i->,l^'in

Human Interest Recollections When the Ingrams Lived in ..53

the House 55

The Bonner House " ' 53

'^'"'""ihe First Annual 'Announcement of 'the'A'&'M'schooi 5^

The Premier 32

Setamo'rphosis of ' the-A'^'M* into Wes j'oeo^gia CollegejgSS '. 94

Corner Stone Inscription of The Academic Building ^^

State of Georgia Historical Marker Located in Front of ^^

of the Bonner House " gy

Graduates of A & M School

Pictures ,.,,,. i ^ ^ ^ ' i ''' '

THE A & M SCHOOL AT CARROLLTON
1908-1933

predecessor of

WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE

collection of pictures and readings

edited by

ANNE GAYLE INGRAM

Project sponsored By The A & M Class of 1926

and
The Office Of Alumni Affairs

Printed in 1978
by the Department of Publications and Printing
West Georgia College
Carrollton, Georgia 30118

FOREWORD

This collection of information and pictures about the Fourth District
Agricultural and Mechanical School, the predecessor of West Georgia College,
has been assembled through the research and editing ingenuity of Dr. Anne
Gayle Ingram, daughter of Dr. Irvine Sullivan Ingram, president emeritus of
West Georgia College, who for 13 years early in his career was principal of
the A & M School .

The volume brings together historical data on the founding of the A & M
School in 1908 and the subsequent establishment of West Georgia College, in
1933, as well as humorous, whimsical, and informal recollections of the A & M
days by persons who experienced them first-hand.

Since the conversion of the A & M School into West Georgia College, the
A & M alumni have orovided solid, unwavering, and continual support of the
college. They have also shown great loyalty to their own alumni organiza-
tion. The publication of this book through funds contributed by several
A & M alumni and services provided by the college's Department of Publica-
tions is an example of the cooperative spirit that has existed through the
years.

This collection of readings portrays a valuable part of the heritage
of West Georgia College and provides insight as to the high values and
stability of the people who were a vital part of the institution in its
formative years.

Tracy Stal lings

Director of College Relations

West Georgia College

June, 1978

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SPECIAL STATEMENTS

More than one hundred years ago, all the property which is now West
Georgia College belonged to my Great Grandfather, the late George W. Camp.
My maternal grandmother, the late Mary Elizabeth Camp, and Henry H. Strick-
land were married in her parents' home, now known as the Bonner House, on
December 21, 1871. As a child my grandmother would tell us wonderful
stories about her youth on this farm.

In 1922, I started to high school at the 4th District A & M School
located on Lot #99 and spent four glorious years, graduating in 1926. In
1939 I attended West Georgia College for special study, at this same place,

It is difficult to find words to express my appreciation to Dr. Anne
Ingram and each one who has contributed to making this history of the
4th District A & M, 1907 to 1933, a reality.

To each and everyone, I give my deepest heartfelt "THANKS". What is
now West Georgia College is a hallowed place to me.

(Mrs. C. M.) Thelma H. Turner
June, 1978

The history of any organization or institution is significant for those
who helped to "write" the events by their participation in them; it is
important for those who follow because of the impact of those earlier events
on the present.

In the case of the 4th District ASM this becomes especially true.
Five minutes of conversation with an A & M alumnus will convince anyone that
the "A & M Days" were exciting and very meaningful for those involved.

It is equally apoarent to those involved with West Georgia College that
the 4th District A & M established an excellent foundation on which the
college was to be built.

I shall always treasure the opportunity of working with the A & M Alumni
Association and the warm friendships which have grown from that association.

Gene Hutsell, Ph.D.
Director, Development and
Alumni Services
June, 1978

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INTRODUCTION

This collection of readings is about the Fourth Distrct Ag^ cultural
and Mechanical School, located out from Carroll ton, Georgia In 1908 when
the school was founded it was located outside the city limits and had its

n^crnff^rp r;^llPd GENOLA The A & M School was a boarding high school
wh c trel % r uUu a? and Industrial arts along with the general hinh
school curriculum. The school was founded to train young mn and women to
take their olace in a rural agricultural community and to provide work
oDDortun ties for the students so that they could earn most or part of the
Ev reqJ "d tS finance their education. In addition to attending classes,
the students were scheduled to work a certain number of hours a week for
which they were paid.

The life span of the A & M High School was from 1908 to 1933. Judqe
rpnrnP Pierce Munro of Buena Vista and Columbus, Georgia was Chairman of
^h^BLrd o^TrustLraDp^ by Governor Terrell to select the land where
the Fourth Diltrct A &Tschool would be located. The land se ected was
the haro P?ace, which was the old Bonner plantation ^ ;'^ ,^^\^,^ f ^^^ ^,
to the Sharp family. The Bonner House was originally located about where
Sanford Hall is located (1977).

The A & M School opened its doors to students in 1908 and J H Mel son
was the first Principal Mr. and Mrs. Melson endeared themselves to the
St dents nd are remembered with great love and affection. The studen en-
rollment was small and there was a close bond between faculty and students
Th ASM school acted en loco parentis although the students were generally
older than town high sch^oTTtudents. The catalogs from 1908 to 1920 firm-
Iv state that "no smokers will be tolerated" and if "any student is found
^b're this ruleTe will be expelled." There was no nonsense a ou w at
one did or did not do and for a violation, punishment was swift and sure^
The erring student was assigned a special work detail immediately. In the
permtsIiWe atmosphere of thi 1970;s, a high school student reading at
the regulations and schedules would be incredulous. Although the school
environment was conducted in a very strict manner, ^^^^^^^J^^^p students
dotes qive insight into the mischievous and joyous nature of the students.
Their sjirils were far from being crushed. In fact, their school days seem-
ed to mean more to them.

In 1920 Mr Melson retired as Principal of the A & M School and Irvine
S. in ram wa^ seiected by the trustees of the school to be the next Princ-
nal He was 27 years old, a batchelor and had not completed his A. B. aeqree
but'he had bee teaching ^ince he was 16 years old. His father died when
IrJi e Ingram was 19 years old and left him as the f ^^^^PP^f ^, ^\,
mother and five vounaer brothers and sisters. The trustees asked him at
hi b nterview "What do you know about farming?" ^^;;-%:;9ram report-
edly said, "I don't know anything now but I can learn f ^^^,^"0^^^^^^%,,
organize." When Irvine Ingram's father died, he left a debt ^Jich his son
elected to assume and gradually pay off. As fate would have it, one o. the
trustees was the man who had been paid back by the son.

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Martha Lewis Munro joined the high school staff as a teacher of English
and Literature a year before Mr. Mel son resigned and I. S. Ingram was select-
ed by the trustees to replace him as Principal of the School. On June 11,
1921, Irvine Ingram and Martha Munro were married and the welfare of the
school and its students became their primary goal in life. The school was
still small by modern standards and the bonds between faculty and students
were similar to those that exist in an extended family.

The gradual change towards industrialization and urbanization of Carroll
County and the state brought about a change in the needs of the people in
the area that the A & M had been designed to serve. In the thirties, the
county was one of the leading cotton growing counties in the state. The
State Legislature, by the late 1920's, felt that these schools had served
their day because city high schools were also offering some of the same
agricultural and mechanical courses. The period of life of these schools
spanned the transition from horse and buggy days, when farming was done with
the aid of horse and mule drawn plows or wagons, to the advent of modern
mechanized farming equipment with tractors and trucks. But it was the boll-
weevil that wrecked the cotton oriented economy of the county. When trans-
portation depended on horse drawn carriages and a road system of mostly un-
paved dirt roads, boarding schools to teach agricultural techniques and
improve stock breeding, etc., provided a needed service to future farmers.
As time brought many new innovations, needs of the people changed and the
function of the school needed to change. So the response of the state legis-
lature was to meet the new need and replace the high school with a junior
college -- a new curriculum, new goals, and new functions.

It was a time of insecurity for teachers and students when the legis-
lature, after extensive study, determined that the A ?. M Schools scattered
over the state had served their day and would be abolished. This occurred
in 1933. Carroll ton community leaders along with faculty worked to have a
junior college founded at the plant site and in the buildings of the old
ASM School. This was how the metamorphosis of West Georgia College occur-
red. A brand new junior college, a Division of the University System of
Georgia was born. Irvine S. Ingram was selected by the Board of Regents to
be the first president of West Georgia College. His association with the
"school" covered the time from 1920 to 1961, a period of forty-one years.

Present day faculty and students (1977) may pause momentarily to wonder
about the ASM School that was the parent of West Georgia College, The
purpose of this collection of readings is to answer some of these questions
and reaffirm the bond between the past and the present.

Anne Gayle Ingram
West Georgia College
Class of 1943

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1

EXCERPT FROM
ARTICLE FROM THE CENTENNIAL EDITION OF
THE CARROLL COUNTY TIMES

A momentous event was the laying of the
corner stone of the Agricultural and Mechanical
School of the Fourth District, at Carroll ton.
By estimation there were twelve thousand people
there, gathered from all over the Fouth District
and other counties near Carroll and a barbecue
had been provided adequate for the occasion. The
occasion passed off happily and delightfully in
every respect. The people all enjoyed themselves
and their conduct and bouyancy heralded a bright
and successful future for the school . Never have
I seen or heard of a more successful or delight-
ful occasion.

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TAKEN FROM

THE EDUCATIONAL HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY

by

James C. Bonner
Department of History
Georgia College at Milledgeville

Produced in 1968 by the Georgia College Duplicating Department

Milledgeville, Georgia,

Educational History in the Twentieth Century

(The Beginning of the Fourth District Agricultural and Mechanical School
at Carroll ton, Georgia)

INTRODUCTION : New educational developments which occurred in the first
third of the twentieth century included agricultural and homemaking education,
longer school terms, and school consolidation in the interest of quality and
efficiency. These innovations were logical results of the Populist movement
which emphasized the need of a more realistic educational program for rural
youth '

The ASM School . The Fourth Congressional District at this time was
comprised of ten counties in western Georgia including Carroll on the extreme
north and Marion County on the south. In competition with such cities as
Newnan, LaGrange and Columbus, Carroll ton was designated as the location of
the district school. Several local sites were considered, including the Grow-
Kinsbury livestock farm on the Little Tallapoosa River, and the site near
the railroad where the Maole Street Grammar School later was constructed in
1912. The board of trustees, of which George P, Munro of Buena Vista was
chairman, selected the old Bonner plantation on the Bowdon road, then in
possession of Bluford A. Sharp, who transferred for $9,625 two hundred and
seventy-five acres of land to the trustees. The old plantation house which
was included in the purchase became the first woman's dormitory.

Two brick buildings were constructed during 1907 at a total cost of
slightly less than $25,000. These were an academic building and a dormitory
for men which was later known as Melson Hall. Clifton Mandeville and Joseph
A. Aycock, local businessmen, were the contractors. The first term of the
school opened in January 1908 with a faculty of five people, including Princi-
pal John Holland Melson and his wife. Mrs. L, J. Rozar, formerly of the
Temple Model School, later was engaged to teach English. She became one of
the most popular and beloved teachers ever to be associated with the school.
Fifty-two boarding pupils and fifty-eight day pupils enrolled for the open-
ing session. Seven counties were represented in the student body, of whom
more than 70 percent were from Carroll County.

Among the students were Lee B. Wyatt, a future presiding^ justice of
the Georgia Supreme Court, Charles Fitts, a future Carrollton physician,
Eugene Spratlin who was to become a lawyer, and Reese Adamson who became
assistant manager of the Birmingham branch of the Ford Motor Company. Be-
sides attracting youth back to the farm where they would enhance the agricul-
tural life of the region, the school from the beginning also provided an
incentive for them to enter urban trades and professions, which many did
with surprising success.

When the first contingent of studentsarrived, doors to the dormitory
rooms had not yet been installed. There was no running water, since the
single hydrant on the front campus was frozen. Buildings were without central
heat and electric lights. There was neither a library nor classroom equip-
ment, A "book shower" arranged by Mrs, John Holland Melson on January 27,
provided the nucleous of a library when 325 volumes of non-descript books and

bound volumes of magazines were contributed by local peoole These books
were shelved in one^of the linen closets in the boys' dormitory, and
thirty books were checked out on the first day. In February Principal J.
H Melson announced that the school needed "four mi k cows, five shotes
Csicl six sheep and 100 chickens. . .and will appreciate very much donations
bv our farmer friends." Desks for classrooms did not arrive until the middle
of February. In the meantime, tables, arm chairs and lamps were placed in
the main hall of the dormitory where a two-hour study period was observed
in the evenings. By April seats were installed in the auditorium when the
First Baptist Church donated the old pews from the frame building being
replaced on Newnan Street. The school held frequent box suppers to raise
funds for equipment. Such an occasion in March netted thirty-six do ars^
Green Burson auctioned the boxes off at prices ranging from fifty cents to
$1.25 each. Towns-people were the principal bidders.

ive conditions during the winter of
, demoralizing students as well as
students were down with measles
a. A number of Carroll ton's young
le, came to the school to help care
e from Atlanta whom they had employ-
on County, died in the dormitory
to recuperate were Lee Wyatt,
1, John Turner, and Lucile Meri-

The school's operation under primit
1908 resulted in an outbreak of sickness
the administration. In March twenty-one
and there were several cases of pneumoni
matrons, including Mrs. Clifton Mandevil
for the sick, assisted by a special nurs
ed. One student, Murray Garrett of Mari
on March 20. Among those who went home
Daisy Echols, Vesta Chambers, Wesley Vea
wether.

It is a tribute to its leaders that the institution survived and exper-
ienced a steady growth under such adverse circumstances. Much of its
success was a reiult of the loyal support, financial and moral , of the
people of the county and of Carrollton in particular. The 1906 law estab-
lishing the eleven agricultural schools provided no direct appropriation
of funds for their support but specified that the institutions should re-
ceive the inspection fees on oil, food and fertilizers collected by the
Department of Agriculture. The Carrollton school's financial Report for
the first term's operation on June 16, 1908, showed that it had received
$6,500 from this source, while the people of the county had donated the
land and buildings. These donations were made by the city and county
governments, and by individuals. The city furnished ^f^ric light and
water after the first year. The county appropriated $15,000 for buildings,
borrowing this amount from the two local banks to be repaid f^om county
funds An attempt by Wesley Domineck and others of the Temple community,
seeking to restrain county officials from the payment of this loan, was
unsuccessful. The presentments of the Carroll grandjury of April, 908 de-
plored the conditions "which invited an interruption of the tranquility o
the sentiment of our people" on the school, which it regarded as^_ one of
the most valuable assets to our moral, civic, and material good It urged
the people to "join hands in moral and financial support of this institution
so heavily fraught with the possibility of good to our own and to genera-
tions yet unknown,"

The depression of 1907 had made 1t impossible for some subscribers to

make their oayments on time. A few defaulted because they had expected the
school to be located at Clem, Temple, Mt, Zion, or Oaklawn, or at some point
near their homes. After 1908, however, with the return of prosperity, near-
ly all of the subscriptions were paid. The local paper cooperated by pub-
lishing a continuing list of paid-up subscribers. This list was a cross-
section of the county's citizens and included such men as J. J. Lovvorn, who
paid $55.00; L. Newell, $10.00: H. C. Conner, $5.00; W. H. Thomas, $3.00;
W. T. Hackney, $2.50; and A. J. Garst, $1.00,

Physical conditions at the school had improved by the opening of the
fall term on September 2, but the enrollment of local day students had de-
clined. There were seventeen girls and seventy-five boys, of whom seven
of the former and fifty-five of the latter were boarders. Girls were now
required to wear uniforms of blue shirtwaist suits with red ties and belts.
The colors, blue and red, became the official colors of the school on Feb-
ruary 20, 1908. Two new faculty members were added. A third brick building,
a dining hall with the ground floor to serve as a shop and a central heating
olant, was under construction. It was completed in December at a cost of
$5,000,

A school advertisement in somewhat of an over-statement proclaimed
that "Everything free except what you eat." Work was required of all oupils
to fulfill technical requirements of tuition; and books might be purchased
from compensation paid for overtime. Teachers often complained of pupils
who neglected academic duties in order to perform work for which they would
be paid. Extra work was assigned for any breach of discipline. Such work
for boys usually consisted of digging stumps from newly cleared land near
the campus.

Board during the first year had cost each puoil S6.41 per month. ^ De-
SDite this low cost the school's average menu suggests a substantial diet.
For breakfast there were grapenuts with sugar and cream, pork sausage, corn
muffins, biscuit, and coffee in a typical farmer's breakfast. At noon
there was soup with "crackling bread, " boiled cabbage, mashed potatoes,
steak, biscuit, and pudding. The evening meal consisted of potatoes, biscuit,
cheese, syrup and coffee. Sometimes these items were supplemented with fruits
and other edibles from home. "R. B, Goodloe's homefolks gave him a pleasant
surprise one day this week by sending him a lot of sugar cane which he and
his friends enjoyed very much," wrote one student.

Since most of the students were separated from their families for the
first time, homesickness often was a major problem. Improved morale was
attempted through organized recreation. At a Valentine party in February
1908 music was placed on a "graphaphone." While students were not permitted
to dance, rhythmic games such as Skip-to-my-Lou were played. Fudge and cake
were served at intermission. One student confided that he was "a poor skipper
but a good intermissioner." In May the entire student body took a day off
to enjoy a picnic at Simonton's Mill. "Two wagons, a bus, a surrey and old
buggies conveyed the crowd to the river and delightful day was spent in play-
ing games, wading, boating, swimming and eating," according to one partici-
pant. On October 16 following, the students enjoyed another holiday trip to

Atlanta to attend the state fair. Two rival literary societies were formed
called "Workers of A & M" and "The Argosy" (later changed to "Hawthorn" and
"Ciceronian"). Subjects used in a declamation contest ranged from "The
Situation in Cuba" to "Casey at the Bat," Hazing apparently was given free
reign, although the term itself was unknown to the students at that time.
New students were called "fresh meat" and the use of a leather strap to
instill respect for veteran students and for their regulations was called
"salting down."

The first graduating exercise was held in May 1909. The occasion last-
ad three full days and included the old concept of an "exhibition." There
were such programs as an oratorical contest, display of agricultural and
shop exhibits with talks by students on fertilizers, field crops, and home
health. At the graduation on Tuesday evening, Eugene F. Spradlin gave the
valedictory. Others in the class were Boyd Bishop, Annabel Yeates, John
R. Darden, John W. Veal, Olney H. Meadows, and Hogan Copeland. George
P, Munro, chairman of the Board of Trustees, delivered the diplomas. Sign-
ificicantly, in his preliminary remarks, he referred to the institution as
"the coming school of West Georgia."

Athletic competition began as early as February 9, 1908. Basketball
was little known as a winter sport, therefore this first contest was a
game of baseball against a team representing the Carrollton High School.
The A & M team won by a score of sixteen to four, and repeated the victory
on the following day. The boys acquired blue baseball uniforms trimmed in
red, colors which had just been adooted by the school. They wore blue
caps decorated with the red letters, "A & M." In April the -baseball team
made its first out-of-town trip when it went to Whitesburq and before a
large crowd defeated the town team by a score of twelve to two. The mem-
bers of this team were "Dot" Jones, Douglas Merrill, Tom Power, and 6. G.
Daniel, infield; John Webb, Stacy Dimmock, and Carl Holmes, outfield;
with Garland Merrill and LaFayette Stovall as catcher and pitcher, respect-
ively. A student from Turin, in Coweta County, Stovall was easily the star
of this team. He loved the game intensely and those who observed his skill
claim that he could have performed with distinction on many professional
teams. In 1911, when an athletic association was formed, another champion-
ship team was produced. It was comprised of Hall Carmichael, Joe Davis,
Bill Jarrell, Lander Lane, Jess Craven, Norman Causey, Yuke Hay, Carl Al-
mon, and Glenn Carter. Carmichael won fame as an ambidexterous pitcher.

Football had its beginning in Carroll County in 1910 when an A & M
team was organized with Lander Lane of LaGrange as captain and student
coach, Eugene Spearman was captain of the 1912 team which had Amos M.
Stephens as manager. On Friday, November 22, this team won a game against
LaGrange by a 6 to score. Fred Hall urn, perhaps the best all-around
athlete the school ever produced, made the only touchdown of the game on
a long end run. This game, which the writer witnessed, was played on a
sloping hillside, about the center of which Munro Hall at West Georgia
College later was erected. The return game was played at LaGrange on
Thanksgiving Day, After half a century none of the surviving members of

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this team remembered either the score or the outcome of this game. They
recalled only that it was played on a snow-covered field.

Conspicuously absent v/as that elan which characterizes modern football,
The A & M players stalked on the field with ungainly stride, and took their
positions in much the same manner as they would settle down to the chore of
milking a cow. All features of the game were in charge of a single official
who often was highly partisan and sometimes short on vision. Spectators
stood on the sidelines and often overflowed onto the playing field. It
was not uncommon for them to attack a player after the latter had made a
vicious tackle of a favorite star. Once, at LaGrange, the A & M team was
showered with brickbats from the sidelines. Rules against the use of in-
eligible players (called "ringers" and "tramp athletes") were not enforced
until about 1920, and few teams were guiltless of this type of hypocricy.

Some degree of maturity was introduced at the A & M in 1913 when Pro-
fessor 0, K, David, a former Auburn player, became the school's first
experienced coach. He scheduled games with LaGrange, Newnan, Georgia
Military Academy, Monroe A & M, Brantley Institute, Hearn Academy, and the
Columbus Industrial School. Between thirty and forty boys competed for
places on his team. An area back of the dining hall which was part of
a race track was now graded to make a gridiron, although it was less than
the official width. In that period a team could be completely equipped
at a cost of $125. Of this amount the students contributed all except
fifty dollars.

The complete record of the 1913 team has not been found, but Coach
David must have enjoyed a successful season. Called "the ASM Tigers,"
(later named "the Aggies"), his team defeated Brantley Institute (Senoia)
by a score of 73-0, and on the following day it tied the Georgia Military
Academy, whose teams for several years had ranked at the top of Georgia
preparatory schools. The latter game was played at Carroll ton, The host
team was tied in the final minutes by a touchdown made with a forward pass,
a type of offensive play with which they were as yet unfamiliar.

The 1916 team was reported in a general news column as having "lost
disastrously" to Gordon in the opening game "due to unfortunate circum-
stances," Howell Robinson made the only touchdown against Gordon, Homer
Clyde Chesnutt, a future college coach, was captain of this team, and it
was coached by Hall Carmichael. No other items appear in the local papers
concerning the 1915 season except the report of a victory over the agricul-
tural school at Powder Springs. However, this team is known to have com-
pleted a highly successful season.

It was not until after 1920 that details of football games came to be
reported regularly in local papers, but even the accounts often were frag-
mentary. The event which heightened the community's interest in football
was the inauguration of the sport at Carroll ton High School. In 1920 the
high school organized an athletic association and elected George Kerry
Smith president. Carl Stevens was chosen captain of the yet unformed foot-

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ball team. His
athletic associ
Southside Ball
ence to sports
local papers no
recalls that it
much time justi
school players.
a 27-0 score.
Free Press but
original style
single player o
It was not unti
Times that loca

future wife, Charlcie Mae Holmes, was made secretary of the
ation, The first game was played against the A & M team at
Park on October 1. Perhaps it was more a result of indiffer-
than loyalty to the losing high school team which caused
t to report the outcome of this first game. This writer

was refereed by Edwin Simms, the A & M coach, who spent
fying his decisions and explaining the rules to the high

Carroll ton won its second game, played at West Point, by
The report of this game commanded a lengthy column in the
there was no reference to stars or touchdowns. In a most
of sportscasting, the reporter failed to mention by name a
n either team nor did he describe a single play or movement.
1 the early 1930's when Hal David joined the Carroll County
1 sportswriting achieved some degree of modernity.

Considerable
After the initial
A & M was played o
36-6. Members of
Vachel D. Whatley,
Snead, Abe Robinso
Dodd and Hulett Hu
cartoonist, receiv
manship by members
and Dumah Morgan,
was the first A &
famous for produci

football rivalry developed between the two local teams,
contest, a return game between the high school and the
n November 5, which the latter team won by a score of
the first hiah school team included Carl Stevens,
Jr., Roland^'Criffin, J. B. Hanson, Cal Parker, Wooten
n, John Hume, Andrew "Bub" Fitts, Jefferson Brock, Ed
ckeba. Ed Dodd, who later became a nationally- known
ed a compliment for his diligent play and good sports-
of the winninn team, notably Andy Chambers, Owen Barr
The ASM team that year defeated Newnan 19-0. This
M victory in five years over the team which had become
ng college stars.

It was about
of the county. Al
inq spectators on
this sport in 1920
the A & M five and
the A & M won 39-0
"The feature of th
playing of King at
time with renewed

this time that basketball made its debut in the schools
1 games were played on an outdoor court with a few shiver-
the sidelines'. Something of the nature and quality of
can be judged by the outcome of a two-game series between
a quintette reoresenting Hulett, On their home court

but on the Hulett court they lost by an 8-7 score,
e game," according to a Hulett reporter, "was the fast
forward who was twice knocked out, but came back each
determination."

the

While there were track and field events earlier than 1915, this is
date at which these events were first reported. At the Fourth District
School Meet held in Carrollton in April, the A & M won most of the athle-
tic points with a team which included Tom Rutland, David King, Bill Hyde,
Zeb Nutt and Fred Hallum, On May 8 the A S M team participated in a
Georgia prep school meet in Atlanta sponsored by the Georgia School of

schools competed. Although it had no entries
A & M team won first place, defeating the
one point. In this meet Fred Hallum distin-
all -around athlete on the field, winning first
to the mile relay. Many who
day believed him to be the most

Technology, in which twelve

in a few of the events, the

Georgia Military Academy by

quished himself as the best

place in four separate events, in addition

viewed his magnificant performance on that

complete athlete they had ever seen. Had he lived in the modern era of

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professionalized sports, he might have won more enduring fame.

The experimental phase of the agricultural school came to an end in
1910, by which time the institution was guaranteed a minimum income from
the state of $10,000 a year. In the following year a principal's cottage
was constructed, a band was organized, and plans were laid for the con-
struction of a girls' dormitory. The young men adopted a standard dress of
military uniforms with felt hats and canvas leggins. This gave them a
distinctiveness enjoyed by cadets at private military schools, but the
policy proved impracticable and was soon abandoned.

The 1913 registration of 116 boys and 20 girls placed the Carrollton
school fourth in>ank among the eleven district schools. A record enroll-
ment came in 1915 when 142 boys and 24 girls were enrolled, and in the
following year reaistration continued to increase. In 1915 the legislature
made an appropriation for a girls' dormitory of a sum to be matched by local
subscriptions. Within a few months, $4,200 had been subscribed leaving_
$5,000 more to be raised. Among the donors were Nicholas and Ben Tompkins
of Heard County who contributed $100 each. Congressman Adamson gave $1500
and Coweta County appropriated $1000. The dormitory, built at a cost of
$13,400, stood on the soot formerly occupied by the old entrance to the
fair grounds. It was accepted by the trustees on March 15, 1917. The old
horseblock of Chief William Mcintosh was given as a cornerstone by the
^.eorgia Power Company which now owned the Mcintosh Reserve. Up to this
time the school had enrolled a total of only three hundred girls, of whom
twenty- three had graduated. This was in contrast to twelve hundred boys
who had enrolled and seventy who had graduated.

' World War I

About the time that the new dormitory was opened America's entry into
World War I brouaht a slight decline in registration. Young men both from
the student body'and the faculty entered military service. By the end of
the war the school's service flag contained 160 stars. Military training
was made oart of the curriculum in 1917 and 1918. Uniforms and wooden guns
were supplied by the students. By 1918 Springfield rifles used in the
Spanish-American War were provided by the War Department. "Sugar Loaf
Mountain," a hill near Hay's Mill, provided a firing range.

* * *

Irvine S. Ingram and Martha Munro

The 1919 term opened on August 26 with 152 students, but the enroll-
ment grew to 170 within ten days. Among the new teachers that year was a_
teacher of Enalish and history, Martha Munro, a daughter of the firsi chair-
man of the school's board of trustees. The former remained on the campus
until her death in 1955, bringing to the community an unusual intellect, _
combined with charm and graciousness. Her future husband. Professor Irvine
S. Ingram, was elected to the principalship in 1920, succeeding Professor
Mel son who had resianed.

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Professor Ingram's administration was begun in a period of post-war
readjustment, marked by the emergence of basic changes in the state's edu-
cational pattern. Although the consolidation of rural schools began as
early as 1902, the program did not have legislative sanction until the
passage of the Barrett-Rogers Act in 1919, which provided funds for this
purpose. Consolidation was further encouraged by the availability of army
surplus trucks for the transportation of children and by the improvement of
rural roads which began in the early twenties. Significant for the future
of the district agricultural schools was the passage of the Smith-Hughes
Act in 1917 which provided federal funds for vocational programs, includ-
ing agriculture and home economics in local high schools. Also the increase
in the number of accredited high schools had been phenomenal since the in-
the A & M schools in Georgia increased from 420 in 1905 to
in 1915. The figure reached 59,817 in 1930. These changes
the traditional position of the district agricultural schools
; pattern of rural education.

auguration of
nearly 13,000
greatly ended
in the state's

Great Depression

The Carroll ton ASM school was notable fo
changes. It helped to inaugurate "the cow, hog
early 1920's to combat the effects of the bolT
The school operated one of the most successful
section, and its pure-bred livestock encouraged
throughout the area which it served. The insti
cation and continued a program of summer "norma
the late 1920's it inaugurated a new vocational
training for both boys and girls. Finally, in
the Great Depression, it cooperated with the Ca
tion to enroll high school students from the Li
Elizabeth Harris, and Pine Grove communities,
portation costs.

r its adjustment to these
, and hen program" of the
weevil on cotton growers,
poultry hatcheries in the
the upgrading of herds
tution sponsored adult edu-
1 schools" for teachers. In
program of secretarial
1930, at the beginning of
rroll County Board of Educa-
ttle Bethel , Sand Hill,
The county paid only trans-

All of these innovations were accomplished on a small budget. In
1923 income from the state increased from fifteen to twenty thousand dollars,
but beginning in 1927 the appropriation was fixed at $15,000. The school's
maximum support from public funds never exceeded $30,000 annually, and this
amount came in 1930 and in 1931. The final appropriation, for 1933, was
cut to half this amount. At this time the school's library did not exceed
fifteen hundred volumes.

With these changes in vocationa
not neglected. It had always had a
ing the State College of Agriculture
was removed as an entrance requireme
attend liberal arts colleges. Eight
of 1914 went to college. More than
1921 enrolled in college. Three of
Of the eleven Carroll County boys en
1926, six were A & M alumni. The Ca

1 direction, the
high percentage

but after 1920,
nt by many colle

of the thirteen
half of the male
these later were
rolled at the Un
rroll ton school

academic program was
of its graduates attend-
when foreign language
ges, a few began to
members of the class
members of the class of
awarded doctor's degrees
iversity of Georgia in
won the state literary

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banner at a contest in Athens in 1926. In the previous year it had won
second place in the overall athletic and literary contest in which the eleven
district agricultural schools participated. It graduated that year forty-five
seniors. On May 8, 1929 the school was honored by the presence of Governor
Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, who delivered the commencement address.

In 1927 the school opened with 180 students, the largest in the in-
stitution's history. During the depression years which followed, its reg-
istration figures continued at a high level. Between 1924 and 1929, seven
of the A S M schools (those at Cochran, Douglas, Statesboro, Americus, Tifton,
Monroe and Barnesville), abandoned the A & M plan, most of them becoming jun-
ior colleges. The trustees of the Carroll ton school went on record as oppos-
ing any change in the status of the institution, despite the fact that con-
siderable sentiment had developed in the state legislature for the abolition
of the remaining district schools. Finally, in March 1933 the newly-created
Board of Regents revealed its plans to abolish the remaining A & M schools
and also to cease operating Bowdon College, They also announced their
Intention of creating a new junior college in western Georgia.

VJest Georgia College Begins

Carroll ton and Bowdon in Carroll County, and Powder Springs in Cobb
County each contended for the location of the junior college. A mass meet-
ing of Carroll ton citizens planned the community's strategy and later its
case was presented to the regents. On April 15 the regents announced that
the A & M campus at Carrollton would be the location of the institution to
be called West Georgia College. It would be in effect a consolidation and
reorganization of the three institutions in western Georgia which were to
be discontinued. Irvine S. Ingram, the principal of the A & M School, was
named president. This act gave a tangible symbol of continuity to the older
institution. In the meantime, however, on December 11, 1931, the ASM
trustees had held their last meeting, turning over the control of the school
to the newly-appointed regents of the University System of Georgia, Only
one of the trustees, T, Moreland Zellars, had served the institution con-_
tinuously from the beginning--a total of more than twenty-five years, Philip
Weltner, soon to become chancellor of the University System, delivered the
final ASM commencement address, on April 24, 1933.

Carroll County at this time claimed the largest rural white population
in the state. It maintained eight four-year high schools, half of which were
accredited. An average of 228 seniors graduated annually from these high
schools, a figure considerably above that for any county in western Georgia.
The people of the community, as they did in 1907 and 1908, gave their unstint-
ing loyalty and support to the institution in its expanded role. Local
civic clubs sponsored the grading of the athletic field and the building of
new tennis courts. Doctors donated their time for physical examinations of
students, and the municipal government of Carrollton contributed materials
and labor for sorely needed repairs to buildings,

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West Georgia College was designated as a terminal and transitional
institution, total expenses for the year were $162 for boarding students
and $36 for commuters. It launched almost immediately into an adult
education program which later won national recognition. In 1957 it became
a degree-granting institution, three years before its first president re-
tired. By 1965 the institution's registration had reached 2,000 and an
instructional staff of approximately one hundred. Fully 25 per cent of the
latter held the doctor's degree. Although one hundred of Georgia's 159
counties were represented in the student body, 58 per cent came from six
counties in the immediate area. While nearly all of the original ASM
buildings were intact in 1965, a complete new plant either had been
constructed, or was under construction, including a library to seat one
thousand students. The library contained in excess of 40,000 volumes.

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REMINISCENCES
of the
FOURTH DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL AND
MECHANICAL SCHOOL
Carrollton, Georgia

Nep S. Melson
Hogansville, Georgia
1941

Retrospection
1941

Having been shut in during the winter months, much of the time alone,
I have wandered often into the Land of Yesteryears. From my windows, I dis-
cern the western horizon. There, I have visualized many beautiful pictures
from the past, in opal, carmine and molten gold, splashed against the burn-
ished canvas of the setting sun. Time has billowed a silver mantle over the
hardships and trials that once harassed, for

"Memory sifts from its past the pain
And suffers the beauty alone to remain."

If reminiscing indicates advancing age, then I plead guilty, for my
mind reverts more and more to the scenes and experiences of the early Fourth
District A. & M. Days. As the past comes up in review, I see the bright,
joyous faces of those fine girls and boys who attended the school during the
years 1908 to 1920. As they trip through memory's ideal corridor, my heart
swells with love for every one of them, and with pride because of the contri-
butions they are making to the world's progress.

It has occurred to my husband and me it might be of interest to those
who were on the scene of action during those years--particularly to our-
selves--to have a record of some of the contemporary happenings. With the
advent of the radio, good roads, rapid transportation, consolidated schools
and other modern inventions and improvements, many of these incidents could
never occur again in this section of the country. Also, these events, re-
called after years of checkered experiences, more or less typify conditions
that existed in the early days at all eleven District A. & M. Schools, and in
a small degree, may help one to understand the important place these schools
filled in the educational history of Georgia. Hundreds of girls and boys
were helped who otherwise could not have had an education. There were other
hundreds, able to have attended more expensive schools, who came through pre-
ference.

The idea of the Agricultural and Mechanical Schools originated with
Governor Joseph M. Terrell in 1902. But the bill creating them was not pass-
ed by the General Assembly until 1906. The citizens of Carroll ton and Carroll
County donated $39,000.00 with lights and water for ten years, for the
establishment of the Fourth District School. Of this amount, $9,000.00 was
paid for two hundred and seventy acres of land, which was bought from B. A.
Sharp. The first two buildings, the boys' dormitory and the academic build-
ing, were erected by Mandeville and Aycock, contractors, for thirty thous-
and dollars, which represented the actual cost of building plus one per cent.
All furnishings and equipment were supplied by the state at a cost of fifteen
hundred dollars.

Each bedroom had a double bed, a combination dresser and washstand, a
study table, a washstand set, two straight chairs, a Hot Stuff Heater, and
shades. The classrooms, domestic science department, dining hall, and kit-
chen were adequately equioped. The teachers were paid by the state. The

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first year ten thousand dollars was appropriated for this purpose. As
time passed, this amount was increased. The price of board the first month
per pupil was seven dollars and thirty-five cents, which represented the
actual cost of provisions and fuel. During these thirteen years, the
board rarely exceeded eleven dollars. Numbers of the students worked their
way through school, in part or entirely, by doing extra farm work, or other
jobs about the school .

On December 6, 1907, Mr. Mel son and I with our two small children
moved to the A & M School, prior to its opening in January. The day was
bleak, bitter cold and everything was covered with sleet and ice. The two
buildings were surrounded by frozen red mud and tree stumps. The only water
connection was a frozen pipe across the road. There were no lights. The
buildings were unfinished. The only doors to the entire dormitory were
those hung to the three rooms which were to be our living quarters for the
next five or six years. The wind whistled and howled through the long
halls, and at night this sound was mingled with the' barking of stray dogs
and noises of other farm animals of the neighborhood, who sought refuge
from the cold in this building. After the first few nights, Mr. Mel son
improvised bars at the outside doors to keep out these nocturnal visitors.

To complicate things, a few days after moving to these quarters,
while we were in the midst of getting the dormitory furniture placed, Holland,
the irrespressible six-year-old, broke out with measles, and from then until
late March there was not a time when the house was clear of measles.

The first caller who came to welcome us was a kind-hearted old man,
whose head was drawn to one side. He explained he could not straighten it,
because he was just recovering from "yaller janders." Instinctively I asked,
"Oh, does everyone in these parts have yaller janders?"

Anyone with more judgment and less enthusiasm would probably have
turned back at this time, for aside from our physical discomforts, we were on
an unknown, uncharted sea without a compass. Nothing like an Agricultural-
Mechanical Boarding School in the South had been tried. But the indomitable
courage of my husband, combined with the vision of what the school would
mean to the country girls and boys, prevailed.

The school was opened January 8, 1908, with only two building--a
dormitory and an administration building, and both still unfinished. Two
classrooms were used temporarily as kitchen and dining room. Burlap and
quilts were hung in lieu of doors in the dormitory. One hundred and eight
boys and forty girls enrolled the first day. With snow and ice everywhere,
water pipes frozen, and only one servant, the cook, the task was not easy.
However, on the opening day, there was a semblance of school organization,
and a creditable luncheon was served to the student body, the eleven trustees
of the school, Governor Hoke Smith, and a number of other prominent guests
from Carroll ton and other parts of the district.

Even on as busy and trying a day as this we were able to note many
amusing things. For instance, one of the distinguished guests believed in

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such preparedness as was not uncommon in those preprohibition days. To
his great embarrassment as he made a sweeping Chesterfield bow on entering
the lobby, his silver flask dropped to the floor from his inside overcoat
pocket.

For the most part, this first student body was composed of older girls
and boys, whose opportunities had been limited, but whose ambition, earnest-
ness, and other fine qualities recompensed for all deficiencies. But not
all of these boys were saints by any means. If any of those carpenters still
live who were trying to finish the work on the dormitory, they will recall
the trouble they had in keeping up with their hammers and saws. There
may be others who remember when the ditches were being dug for sewerage,
between the boys' dormitory and administration building, and one of the
Bonner slave graves was accidentally ooened, how several boys began to dig
furiously over the whole area to see what they might find in the graves.
However, most of the students soon adjusted themselves to the school and its
routine and were really helpful in organizing. "We Learn to Do by Doing"
was adopted as the motto for the school. Throughout the years all work
except the actual cooking was done by the students under the supervision of
the teachers. This work included cleaning buildings and grounds, serving
the meals, dishwashing, farm work, shop work, dairying, etc. From the
beginning the work was divided fifty-fifty between academic and industrial,
and every student was required to conform to this schedule throughout the
thirteen years.

It was spring before the electric lights were installed. They were
turned on for the first time around nine o'clock at night. Earlier, one of
the boys had extinguished his kerosene lamp and retired. Sometime later
with a sudden start he awoke from a deep dream of peace, and saw not the
moonlight in his room, but the glaring electric light. He gave an unearthly
whoop, and with one bound landed in the hall yelling that the world had come
to an end.

When the school opened there were only two automobiles in Carrol Hon,
and of course they were a novelty to everyone, particularly to the investi-
gative A & M boys. Jim Cheney, who had charge of installing electricity,
and W. H. Campbell, who was looking after the plumbing of the buildings
were the owners.. These two men would have finished their jobs at the
school much earlier but for the fact that their attention was divided be-
tween their work and protecting their cars. A dozen boys were trying to
figure out the whys and wherefores of Mr. Campbell's car, parked back of
the administration building, when it went rolling down the incline, ran
into a tree and crashed the fender.

During the first year or two automobiles caused no end of trouble to
the farmers driving mules and horses. Coming from Randolph and Heard
counties, numbers of them would hitch their stock to just any of the trees
on the campus, and walk to town rather than have their teams meet one of
those "ought' er-be-in-hell" things. To protect the trees, Mr. Mel son
had some hitching frames and posts erected in suitable places. One of these
parties calmly announced he had put enough money in the school to hitch
his horse where he pleased, and that he preferred a certain tree to any of

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those posts--so to that particularly beautiful tree his horse was always
hitched!

Several girls were walking to town. A car was meeting a wagon and
mules. The mules made a sudden plunge and ran away. For safety, all the
girls scrambled up a steep embankment except one, who remained stone still.
^fter the excitement subsided someone asked Mary why she did not run. In a
superior manner she answered because she was not afraid, that she had seen
one of those things before.

Among the student body these first months was a mature man who was as
good and conscientious as any mortal could be. Mr. Melson found him crying
one night because water thrown from the window above his room, had spattered
and cracked his lamp chimney. A few years later he came to see us broken
hearted over the loss of his wife. He said she died from "information of
the brain," and asked if I knew anything about this disease. I assured him
it was the most dangerous of any to which the human race is subject.

The century old, two-story building east of the president's home on
the collece campus was the Sharp residence. Thomas Bonner who owned the
A. & M. lands from 1835 until after the civil war, had it erected for his
dwelling house in the early eighteen forties. Later this became the pro-
perty of B. A. Sharp. This house originally stood at the extreme west side
of the college campus and was rolled to its present location in 1913 at a
cost of seventy-five dollars. All furnishings remained in the house, and
even the chimneys were not damaged during the process of moving. For a
number of years it was used for the girls' dormitory.

Mr. Sharp built a new home on the Bowdon Road where his grandson,
Dudley Holmes, now lives. Jovial, genial, upright in his bearing, and in
his dealings with his fellow man, Mr. Sharp typified the old Southern gentle-
man in appearance and manner. Being a close neighbor of the school, he
suffered some from the pranks and depredations of the boys, but he always
maintained a tolerant rather than a censorious attitude toward the youngsters
On one occasion a group of boys noticed on his premises three early peach
trees, laden with red, luscious fruit. They asked if they might have some.
Mr. Sharp's answer was, "Sure, boys, help yourselves. Get all you want."
When the boys had gone, not a peach was left.

The first faculty was composed of J. H. Melson, Principal; G. G. Daniel,
Shop and Applied Agriculture; J. C. Britton, Science and Mathematics; Mrs.
J. C. Britton, History and English; Miss Leola K. Miller, Domestic Science.

Mr. Daniel was of great help during his three years stay at the school,
both in theoretical and practical farm and shop work, and was very popular
with the boys.

Mr. and Mrs. Britton were from Ohio and many of their theories were not
practicable for the southern rural young people, and they could not adapt
themselves to existing conditions. Mr. Britton suffered from a joke that
was really intended for another. A group of boys decided to test Sam Hull's

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boasted bravery. Everyone knew Sam was always alert to make money.
One night after the lights were out a boy went to him, and told him he
could not sleep because the bed was hard, and that he would pay him fifty
cents if he would go to a certain room, which was vacant because a
student had died in it, and bring him the mattress. As Sam began to roll
it, the mattress with sprinas rose up in his face. He gave forth a
blood curdling yell, and as he dashed toward the door, he grabbed the bowl
and Ditcher and hurled them in the direction of the bed. Attracted by the
scream and the succession of crashes, Mr. Britton came paddling down the
dark hall in his bathrobe and slippers to investigate. Just as he got even
with this particular door, the boy who had been planted under the bed to
raise it at the opportune time, was emerging from the room on his all fours.
Mr. Britton 's scream was louder than Sam's and he went tearing to his room
crying "cut it out, cut it out."

Miss Miller was from Pennsylvania. She was a sturdy, strong character,
very resourceful and energetic, ~ and left a lasting imprint for good upon
the girls of the school. This was her first experience in the South, and
she came with decided ideas for helping "the down trodden Ne-gro." She
planned the meals for Columbus, the cook. When Mr. Melson requested her to
carry the pantry keys, she thought it was not right to reflect upon Columbus'
honesty in that way. Mr. Melson told her it was all right for her to have
all the confidence she pleased in Columbus' honesty, but just continue to_
hold the keys. It was not long, however, until Columbus fell from grace in
her estimation. As he was leaving one evening, he forgot and lifted his
hat to bid her good night, and ground coffee came streaming down his be-
wildered, ebony face.

During these early days of the school all domestic science teachers
had to be secured from the North, because the idea of teaching a girl to
sew, cook, and do other practical, instead of cultural, things had not
permeated southern colleges. Miss Boyle of Illinois followed Miss Miller s
three-year tenure, and like her predecessor, her training in the northern
universities had been thorough and she was fine with the girls, but it took
time for her to make adjustments. National publicity had been given an
unfortunate Georgia lynchina a few weeks prior to her coming, and we learned
immediately that she came expecting to find a negro hanging to every tree.
Charlie Ball, the sensible, highclass negro cook, was as much amused as
we were, by her attitudes and general idea of conditions. When Mr. Melson
asked him in her presence if there was to be a lynching that night on the
school campus, Charlie answered that there was that the nigger was cauqht
stealing chickens again the night before. Miss Boyle's eyes almost bu|qed
from her head, and she immediately wanted to take steps to save the lire
of the poor, benighted man.

The crockery used in the dining room was the thick hotel variety common
to that period. Miss Boyle suggested that thinner cups be used, since she
feared the students might develop thick lips like the negroes.

The first year of the school passed without serious disaster, but it_
was most trying. The organization was not perfect, though we had the advice

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of the State and Federal Government and the State Agricultural College. No
school ever had a more conscientious and a more loyal Board of Trustees
than was this first board, who were:

G. P. Munro, Chairman Marion County

W. I. Van Horn Chattahoochee County

G. Gumby Jordan Muscogee County

T. H. Persons Talbot County

T. T. Thomasson Harris County

H. H. Lane Troup County

T. M. Zellars Coweta County

J , B . Sanders Heard County

J. W. Estes Meriwether County

, J. A. Murrah Carroll County

L. C. Mandeville, Treasurer Carroll County

Other men who later served nobly and untiringly on the board were Lester
Slade, Render Terrell, Sr., Joe Dunson, Sr., Oliver Moore, Charlie Roop, M. M.
Dickerson, Tom Wisdom.

Since this was a new type of school in the South, the Federal Government
from time to time sent experts of various kinds to make suggestions, critic-
isms, and reports. These were highly trained, technical men, usually with
delightful personalities, but they were not at all indigenous to conditions,
and were entirely unable to grasp the situation in the short time spent at
the school, or to offer any constructive suggestions. In making his report
after spending several weeks at the school, a man sent by the U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture, stated he was surprised to ftnd the school was not using
a pure strain of cotton seed, since he noticed white and pink blooms in the
same field.

The first commencement was June, 1909, when three boys and one girl were
graduated. There were industrial displays, actual dress-making and cooking
on the stage, and papers on scientific subjects. Mr. J. A. Aycock, who
had almost given his life for the school, said this was one of his happiest
moments, for his fondest hopes for an industrial school in Carroll County
had been realized.

The school during the first thirteen years had many difficulties, but
Carroll ton and Carroll County stood nobly by at all times. Some of the ruling
spirits were J, J. Thomasson, editor of Carroll County Times, who gave money,
time, and publicity; L. C. Mandeville and J. A. Aycock who not only erected
the buildings at cost, plus one per cent, but were ever ready to help in
every possible way; the entire Mandeville family--in times of sickness among
the students, Mr. L. C. Mandeville would bring arms full of bed linen, deli-
cacies, etc.; Judge Adamson, the Fitts, Henry Lovvorn, J. C. Bass, Herman
Reeves, Sid Holderness, Charlie Roop, Horace Stewart, Wylie Stewart, J. M.
Johnson, Charlie Tanner, Tom Bradley, the Baskins, George Haroer, W. B.
McLendon, W. R. Foster, Turners, Warrens, Barrs, Nixons, Lowreys, Almans,
Reids, Ernests, and scores of others. Any institution with such support as
these people gave this school during these years is obliged to go forward.

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Doctors Fitts, Hallum, Hambrick, Reese, Barker, Boatright, and Roberts
looked after the health of the students.

The spiritual welfare of the girls and boys was of paramount importance.
All students were expected to attend Sunday School, which was conducted by
the faculty in the auditorium. They were encouraged to attend services
each Sabbath Day in Carroll ton at the church of their choice, where a
warm welcome was always extended them. Miss Edna Cook of the Carroll ton
Methodist Church will have extra stars in her crown for her untiring inter-
est in these students. She frequently said she loved every boy in the
school, and was glad she was old enough to be able to tell him so.

Althouc^it is decidedly contrary to his wishes, yet I cannot refrain
from chroniclina my husband's attitude toward the work during this period.
Throughout the years he inspired the best in the girls and boys by giving
them his best in teaching, leadinq, and guiding them. He early taught
them to believe in themselves and their ability to do things, and he never
missed an opportunity to give encouragement, where it was warranted. His
ambition was to make human hearts wiser, manlier, happier, and better pre-
pared to cope with life's problems. Even in the matter of discipline the
students were compelled to recognize his justice and fair dealings. On
one occasion after administering punishment to a six-foot supposedly in-
corrigible, the boy walked up and shook hands with him, and told him he
would be a man from then on.

In the various tasks of the school he led the way, and never asked a
pupil to perform any unpleasant work with which he was not willing to help.
A trained nurse arrived one morning on the six o'clock train to take charge
of a sick student, and she was brought to our home for breakfast. In answer
to her question as to what position in the school he held, Mr. Melson answer-
ed that he was janitor. She seemed rather perturbed and disconcerted and
arose almost immediately from the table, saying she wished to interview
the president of the school as soon as possible. Mr. Melson assured her
that the president of the school would be in his office in about ten minutes.
When she reached the office he was there to greet her and to give the de-
sired information regarding her patient.

The summer months were not less trying for Mr. Melson than the scholastic
The crops were to be finished by the boys who remained at the school for
this purpose. Canning was done, and work of various types. During the first
years, he spent much time canvassing the eleven counties for pupils, via the
horse and buggy method. On those trips he spent the night wherever dark-_
ness overtook him. Some of these farm homes were delightful places at which
to stop, others were not. At one of these places the man of the house
offered him a toddy before supper. When he declined, the man explained that
he had to drink for his health's sake, because his wife was in the last
stages of tuberculosis, and that he had a child sick with typhoid fever.
For his own health's sake, at supper, Mr. Melson, after brushing the flies
away, ate the inside crumbs of corn pone and drank a cup of steaming hot
coffee. When the host showed him to his room, all windows were closed in

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spite of midsummer heat. Mr. Melson rolled the bed to one of the windows
which he had opened, wrapped his extra shirt around the pillow which he
placed on the window sill, sank down into a deep feather bed and slept as
best he could. During the best, most productive years of his life, Mr.
Melson unstintingly poured his strength, energy, time, and talent into this
school .

Early in the first session of the school a book shower was arranged as
a library nucleus. The people of Carroll ton and the district responded
liberally, and many of these books were very useful.

With the passing of the years, other buildings were added, more equip-
ment installed, a larger faculty employed. The dining hall and kitchen with
shop rooms beneath, and spacious barns were early acquisitions. A cottage
for the orincioal was erected. In 1915 the legislature appropriated seventy-
five hundred dollars for the girls' dormitory, with the understanding that
friends of the school would donate a similar amount. Judge Adamson contri-
buted fifteen hundred dollars of this amount, the largest single gift. In
order to secure the remaining six thousand, Mr. Melson begged, wrote stacks
of letters, and rode many long miles over the district, but in the spring
of 1916 he saw his dream come true when the beautiful girls' dormitory was
completed.

Space was left at one of the front corners of this dormitory for the
Placing of a Mery historic cornerstone. At the old Mcintosh Reservation on
the banks of the Chattahoochee River, just a few yards from the house where
William Mcintosh was killed by men of his own race because of his "f'^iend-
shin to the whites, stood an old horse block. Mcintosh had steps chiseled
out of a large piece of granite for the convenience of his white friends
when mounting a horse. An Indian had no need of such. Mr. Melson and
Mr J J Thomasson conceived the idea of making this horse block the
cornerstone of the girls' dormitory. After obtaining permission from
Dreston Arkwright, President of the Georgia Power Company, on whose property
the horse block stood, Mr. Melson, Mr. Thomasson, and several boys went to
the reservation and moved it to the A & M. This was placed in the corner
of the girls' dormitory with appropriate masonic ceremonies. The horse
block now stands near the entrance of the college campus, to which place
Dr. Ingram had it moved in later years. (This was later moved into the
area which is now located in front of the Slade Episcopal Kennedy Chaoel . )

The number of lives enriched by this school cannot be estimated. Not
only the students derived benefit, but it was very soon evident that the
influence of the institution pervaded the far corners of the district, as
was evidenced in the general imorovement of living conditions. As a/'esuit
of the industrial training, when boys returned home, they screened the doors
and windows; they made attractive furniture for the home, the porch and the
lawn On the farms, they introduced improved methods by terracing the lands
planting leguminous crops and using only pure seed. The splendid course in
domestic science insoired and enabled the girls to beautify their homes

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within and without. They learned to plan, prepare, and serve well balanced,
attractive menus, to entertain with ease. The school is responsible today
for scores of the beautiful, modern, well equipped, well kept homes that
dot the country side.

But this industrial training in no way interfered with the thorough
course in English, History, Mathematics, and the Sciences. Friendly
rivalry existed between the two literary societies, which held reqular_
meetings with interestina programs throughout the years. The social life
of the' students was not overlooked. There were frequent parties at the
school, picnics in season at Hayes' Mill or Simonton's Mill. The girls
and boys were often included in the church social life of Carrollton. They
always looked forward to going to Mr. L. C. Mandeville's camp for supper
in the fall. Mr. Mandeville would have them come in groups, and frequently
the whole crowd.

Commencements always attracted large numbers, and were the occasions
for renewing friendships by gay, haopy throngs from Carrollton, Carroll
County and all sections of the district. One cannot recall these days of
yore without thinking of Mr. and Mrs. Moreland Zellars, T. H. Persons, Judge
G. P. Munro, and many others, whose presence always attested their interest
in the school. Beina introduced to a very attractive young woman from
another part of the state at one of these seasons. Judge Munro asked her
just what relation she was to "old man So and So." Straightening to her
full height, in a very defensive, dignified way she answered, "He is my
husband. Sir." The Judge cleared his throat and said, "You are yery
fortunate. Ma'am, very fortunate. He is a fine old man, a fine old man."

The literary features and the industrial displays were always fine and
were centers of interest to many, but the annual barbecue for students and
commencement visitors was not less popular than these. This event was
the highlight of the entire year for Charlie Ball, the cook, who was a past
master in preparing barbecue. The meat was short one year. Mr. Mel son
announced to the crowd that one of the pigs got away the night before,
but he did not explain that the reason three pigs got away was because the
ice gave out. Followina these feasts the crowd would scatter in congenial
grouDS, and spend the afternoon seated in shady places about the campus or
on the porches. I have a very definite mental picture of Judge Sampson
W, Harris, Judge W. C. Adamson, L. C. Mandeville, L. P. Mandeville, Tom
Persons, Oliver Moore, B, A. Sharp, Judge Munro, J. J. Thomasson, Sid Holder-
ness, Charlie Roop, Morland Zellars, and others seated under the trees in
front of the principal's cottage. This, of course, was always a festive
occasion for the young people. There were many budding romances at this
time, which later developed into happy marriages among the students.

Beginning in October, 1910, district fairs were held at the school
each fall until 1917. A race track, grandstand, and large exhibit barn
were built, and also the auditorium was used for display space. Lewis
Heaton, John Matthews and Tom Henry were consecutive managers. All the
farm products usually found at fairs were shown. The women's exhibits con-

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sisted of dozens of quilts of beautiful and intricate designs, crocheting
and embroideries, literally thousands of jars of preserves, Dickies, etc.
There were the carnival attractions speeling forth to the accompaniment of
the ceaseless grind of the merry-go-round, and every known device to get the
nickles and dimes.

The baby show, featured during fair week, always attracted doting par-
ents with their young hopefuls. I usually made an entry here, and all of us
mothers whose babies did not win first prize attributed the fact to the
lack of intelligence of the judges. These judges wisely disaooeared after
the awards were made.

One of the most popular attractions at these fairs was Miss Mahalay
Lancaster's fortune telling booth. Miss Mahalay was about thirty years
ahead of the present costume jewelry craze. She was always bedecked from
head to foot with innumerable strands of beads, chains, with bracelets, pins,
and jewelry of every kind. With her cup and tea leaves she extracted many
a fifty cents from the girls and boys, as well as from some of the older
people.

By attending these fairs the people of the district learned what their
neighbors were doing, and the coming together meant much in a social way.
On Governor's Day the crowd attending sometimes reached six thousand. I
have a very vivid recollection of Governor and Mrs. Joe Browns 's day at
the fair. They were to arrive at noon. Early in the morning I had left
my living room, where the governor and party were to come, in perfect order,
and had gone to the dining room to assist with the luncheon preparation,
I parted company with nine year old Holland with a definite understanding
that we would meet at eleven thirty, for him to clean up before the arrival
of the guests. At the appointed time I rushed back to our quarters--Holland
could not be located. But in the living room I found a group of mothers
feeding at least a dozen children, with crumbs and trash everywhere. In
the bedroom, I surprised a woman who was examining the contents of my ward-
robe. Her explanation was that her husband had put money in that school,
and she had come there with the determination to see everything that was
to be seen. I assured her that her husband had not put a single thing in
my wardrobe.

All during the luncheon I had a vague apprehension as to Holland's
.putting in his appearance. As the crowd was leaving the dining hall,
pictures were made on the steps centering the governor, Mrs, Brown, Judge
and Mrs, Adamson. Just as the photographer snapped the camera, Holland,
barefooted, cap at a disreputable angle, with all the fairground dust and
grime that could possibly stick to him, appeared, and calmly took his stand
a few steps below the governor. This picture hung in the governor's office
several years.

On this same day, a woman fainted on the fairgrounds. She was brought,
still unconscious, to our inadequate apartment in the boys' dormitory. Now
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so in desparation I had her placed on the bed in the room occupied by my
young brother, Rabun Stevens, and Jeff Hammett. In a short time she was
sleeping quietly, so I darkened the room and forgot her for a while. But
not for long. Jeff found a way to go home. He and Rabun went hurriedly to
their room, and as Jeff was changing his trousers, he happened to glance
toward the bed and discovered the woman. He completed his toliet in the
hall. I was terribly shocked when they brought the information to me, and
I doubt if either ever suspected that I had previous knowledge of the
woman's being there. '

The fourth of July was always a gala day, particularly on election
years. The time that Tom Hardwick and Rufe Hutchens ran for U. S. Senate
and Nat Harris for governor, it was arranged for Hutchens and Harris to
address the voting public in the morning, and Hardwick in the afternoon,
along with numerous other candidates speaking. Some civic organization
was to sell and serve barbecue on the grounds. Before leaving home in the
morning, Mr. Mel son assured me that the committee on arrangements would
take Mr. Hutchens and Mr. Harris to the barbecue stand at noon, and that
he would bring barbecue home for our lunch. Mr. Hardwick would arrive too
late for lunch. At twelve-thirty, Mr. Melson appeared with Mr. Hutchens
and Mr. Harris, minus any barbecue. The speeches had been so prolonged
that the barbecue was sold out. I served them string beans left from the
day before, loaf bread, cold blackberry pie and milk. About two o'clock
again Mr. Melson appeared, this time with Mr. Hardwick, his erstwhile
college mate and friend. To the remnant of the other lunch, I added black-
berry jelly. Mr. Hardwick was gracious enough to assure me that he liked
everything that was made from blackberries.

The summer schools meant much to the rural teachers of the district,
and the dormitories were always filled to capacity with student teachers.
The best teaching talent of the state was provided by the Extension Depart-
ment of the University System, to assist the regular school faculty. These
summer school faculties were composed of such strong characters as Miss
Celeste Parrish, Dr. M. L. Duggan, Dr. J. 0. Martin, Miss Lurline Parker
(Mrs. J. 0. Martin), Miss Kate Parker, Miss Estelle Bozeman, Miss Susan
Matthews, Dr. Peter Brown, and many others. Such lecturers as Dr. M. L.
Brittain, Dr. Fort Land, Mrs. W. H. Felton, Dr. Henry Alford Porter address-
ed the teachers at night. On one occasion Dr. Porter was scheduled for
lecture, spent one night and left, because he was unable to sleep on account
of the unusual country noises. Atlanta's clattering traffic did not dis-
turb him, but he could not stand the country quietude that was punctuated
with the chirping of katydids.

During the years, our guests were composite. The great, the near
great and the never great came indiscriminately, and after we moved from
the dormitory into the principal's home, I rarely knew for whom a meal was
being preoared, Mr. Mel son's policy always has been that what we can stand
all the time, the guest can endure for a while. Also we were impressed
that really worthwhile fundamentals are the same in eyery station of life,
and the greater the person, the more adaptable he is. Some of the most
famous possessed the humblest and sweetest spirits. On a cold, blustery
March day Wallace, U. S. Secretary of Agriculture, the father of Henry

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Wallace, the present Vice-President of United States, appeared unannounced.
He insisted on going right out into the farm where Mr. Mel son was with the
boys who were plowing. Mr. Melson retains a vivid picture of Wallace's
Prince Albert coat being whipped around by the wind as he plowed two rows.
The boys got the impression that he did not know how to handle the mules
"^ery well ,

One of the most delightful guests I recall was from the English Depart-
ment of Columbia University. He reached the school unexpectedly to us about
noon. Mr. Melson ohoned me to add a plate for lunch. During the meal he
and Mr. Melson were teasing Martha, age six, when without a word she left
her chair, walked around and slapped her Daddy and returned to her seat.
In his bread and butter note, this gentleman wrote he admired the little
girl's come back, for she should not have been teased.

We felt the responsibility of these young people entrusted by their
parents to our care very keenly, particularly so in times of serious sick-
ness. Through the intervening years it has been a source of satisfaction
to recall that all the students felt free to come to us at any hour that
they needed us. We were able to helo them with their studies, to solve
some of their problems and alleviate their minor physical ailments. The
medicine cabinet was always stocked with the simpler remedies. Mr. Melson
bought CC pills by the quart bottle--these were known to the students as
soothing tablets. After taking one during the afternoon, Tom Rutland re-
turned in a few hours suggesting that he had better swallow two more, since
he felt worse than he did before he took the first.

Yes, these were thirteen busy years, years filled with sundry
experiences. During this time we were also rearing our own little brood.
The Lord gave us two of our children while at the school --1 ittle Ed and
Frank. Little Ed remained with us only nineteen months, and I can never
forget the thoughtfulness, tender symoathy and genuine grief of these girls
and boys when the baby left us.

Our own children seemed to have more than their share of contagious
diseases--Martha in particular, Dr. Boatright, by way of consolation, told
that she had caught everything except itch and smallpox, and that I could
be assured in due time she would certainly catch a husband. We were still
in the boys' dormitory when she developed scarlet fever, just five days
before school was to open in September. Something had to be done immediately,
on account of the incoming students. Mr. Melson had a three-room tenant
house in the pasture, which had been vacant for several years, thoroughly
cleaned and white washed, and two days before school opened, the two small
children and I moved to it for an eight weeks stay. I took charge of the
sick child in one room; Mrs. McKinney, the nurse, kept the three-month-old
baby in another, and the third room was an improvised kitchen. The big
job was to keep Martha away from the baby. This was a carefree period ex-
cept for my constant fear of encountering snakes, but even the snakes res-
pected our quarantine. It was a perfect autumn, the trees gloriously
beautiful, we were a mile from everybody. So during Martha's convalescence
she was entirely unrestrained, scattering the scarlet fever germs in her

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sand pile and under the trees with an abandon, that could not have been
tolerated if we had been nearer civilization.

Mr. and Mrs. Warren Meadows, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Stewart, Mr. and Mrs.
C. K. Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. Wylie Creel, Mrs. Georgia Matthews, Mr. and
Mrs. Marion Camp, the Simontons, Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Fitts, and many others
were our cherished friends throughout the years. We were invited to Judge
Adamson's home for dinner the Christmas before his first wife, Mrs. Minna
Reese Adamson, passed away, From then until we moved from the A. & M. the
Judae was always at our home, or we were at his, for Christmas dinner.
Charles Adamson, with his bride, came with his father one time, then a
year or two later the Judge was accompanied by his own new wife, the former
Mrs. Ellen Zellars Camp.

Some of the outstanding teachers who, after the first year, contributed
to the success of the school were: Mrs. L. J. Rozar, Messrs. R. D. Eadie,
Sanders, Rast, T. D. Futch, L. D, Corbitt, Folk, Amos Stephens, Norman
Causey, Miss Boyle, Mrs, Norris, Mrs. Katherine Spicer (Mrs. W. L. Fitts),
Miss Margaret Joseph ("Mrs. Charles Fitts), Gordon Robinson, Hall Carmical,
Miss Nell Tappan, Miss Estelle Darden, Miss Annie Sue McKie, Miss Martha
Munro (Mrs, I. S. Ingram),

Mrs. Rozar, the embodiment of culture and refinement, wielded a wonder-
ful influence over the student body. Small, delicate, dainty, she possess-
ed an exalted, unswerving sense of truth and right. She was strong in
discipline, a real teacher, and she had the love and confidence of the
entire student body. She was frequently shocked by the girls and boys, but
never to such an extent but that she was ready to help them correct their
mistakes and misdemeanors. She is conceded to be the mother of the District
High School Meets. The first organization of the kind held in Georgia was
outlined by her at Temple, where she was teaching, with several high schools
from nearby towns participating. A few years later, Joe Stewart of the
University System arranged the^Di strict High School Meets, which were
patterned after the original one in Temple.

Mr. R. D. Eadie was a natural school man. His greatest ambition was
to instruct and lead the students aright. He was noted for his disciplinary
methods, wise counsel and untiring efforts in and out of the school, that
resulted in lasting good.

Mr, L, D. Corbitt, who was with the school several years, was enthusi-
astic, strong in discipline, a splendid instructor and always loyal to the
best interests of the school. He exerted a wholesome, strong moral influ-
ence on all with whom he came in contact,

Mr, Amos Stephens possessed a splendid personality. He had good ideas
about practical and theoretical farming, and introduced many projects of
worthwhile importance. But his concept of administering a mustard plaster
was not in keeping with his knowledge of farming. I made a mustard plaster
for Mrs. Steohens according to the doctor's direction. Four hours later,

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Mr. Stephens sent for me to come to their home, I found Lucile frantic with
pain from a blistered chest, with Amos sitting by the bed holding the plaster
on her by main force.

Mrs. Katherine Spicer, who later became Mrs. W. L. Fitts, was the
acme of efficiency in training the girls along the aesthetic lines as well
as practical. All of her girls possess distinctive poise and skill acquired
from her training. Dr. Fitts was a real friend to the school. He never
presented a bill for service rendered to a worthy but needy student, and it
was never too cold, nor too late at night for him to come when his services
were needed.

In 1919 Miss Martha Munro brought youth, beauty and brilliance
to the faculty. She was at the A. & M, one year before Mr. Mel son and I
left, so she is the connecting link between the old and the new regime. In
1921 she became the bride of Dr. I, S. Ingram, who succeeded Mr. Mel son as
principal of the school. Her intellect, boundless energy and splendid
executive ability have been of inestimable value to her distinguished husband
in developing the school into the outstanding college that it is today.

More than two thousand students, representing several states and
two foreign countries, matriculated during these thirteen years. Some two
hundred of them completed the four-year course and graduated. Today, many
of Georgia's and America's most substantial citizens hold diplomas from this
school. The girls and boys, fine, straightforward, clean, brave, are scatter-
ed from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf, and some are in
foreign countries, but all are acting well their parts. Vlith Mr. Mel son
and me all their shortcomings lie behind in the distant years. Wherever
they are, and whatever may be their lot or station in life, God's blessings
upon them, for they are still our girls and boys,

"You may break, you may shatter
The vase if you will
But the scent of the roses
Will hang round it still."

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The Mcintosh Memorial

To the many people who drive into the West Georgia College campus, the
monument-like stone protruding above the green carpet of grass to the right
of the main entrance, is just another marker. Some stop to read the inscrip-
tion. Others pass it by unnoticed. To Harace Shinn, Howell Robinson, and
me, this old rock holds fond and unforgettable memories.

Horace, Howell and I were roommates in 1916, the year that the girls'
dormitory was finished. According to instructions from Professor Mel son,
we three boys early one morning, at four o'clock to be exact, hitched Old
Gray and Crap to the wagon and drove toward the Mcintosh Reserve, three
miles east of Whitesburg. Here we were to get a large piece of granite with

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hewn steps, that was used long ago by the white friends of the Indians
when mounting a horse. This was to serve as a cornerstone of the new
dormitory. We left without breakfast, sleepy eyed and chilled, but Mr.
and Mrs, Melson with Mr. J. J. Thomasson overtook us later in their Ford,
bringing us food.

We reached the reservation about noon. It was some job to load
the stone on the wagon. We got back to the school about nine o'clock
that night, starved and tired. This horse block may hold a definite spot
in the memory of the many people who took part in the exercises of laying
the cornerstone and dedicating the new dormitory in 1916; also of those
who moved it from the corner of the dormitory to its present location on
the college campus, but I believe Howell, Horace and I have a more feel inn
and more abiding recollection of it than anyone else may hold,

LEE H. BARR,
Tyus, Ga.

***

Surprised

At noon one day, Miss Munro carrying a dozen note books on her out-
stretched forearms was on her way to meet a class. As she reached the front
steps of the Academic Building, Ardy Chambers got up from a buttress, walked
towards her, placed his mechanical drawing board between her and the books,
and asked her' to look at his drawing, She admired it and started up the
steps.

As Chambers withdrew the board, Miss Munro saw a hand holding a half
dozen rats by their tails ready to drop the sauirming, squeaking, loathe-
some varmints into the large Docket in the front of her skirt.

Her mind went blank, and the next thing she knew she sat quivering at
her desk, trying to regain her composure before the bell rang for the next
class.

The boys and girls tiptoed into the room. In a deathlike stillness,
the afternoon classes dragged to a close.

All through the night, she tried to recall what took place after she
saw the clawing creatures that threw her into a state of terror.

Miss Munro liked the students and she thought they liked her. As the
night dragged towards day, she decided that the deed was not intended to be
a malicious one. Nevertheless, it had been a serious disaster for her.
She resolved to end the issue.

At the end of chapel the following morning, Mr. Melson called for
announcements. Miss Munro asked for the boys to remain in the auditorium
at the close of the period-, she wished to speak to them. The girls and

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teachers passed out. Mr. Mel son had no knowledge of the episode, and re-
mained out of curiosity.

Miss Munro rose to her feet. There was not a sound to break the quiet.
She glanced around, looked the boys straight in their eyes, then spoke. She
told them she was not a coward but that she had a great aversion for mice
and rats. In the past she had had no control over that feeling. Her relat-
ionship with boys had always been amiable and frank and she expected that
relationship to continue. She was sorry that southern chivalry at the Fourth
District Agricultural and Mechanical School was on the wane. If a boy's
idea of fun was to see a southern woman cringe in terror at the sight of
rats, a sad era had dawned. She told them that she would be constantly on
guard against further shocks and would exert every ounce of self-control that
she possessed to keep from affording some uncouth youth the pleasure of see-
ing her flinch. She had always treated them with courtesy and she would
expect them to give her the same consideration. Then she dismissed them.

Mrs, Mel son said Miss Munro was never the same after the experience
with the mice. From that chapel period to the close of school, the boys
were conspicuously courteous.

In the spring of 1920, Miss Munro found nothing funny in this story.
In the spring of 1941, she recalled the episode with a great deal of
amusement.

MARTHA MUNRO INGRAM, (Mrs. I. S. )
Carroll ton, Ga.

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For personal reasons, I resigned my position as principal of the A. & M.

School in the early spring of 1920 to take effect July 1, 1920, so on that

day we took our departure. Connected with our stay at the school, many
things are unforgettable.

Among them:

First, we had a loyal, cooperative, unselfish Board of Trustees. These
ten men, one from each county in the Fourth District, never received a penny
for their services to the school. Their criticisms were constructive, their
advice was sound and practical. I doubt if any institution in the state was
blessed with finer officials. I shall always cherish them and their memory.

Second, the fine characters of these boys and girls. The boys' chivalry,
the girls' modesty, with never a breath of scandal during the entire time,
naturally would leave an everlasting imprint.

Third, the unselfish, strong, industrious teachers with a high degree of
professional ethics, left impressions that time cannot erase. These teachers
gave to each pupil a part of themselves, hence they have living monuments
scattered all over the country.

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Fourth, the cooperation, support and cordiality of a large and varied
patronage, with only a few unpleasant incidents, cannot be forgotten.

Fifth, the hundreds of loyal, good friends scattered over the Fourth
District are our assets.

To all to whom this booklet may go, it carries with it our sincere
good wishes, with the hope that the remaining years may have just enough
clouds to make a beautiful, glortous sunset,

J. H. MELSON
Hogansville, Ga.

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A CHILD'S VIEW OF THE A 81 M

(1924-1933)

Anne Gayle Ingram

Although I am not an A & M alumni, I "was around" from 1924 to 1933 or
until the A & M was abolished and West Georgia took its place in my heart.
Myself, many stray cats, dogs, horses, hogs, chickens, etc. had the distinc-
tion of being born on the campus. So, when I walk into Cobb Hall, I feel
at one with the air, the ground, the sunlight and the breeze. After all,
that is the exact soot where I entered the world, in the room to the right
at the top of the stairs on the upper floor of what was then called the
President's House and what is now called the Alumni House. My mother died
of cancer in this house in 1955 with my father and I helpless and grieving
at her bedside, The Alumni House is very much ours; not by ownership of
property rights but by ownership hy spiritual possession - from 1920 until
1960 or for forty years.

My father's office at the A & M School when he was the principal was
in the Administration Building, which is no longer standing. All campus
residents received their mail at the campus oost office which was called
Genola, a contraction of the names Genny and Ola, My grandfather. Judge
George Pierce Munro was active in state politics when he was a young lawyer
starting out in Buena Vista, Georgia. When his candidate for governor, for^
whom he worked, won, he received a telegram saying, "God bless you, George.
My mother used to break into peals of laughter about this because he re-
ceived only the telegram for his trouble but Judge Munro was appointed by
the governor as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the A & M School and
these trustees selected the site of the new A & M school to be near Carroll
ton. My grandfather later acquired two sons-in-law out of helping the
governor get elected, Irvine Ingram who married Martha Munro and James
Bonner who married Ida Munro.

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The dominant theme of the A & M was one of working to learn and learning
to work. Countless numbers of students came with very little hard cash, but
the boarding high school offered work opportunities so that students could
supplement their personal funds with earned dollars. The A & M was not only
a high school but also a large farm with horses, mules, pigs, cows, and
chickens to be tended to by students and staff. When we had overnight guests,
they were awakened by the symphony created by thousands of chickens crowing
to greet the dawn. I didn't know that magnificent sound wasn't part of
everyone's life until house guests complained at what was an unearthly din
to them, but music to my ears.

The strangest thing about ASM days to the present generation is pro-
bably the means by which the students were disciplined for rule infractions.
For various transgressions, students were ounished by getting demerits which
they were required to work off. The more serious the offense, the more
hours of work were assigned. This created an endless supply of students _
available for odd jobs such as digging up stumos, weeding a garden, working
on the farm or planting a garden. The students referred to the work penalty
as getting "stuck". It seems like hundreds of A S M Alumni have told me
that they worked in mother's flower garden. She was an avid gardener. The
hotter the day and the harder the job, the more joy she derived from it. I
suppose that one hour of being "stuck" working under my mother's supervision
made a lasting impression.

The soil around the house was poor but mother built it up by burying
peach peels, apple cores, etc. She ^Iso hired me, at five cents a bucket,
to go to the woods below the house and bring back "wood dirt," rich black
leaf mold, yery soon she realized I didn't share her love of digging,
planting, weeding, etc., and let me help in other ways. For her, gardening
was all joy and she was out from early morning until twilight. Consequently,
I grew ud surrounded by gorgeous flowers blooming all during the flowering
season--peonies, gardenia, phlox, camel ias, roses, larkspur, daffodils,
chrysanthimum, crab apple, flowering dogwood, Japanese Ouince, butterfly
bushes, hydrangeas, wild plums, pansies, jasmine, hyacinth, snow drops,
cosmos, iris, tulips, violets, ragged robins, oxalice and on and on. Each
day would bring a new spectacle of beauty. Living as we did, in the midst
of a garden, was a place of wonder and beauty for a child. As though keep-
ing up with all of this was not enough to keep my mother occupied, at a
later date she planted a vegetable garden. Then a procession of fresh
vegetables, strawberries and raspberries began to appear on our table. My
mother's energy and art as a gardener makes me tired to even think about the
work involved. The secret was that gardening was play to her.

There was a permanent group of children who lived on campus and many
transients. When' I was four or' five years old, my permanent companions
were ploy and Tracy Gentry who lived in the Bonner House - moved to its pre-
sent location in 1913. A year or so later the Hughey's moved into a house
behind the Bonner House, My elementary school chum was Sue Folsom: we both
went to Maple Street School and were in the same grade. Our band liked to

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climb up on the roof of the chicken house, located behind my house, and
jump off. We did that endlessly. There was a chicken house with an in-
cubator down behind the Bonner House and one night it burned down. An
A & M student had planted one row of popcorn behind that chicken house and
the crop as well as the building were completely destroyed by the fire
caused when lightening struck the incubator.

During those years, the road that runs in front of the present Physical
Education Building went straight to the Bowdon Highway. Near the present
Student Center was an extensive system of red barns and stock pens for
mules, horses, and pigs. The dairy barn and silo were located about where
the Library is now." At milking time the cows would be waiting lined up in
the stalls in this barn. The boy who milked the cows sat on a stool and
hand milked each cow. The next step was to take the milk to the "dining
hall" where the milk was churned into butter. An A & M student taught me
how to milk, how to churn the milk to make butter and how to separate out
the butter and mold it into round half pound shapes.

One of the most lasting memories I have is crawling under the Hughey
house and the thrill of finding an egg a hen had laid in a dirt nest. The
house was low on the ground and only a four or five year old child was
small enough to retrieve an egg which the cackling of the hen announced.
The Hughey chickens roamed freely and only by keeping an eye on the chickens
would you know where to look for eggs.

Every summer, young and old alike went blackberry picking. What is
now Sunset Hills had numerous blackberry patches and we roamed all over
following the wild berry crop. The blackberries were served with milk
and sugar or made into pies or jelly. Wheat was invariably planted down
the hill in the back of our house and this area was also an apple orchard.
There were numerous apple trees and one glorious pear tree. Arthur, other
children and I played hide-and-seek in the wheat. In the summer we would
climb the apple trees and stuff ourselves with tart green apples. Mother
liked to read, which kept her occupied, and she never guessed how many
green apples I ate. Mother very seriously would tell me that eating green
apples would give me the stomach ache. I looked piously down at my feet_
when she gave this warning. A big pine tree had fallen and provided a fine
screen for hiding to eat apples. We could climb the apple trees, collect
a bunch of apples and, shielded from view by the pine branches, gorge our-
selves. Those were the golden days of apple eating and, no other apples
have ever tasted as good.

An event happened when I was four or five years old. I performed on
a program held in the old auditorium located upstairs in the Academic
Building. That building has been torn down and where it was located is now
a park area with the corner stone mounted as a monument. Probably several
other children also took part on the same program. I dressed like Little_
Bo Peep and holding a shepherd's crook, I marched out on the stage and said
my speech: "I'm little Bo Peep, I get lots of sleep, Windows wide are my
great pride, For I'm a fresh air girlie." The A & M students gave a loud
round of applause which the speech did not warrant. The ovation was an
indication of their youth and charity.

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The Academic Building was the center building where the Ubi-ai-y. Jf =
and J sroor:ere located. On the left as Melson Hall nown a , e

^^"-afte^r^: '^ll' Tl^f^to \.flVsl.^tltl\llXll^ " stl^f

S iSs?rrt r;eSVade= ^il^ IJ^^^^^^'^^
Bblldowl" Just ^bout that time, I heard my mother's voice singing out my

iSi -re^^s^sf irean.:ri=st?trn-t L-^nr

:fa?hl. "^ ^;^:^^^t^ T I Hlnr r Ju^l Toted

weevil destroyed the cotton crops ^^^^^^f^^-, cotton oroducina state and

Sugar cane was always grown somewhere on the farm.

It was wonderful to ^^^eon.the edge of the woods Great^t^^^^^^
crowing close to our house. Ounng ri^hten "9 storms sine tne^^^ ^^

on high ground, there f^^^^f ^^^J^'^'^l^ .'^^.^if to the hiuse was struck! Very
ear splitting sound when a ree located clo e to e hou e was^^^ ^^.^^^ ^^

soon afterwards,_we would lose the tree Living as beautiful symphony
the woods, the night creatures, bugs and insects crea^ dawn-with,
only surpassed by the birds in ^he forests at the mstign ^^^^^^^

-0--?^; ^??eri-rafn!^rret d ^^ oji.htening bugs darting^ ^

rofsn:^ \:;^l^^el^^ Z^T7l.fU'Z%^o..r.^. punts in

the night breeze.

When I was about six years old, l-f.^ZlnnTTrt thaf Saron^'it'wfs'
in a broom. I was presented with a small broom f ^^^^.^^Jellises along

_.. ,-u +^ ruioon thp frnnt nnrch. At that time, Lnere wci c

job to sweep the' front porch,

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the porch and clusters of pink roses grew on them. But the discouraging
thing about the porch was that it was so big and the inevitable red dust
made it necessary to sweep it every morning. Too late, I remembered my
mother saying that one way to avoid certain undesirable tasks was to never
learn how to do them. She said she never milked her family's cow in Buena
Vista because she said she refused to learn how. I made my fatal mistake
when I was too young to plan the strategy to "not learn how" to use a
broom. Keeping the porch clean became my responsibility from then on. ,

My confidence in the ability of the A & M students was unlimited and
there was not a thing, I thought, that they could not do. When my mother
and father took me to Florida and I first saw the Atlantic Ocean, I was
overwhelmed and greatly impressed. The rest of the trip, I talked constant-
ly about my chance for the ASM boys to "build me" an ocean in front of
the house across the road. It would be great to look out over the ocean
while I was sweeping the front porch. Mother and Daddy didn't comment on
my plans and made no response to my excited planning. After I came home,
I kept waiting for the A & M boys to start on the ocean but they never did.

Out in front of our house was a big tree. One limb accommodated a
swing and a limb on the other side held a trapeze which I called an acting
pole. My favorite pastime was standing up in the swing and pumping to
make it go as high as it would go. From the trapeze I learned to hang
by my knees, hang by my feet and skin the cat. The other children and I
taught ourselves to do cartwheels, hand springs, flips and walk-overs. My
first career ambition was to join a circus but that ambition withered on
the vine because there was no circus around. All my childhood friends
were circus-minded. One summer workmen put a new tar coating on the roof
of the boy's dormitory and left us the metal drums to play with. We learn-
ed to walk on the drums by taking quick steps that caused them to roll
forward. At the wood working shop, an A & M student made stilts for us
and we learned to walk on them. Once you learn to do this, you always
have the skill. All during those days, we had a variety of see-saws. _ It
soon became boring to sit and go up and down, so we learned to stand in-
stead. One bad moment occurred when my partner jumped off when his end
was down and the plank reacted like a catapult to send me hurling out
into space. We learned how to make whistles which had to be made when the
sap is rising because the bark has to slip off and slip back on after pro-
per carving is completed. We would go to the woods, find the right kind of
wood, make the whistles and blow them. About that time, my friend Arthur's
parents gave him boxing gloves and we learned one or two things about the
manly art of boxing. His daddy bought him a gun and we spent hours shoot-
ing at our home-made shooting gallery of tin cans. Every nickel I could
spare would be saved to buy 22 rifle shells.

That was the summer that they were building a log cabin and before
it was completed, it was a great place to climb. I crawled out the top
window onto the roof of oak shingles. It was raining which made the roof
slick and I felt myself gradually sliding towards the edge, alarmed at
not being able to stop the slide. It was a fifteen foot drop.

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It was always a treat to visit the dining hall. For years, the food
was cooked on big black iron stoves that burned wood. Bob Jackson, or
Uncle Bob as we called him, was an excellent cook and a fine oerson. He
would split hot biscuits and fill them with butter and sugar for us or he
would offer us tea cakes. He walked from town out to the school about four
o'clock eyery morning to get the wood stoves fired up in time so breakfast
could be made ready for the early rising of the A & M students who had
chores of feeding the livestock. When he was elderly and retired, he came
to my high school graduation and looked so distinguished in a white linen
suit". But in the kitchen, he wore a white apron and white chef's hat.

One summer it was the rage to get stocking loops from the Carroll ton
mills, dye them and crochet cotton scatter rugs. All summer long. Barton,
Arthur and I stayed on my big porch crocheting rugs. Barton was one year
older than I was and had moved into the Bonner House--which everyone started
calling the Gunn House, ^^y rug always rippled and waved, but Barton could
crochet so well that his ruqs always lay flat. His ability to crochet was
particularly annoyina and I learned the meaning of the word "envy." During
World War II, Barton"' was a fighter oilot but we envied him that summer be-
cause he could crochet.

About the year 1931, picnicing was great fun and there was a deep
gully over near the barns in the pasture which bordered on the woods. In
dry weather the aully was deep and had a dry sandy bottom. This was
filled with a torrent of water when it rained but normally only a small
trickle of water ran throuch the gully. We didn't go to that pasture alone
but only on planned safaries when accompanied by Emmie Lou Beal . One summer
day we started out, Arthur, Sue, Emmie Lou, Barton and one or two others.
Arthur brought along his net; a yery stupid dog. I was first to cross a
fallen tree over the gully and had no mishap. Meanwhile, the dog found a
yellow jacket's nest in the gully just below our bridge and without caution
he poked his nose into the nest to satisfy his curiosity. The yellow jackets
swarmed out and attacked the dog and as well as the other members of the
hiking party. The dog ran frantically to escape while yelping piteously as
it was pursued by the swarm of angry yellow jackets. The person carrying
the lunch dropped it by the yellow jacket nest and fled. We had to leave it
there because the yellow jackets continued to swarm.

A longline of students studying at the A & M helped the band of children
with all these activities. The available information or know-how became
part of the magic the A & M students could provide because one of them could
always give basic information on how to accomplish what we wanted to do--from
building a see-saw to putting up a swing.

Life during A & M days was at a slower pace and you could see the result
between cause and effect. If you didn't plant the seeds, the garden didn t
grow. That is a profound lesson to learn when you are young--and the A &j.
students were young. That may be why I think they have been such responsible
and successful adults. People may go faster and further now, but some of the
elegance of living has disappeared along with the family horse, the family
cow, and stray chickens contemplatively stalking around the yard.

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Humorous Insights Into the Life and Times of Former Students

of the A & M School

Aeroplane Crash at the Fair

I entered A & M in 1911 but in April of 1913, my father took me out
of school to help on the farm. Later, I went back and graduated in 1914.
Many of my pleasant memories of A & M center around the fairs held on the
campus every fall. I worked at several amusement stands and no entertain-
ment cost over a dimel I'll never forget that during one of the fairs an
aeroplane crashed on the race track. No one was injured, but a wing was
torn off the plane. This was the first aeroplane I had ever seen.

--W. Parks Henderson
Class of 1914

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Cadillac Bolts for Home

At the A & M in the early 1920's when there was a small load to be
transferred, the horse, Cadillac, was hitched to a light dray wagon.
Cadillac was a gentle horse, so the use of a throat latch on the bridle
was not considered necessary.

One day, Clifford Hammond and I had hitched up Cadillac to the wagon
to carry a load of milk to town. We were returning to A & M. When we
were about half way back to the campus, old Cadillac, with a violent shake
of the head, as if stung by a hornet, threw off the bridle. This surprised
us and left us completely without control.

Cadillac lunged forward off the road into the yard of a house. The
wheel of the wagon struck a tree; where upon, the shafts to the wagon broke
and so did the harness. Cadillac left for A & M at a gallup, leaving Clif-
ford Hammond and me to pull the crippled wagon to school. When Cadillac
appeared on campus without the wagon and wearing the torn harness, there
was considerable speculation as to what had happened. We heard quite a lot
from Mr. Ingram the next day about "Hammond and Baird" letting old Cadillac

run away with them.

--J. Pope Baird
Class of 1925

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The Maid Answers the Phone

Mrs. Ingram gave this account of an incident which occurred in her
home. She was confined to her bed, perhaps when Anne was only a few days old

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-^rZ:;^ nS^ih^o?^: ^X'^l^r^^^s Zl sLe ,iH WHO

answered the telephone a while ago," the maid said.

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Little Wise Cracks, Little Foibles

Over the years, I have remembered little wise cracks and little foibles
uyer ine ^^'^^ ^! . ' '' . ,, . o m who were very dear to me. One Sunday
of various personalities at the A & M ^5 !^f^;.^^'^. Mabel and I were sitting

fainted. Roy bore her to the shore in his arms. __^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^

Class of 1912

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Cure for Love

from classes, Mrs. Ingram had the office phone my P^^^nts My t ^^^^ ^^
immediately and visited me in my room. /ft^^/^^/^'^'^Jottle of castor oil.
to Carrollton where he purchased his one ,^"''^-=, lUtered to me a large dose.
He returned to my "sick room" and P^r^""^^,^,^";'^^ next day The male in
With that, he left for home. I was back in class ^^e ^"t day ^^^^^^

rnriiv"elo?r;a:grfrr :it"her Tf llTlen^JTlll^^^l ^eg.ired a dose of
castor oil. Ruth Hammond Bush

Class of 1925

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Chelsea Barker and Magellan

In 1926-27, Mr. Ingram was a handsome, dapper young administrator.
I can still see him in his patent leather, soft-soled shoes, his neat suit
and nose glasses. All of us adored him. One morning we went to our American
History class and each one was supposed to have five biographies of out-
standing Americans of that period in our history. Chelsea Barker came in
asking for help saying that he had only two of the five. He was great at
impersonations so he stood up with his back to the door and began to panto-
mime and mimic Mr. Inaram. He reached for his nose glasses and held them
in his hand. He said^ "Mr. Reed, please read your biography of Magellan."
In the meantime, in his quiet way, Mr. Ingram had entered the room. All
knew this exceot Chelsea. Chelsea continued, "Don't sit there like a dum-
bell. You heard me, let's hear about Magellan. If you don't^^have your
homework, I'll assign you twenty hours of work on the campus." Chelsea_
was about to rant forth again when Mr. Ingram cleared his throat and said,
"Sit down, Mr. Barker, and read your biography of Magellan." Chelsea
literally folded up into a \fery short guy as he reached his desk. Franti-
cally, Chelsea brushed through his notebook and began reading. When he
finished, Mr. Ingram said, "It's a good thing you had your assignment or I
might have given you the punishment you thought proper for Mr. Reed." At
a later date when we had a party and Chelsea was asked to imitate Mr. Ingram,
Chelsea replied, "No thank you. I imitated our beloved Mr. Ingram one time

too many."

--Pearlye Maye Kelley

Class of 1927
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One Sunday Suit

My days at the old ASM have so richly blessed my life. My father
died when I was just two and a half years old. Life was a struggle after
that for my mother. We had plenty to eat but not much to wear. There
was no question of which suit to wear on Sunday--! had one Sunday suit.
Welfare had not been "born" then. I had to pick cotton before I could
enter school in the fall and in the spring, I had to take time off from
school to chop cotton. In those days opportunities came to those who
were willing to work to make them happen.

When I was twenty-one, a yery friendly banker loaned me the whole sum
of one hundred dollars with which to enter the A & M School. I picked
cotton at the A 8. M in the fall, and plowed with the gray mule in the
spring. Two of us dug the ditches for the water main and sewage pipes
for the girls' dormitory, Adamson Hall. The Bonner House was the old
girls' dormitory. We country boys had placed bids for the job of doing
this and we did get the job, but we bid too low and lost money. We went
ahead with the job and used the two gray mules to plow out the ditch and _
then we used a terrace plow to drag the dirt out. What we got out of this
was a real sense of accomplishment but no additional money.

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I once read that the privations of youth are the pillows of strength
in mature years. I tend to agree with that philosophy. I knew a boy who
arrived from Heard County with a barrel of sorghum syrup loaded on a two
horse wagon The sorghum paid his entrance fees. If welfare had existed
then! a iSt of young men and women would never have learned to work. How
would Abraham Lincoln have turned out if he had never had to split rails?

--Solon W. Ware
Class of 1918

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Flirting With Trouble

DisciDline was different in those days. Boys who smoked were advised
in the cataloa not to apply for admission. But, of course, some boys did
Ike'buf hi'ed not'to ^^t'caught.. In the winter, the ^oys blew the smoe
UD the chimney of the wood stove in their rooms. When .he stoves were taKen
down after the weather became warm, the boys stood on their tables and blew
Ssmke' through the holes left in the ceiling where ^Je stove pipes ad
been. For infraction of the rules, boys who were caught ^^^^ing had to dig
up stumps from a field approximately 30 feet wide and one half mile long.
By Christmas vacation, the field was cleared.

One Saturday afternoon, while I was confined to my room, I hea^^d the
girls caling me^o come and play tennis with them. Knowing ^ ouldn t
I loined the girls on the court. After the second serve, m. ss Miller came
ro^nSthe co'rner and spotted me. Even though ^^^^ immediately went
to suDoer with fear and trembling. Before I could eat a b te, I telt w.

S 1 n^s firm hind upon my shoulder and heard ^i^^^^f ,^^ ;^S^,^?o'io ^
to his room. Upon entering his room I confessed I was in the wrong to join
the qirls on the tennis court when I was restricted to my room but that I
d' dn^lknow what I was going to do. I told him that I cou n't e sen
home because mv mother had told me not to disgrace the family. I explainea
that I didn't have anywhere else to go. Mr. Mel son deliberated a moment
and then he told me that I could stay at school, but not to ever get into
this kind of trouble again. I never did.

The students had a coffee boycott in 1909 The ==^ of our meals were
nrn rated Der student. The dishwashers noticed lots of sugar left in our
co?fee CUPS L the students voted that coffee was a waste of money and we
would do without it I haven't had a cup since that time which was a long

time ago.

When the school first opened, kerosene lights were used until two bene-
facto oresented us with a generator fired by a wood burning boiler The
hnvs took turns firing the boiler at night. During one of my turns to
fire the bo Ter, the oackinn blew out the cylinder of the engine I res-
cinded by si gnaing the distress call - two blasts of the thistle The
professor, w'ho was'on duty to answer the^signal an assume res obi Y
for the problem, reported that I ran so fast that I reached the aormiLory
before he heard the second toot.

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Professor Eady lived on the top floor of the dormitory and he kent a
close check on us. Barnett and I roomed on the second floor over the oorch
so our room was used for an escape route. One night there was a carnival
in town and many boys slipped out of the dorm to go to the carnival. I
was already on restriction, so I was afraid to take a chance and go.
Around 11:00 o'clock at night, after I had helped several boys in throuch
the window as they returned from their daring jaunt, Mr. Eady knocked on
our door. When he asked if I had gone to the carnival, I could truthfully
answer no. When he asked about Burnett, I answered that he was in his bed.
Poor Burnett didn't have a chance when Mr. Eady looked down at him. Mr.
Eady said to him, "Don't deny you've been to town, your hair is all combed

and in place,

--C. B. Culpepper
Class of 1910

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Sewing Class

I recall a couple of incidents that occurred while I attended the
A & M but getting an F in home economics stands out in my mind to this day.
One day I was attending a sewing class taught by Miss Petty, the home
economics teacher. The subject was always boring to me and on this day,
someone whispered a silly remark in my ear, I started giggling and couldn
stop. This displeased Miss Petty to the point that she "stuck" me with
twenty five hours. This meant that I had to v/ork all these hours clean-
ing the home economics classroom.

Sewing was just not my talent. This same class was assigned to make
a dress with long sleeves. I worked very diligently but made an unforget-
table and unforgivable error I sewed the bottom of the sleeve into the
armhole. To my dismay, I received an F for this project. This was my
first and only F that I received in all my years in the school and I was
heart broken. Fortunately, the F never appeared on my permanent record.

--Mildred Caswell Matthews
Class of 1927

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Model T Ford Loses Wheel on Jaunt to Athens

In the summer of 1925, about eight boys stayed on the campus to work
on the farm between school terms while most of the students were home.
That summer Mr. Ingram attended summer school at the University of Georoia
and, in his absence, Mrs. Ingram had charge of things. My sister, Inez
McGarity was working in the office at the time, so at least oart of my
family was with me. Late in August the time came for someone to go to
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door Model T. Ford. That was the tallest car I believe that I have ever
seen before or since. You never saw so much glass on one car and it wasn't
the unbreakable kind. Anyway, on a hot summer day, Mrs. Ingram, Inez and
myself made ready for the trip and took off. I was everything but an
experienced chauffeur but I didn't let on about this to anyone else. The
Ingrams thought I knew the last word about cars. There were no paved roads
whatever until we reached Atlanta. When we got to the street car line in
Atlanta, I became increasingly nervous because I knew we were bound to come
upon a street car. I had been told that it was against the law to pass a
streetcar that had stopped to take on and unload passengers. As scared as
I was, I passed those rattling, clanging monsters without any mishap.

The highlight of the trip was the Model T losing a back wheel near
Villa Rica. A mile or two before we got to this town, Mrs. Ingram showed
me a short-cut so we wouldn't have to go through town. The road was red
clay and there was flurry of red dust billowing up any time a car passed.
Just as we turned to take the short-cut, we started down a steep hill and,
to my consternation and fright, the left rear wheel took off on its own,
passed the Model T which sagged to a stop, and the wheel raced on down to :
the bottom of the hill. There was nothing I could do but to go and get the
wheel and bring it back. Since I knew so little about cars, I had no earthly
way of knowinq what caused the wheel to come off and I certainly had no idea
of how to fix it. The car, minus the wheel, sagged where it stopped and
Mrs. Ingram and Inez, who were still sitting in the back seat, looked as if
they had dropped down three feet. I found a man who knew all about cars to
come and see' if he could put the wheel back on. Without much a do, he fixed
it and we continued on our way to Athens. This jaunt to Athens was a good
two day trip and we must have had at least five or six flat tires in all. I
was relieved when we arrived safely back at the A & M. Although the trip was
hectic, I gained considerable confidence in myself since I had proved myself

able to cope.

--Harold McGarity
Class of 1927

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A & M - A Family School

Mrs. Ingram was my wonderful English teacher when I was a senior. She
and Mr. Ingram coached our debating team, too, and she was a great helo
with my soeech that I delivered at graduation. Many of the A & M students
went by nick-names. One morning, when graduation was close by, Mrs. Ingram
was checking our names as they would appear on our diplomas. She came to
the name, Everett Lamar Upchurch. In her unique way, she looked up and
said, "Bo, is that you?" The class was amused for it was indeed our class-
mate, "Bo" Upchurch.

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The proximity of the A & M to people who lived in the West Georgia
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otherwise would have never had the opportunity to have an education. Many
a prospective student arrived on campus with no money in his or her pocket
but willing to work and Mr, Melson and after 1920, Mr, Ingram, accepted
them as students. Or a student arrived with a load of corn or cotton as a
down payment on admission costs and was allowed to stay. All these stud-
ents made good and worked their way through school so the confidence was
not misplaced.

The J. N. Arnett family benefitted greatly because of the work philo-
sophy of the school and the dedication of the Ingrams and other faculty
members of the Fourth District A & M School at Genola. An example of this
practice of numerous children from a family attending in sequence as they
reached the time to attend high school was my own family of brothers and
sisters. One by one we left home to attend the ASM; Harvey H. Arnett
0924); Olen J. Arnett (1924); Anne Arnett (1925); and Estell Arnett (1927)
Two of Arnett marriage partners graduated from the Fourth District A a M:
Adielea Coats (1927) who became Mrs. Harvey Arnett and G, Clay Sutherland
(1930) who later married Anne Arnett,

--Anne Arnett

(Mrs. Clay Sutherland)
Class of 1925

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An Unscheduled April Fool's Day Holiday

It was April 1, 1923 when April Fool's Day dawned. The Junior Class,
bent on mischief, voted to have a holiday as an April Fool's Day joke and
as the news spread, other students thought this was a great idea and were
ready to join in. A purchasing committee was selected to go to town to
buy a picnic lunch. The food was secured and the entire crowd playing
hookey from classes met down at the Little Tallapoosa River to enjoy the
unscheduled holiday.

There was one person who didn't enjoy the day because he had his
first chew of tobacco and it made him sick. 01 in Perdue nor I had girl
friends so we planned to wander away from the rest of the crowd and go
upriver to the "rock hole," which was a deep part of the river, and take a
swim. In those days you didn't need a suit because boys would find a
secluded spot and go in the buff.

Most of the students attending A & M were from rural farms and some of
the boys enjoyed the practice of chewing tobacco. 01 in was a city boy
and he had never chewed tobacco. He thought this would be a good day to
seek out this enjoyment of life that he had missed. So a friend obliged
01 in by providing him with a big "chaw," and 01 in and I set off toward

the swimming hole. We hadn't gone "^ery far before 01 in

tobacco was beginning to get to him and make him sick.

s "chew" of

He was a very sick

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the committee had bought for our lunch. Other than 01 in, the students had
a wonderful time.

Mr. Ingram couldn't kick everyone out of school who went on the picnic
because'almost the entire student body had gone. The spontaneous, unchaper-
oned event was glossed over and not much was said about it. The next year,
however, there was a track meet and other festivities scheduled for April
Fool 's Day.

--Ray U. Todd
Class of 1922

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Thumb Tack Revenge

A group of day students used a particular classroom over the lunch hour.
They would eat their lunches that they brought from home, talk and relax.
After the lunch hour, the room was again used as a classroom. It so happen-
ed that Mr. Ingram taught a class in that very room. We thouqht it a
great joke to place a thumbtack in the bottom of the chair used by Mr. Ingram
We set this up and waited to hear what happened in class. Mr. Ingram sat
in the chair for a very short time. He was quite unhappy about the incident
and I was told that he offered a cash reward for the name of the culprit
but nobody squealed.

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Boiler Room Chicken

A chicken farmer lived in the house whose farm adjoined the east side
of the campus. His chicken house was located near the prooerty line of the
A & M Frequently, some of the boys "borrowed" a chicken and cooked it in
the boiler room of the boy's dormitory. The contraband chicken seemed
to taste better than the dinina hall chicken because of the "risk taking"
involved, Willie Cook from Heard County was the chief chicken cook and a
darn good one,

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Working In The Corn Field

I'm sure that I was the first A & M student to meet Mr. Ingram when he
came to be interviewed for the job as principal of the A & M. It was a hot
and humid summer day in July, 1920, and I was working on the A & i1 farm
spreading nitrate of soda between the rows of head-tall corn. Mr. Ingram
was all dressed up in a suit and tie and he had driven up that day from
Waverly Hall in his tall, wide, black Ford sedan. The car came to a
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spread the nitrate of soda. In less than twenty minutes, he was perspir-
ing and saturated with sweat and fertilizer dust.

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Determined to be a Teacher

I was born in the country in 1893 on a little farm in Heard County
near Glenn, Georgia. From the first day of school, I knew I wanted to be
a teacher some day. The first school that I attended was a one teacher
school which consisted of an open fireplace at one end of the building.
There was a wood stove in the center, a stage, blackboards and a recitation
bench at the other end. All desks were double desks and homemade. A
cedar water bucket and dioper were on a shelf by the door from which all
the children drank. Water was brouaht in a bucket from a soring nearby.
Parents of the children brought wood to burn to heat the building. The
older boys keot the wood cut and the older girls took turns sweeping the
room and keeping the building clean. There were no free school books.
The teacher would send each student home with a list of the books that were
needed. The parents would qo to Franklin, the county seat, to buy them.
There were no report cards given out in those days. The only record kect
was the roll book and the teacher determined who was ready for promotion.
Lunches were taken from home to school in lunch buckets, paper bags or
wrapped in newspaper. Usually lunches consisted of ham or sausage, a bis-
cuit filled with syrup, a baked potato and occasionally a tea cake. The
games that were played were town-ball, cat-ball, hide and seek, stealing
pegs and jump rope.

When I was in the seventh grade, I had the privilege of attending a
two teacher school at Glenn, Georgia, but I had to walk two and one-half
miles to get to it. The State at that time was issuing seventh grade
certificates. I returned to the one teacher school for my last year be-
fore graduation. My studies were Latin, algebra, history, physiology _
and rhetoric. After completina my grade school education I obtained a job
in a general store at Glenn to' try to earn money for college. During the
summer, the trustees from the school that I had attended came to see me
and asked me to accept a job as a teacher of the same school where I had
so recently been a student. My father said, "Mo, Mae went to school with
those children. You are my friends and neighbors. I don't think she could
be a success under these circumstances." I was disappointed when he said
this, but the trustees came back the next week with a statement signed by
all of the parents asking me to teach their children. Daddy consented and
I became a teacher.

In 1912 I married but I continued to teach for two years. Then I
resigned to have a family and to raise five children. When the children
were large enough for me to do so, I returned to teaching in the Tatum
School near LaGrange. At the end of the year, the superintendent came to
me and said, "Mrs. Williams, we like you and want you here, but you need

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to have a high school diploma." It was at that time in my life, after
havinq raised five children, that I went to the A & M Summer School to com-
plete work for my hiqh school diploma. In 1927, my husband and five child-
ren saw me graduate. Some years later, I moved to Columbus, Georgia. I
could not teach in the Columbus School System because four years of college
were required to be certified to teach in Muscogee County. Mr. Moon, the
county school suoerintendent, never-the-less, helped me acquire a job as
a substitute teacher so I did continue to teach after all. Four of my
five children attended West Georaia Colleqe. I do not regret any of ihe
inconveniences that I had to get my certificate and my family bond is with
both the A & M and West Georgia College.

--Mary B. Williams

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THE ALUMNI HOUSE

The Alumni House was built in 1914 and was originally located where
Cobb Hall is now (1977). Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mel son moved into Mel son Hall
when they arrived in 1907 to prepare for the opening of the A & M School in
1908 The Academic Building and Melson Hall were both unfinished but a
small apartment in a wing of Melson was habitable and this is where the
Mel sons lived almost six years until the Principal's House was built and they
moved out of the dormitory and into the house. Their two children Hoi and
and Martha, were already born when Mr. Melson became Principal of the A & M
School. Ed and Frank were born after they arrived on campus but Ed died, to
the Melson's great grief, when he was only 19 months old. Melson Hall was
the residence of the boys and the Melson family and the Bonner House was
the residence of the girls. At that time it was located at its original
location, somewhere in the area in front of where Sanford Hall and Mande-
ville Hall now stand. The Bonner House was moved to its present locat on
in 1913. The Melson family were occupants of the Alumni House from 1914 to
1920 or only six years. It was known as the Melson House ^hne they lived
there or the Principal's House. When Mr. Melson resigned in 1920 the next
Principal was Irvine Sullivan Ingram. He moved into the Principal s House
in 1920 and his mother, Annie, a widow, accompanied him, as Mr. Ingram was
27 years old and a bachelor. . .

Annie Irvine was the sister of Reverend W. T. Irvine, Methodist minister,
who became District Superintendent of the district in which Carroll ton was
located in 1920. Their father. Captain W. T, Irvine, after the Civil War
was a teacher in Carroll County and spent the last ten years of his life in
the county Mrs. Ingram, Sr. lived in the house with her son until he _ _
married Miss Martha Munro, a teacher of English and literature who had join-
ed the faculty after her father Judge George Pierce ^^2'?hf L.'rH of^?rustees
connected with the school. Judge Munro was Chairman of the Board of Trustees
that selected the site of the A & M School. The members of the first Board
of Trustees were: G. P. Munro, Chairman; W. I. Van Horn, S. Gumby Jordon,

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T. H. Persons, T. T. Thomasson, H. H. Lane, T. M. Zellars, J. B. Sanders,
J. W. Estes, J. A. Murrah, and L. C. Mandeville.

Mrs. Melson said that Miss Munro was the connecting link between the
Mel son and the Ingram administrations because she was on the faculty a
year while Mr. Melson was Principal and was on the staff a year after Mr.
Ingram became Principal and before she married Mr. Ingram in 1921. His
new bride moved into the Principal's House which usually was called the
Ingram House or more formally, the Principal's House,

Anne Gayle Ingram was born, April 26, 1924, in the upstairs bedroom
and considered the house her home until her father, Irvine S. Ingram,
retired as President of West Georgia College in 1960, Mrs. Martha Munro
Ingram lived in the house from 1921 until 1955 when she died of cancer in
the downstairs bedroom, after losing a courageous and brave fight for her
life.

The house underwent a renovation in 1960 when Dr. Ingram* retired and
Dr. William Row succeeded him as President of West Georgia College. His
wife was Hazel Howell Row and they had two children, Rosalie and Howell.
In March 1961, Dr. Row died of a heart attack and this sad event ended the
brief stay of the Row family in the house.

Dr. I. S. Ingram was appointed to be interim President until a successor
of Dr. Row could be found and Dr. Ingram was President of West Georgia Colleqe
a second time from March until August 15th of 1961 when Dr, James Emory Boyd
became the third President of West Georgia College. His wife was Elizabeth
Cobb Boyd. They had two children, Betsy and Jimmy, The Boyds lived in the
house until the Rood house, the present residence of the President of West
Georgia College was purchased and renovated and the Boyds moved into the
new President's House, June, 1967,

The President's House or the Boyd House was moved to its present location
facing the Bowdon Highway, September, 1962. The Boyds continued to live
there, for approximately five years, after the house was moved. (Cobb Hall
was completed for occupancy in 1964.) The old Poop House was purchased
during President Boyd's administration; underwent renovation which was com-
pleted in May, 1967, The Boyds moved into the new President's House, June,
1967. This date marks the end of the old house being used as a residence
for the family of the Principal until 1933 and after 1933, the President
of the college. The house served in this capacity for a period of 53 years.

After this date the old residence was used for a variety of purposes.
In 1968 it housed the Center for Continuing Education. In 1973 it was

Oglethorpe University on the nomination of the faculty has admitted
Irvine S, Ingram to the Degree of Doctor of Education, sinned by
Phillip Weltner, President of the University, dated June 8, 1952,

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designated as the Alumni House. It is the Center for Alumni Affairs of the
ASM School 1908-1933 and West Georgia College 1933 to present.

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The house now known as the Alumni House was known as the Mel son House
for six years, the Ingram House for forty years, the Row House for about six
months and the Boyd House for five years. Or more formerly, it was known |

as the Principal's House, 1914 until 1933, when the A & N! became West Georgia |
College, and the President's House from 1933 until June 1967.

In 1973 the A & M Class of 1923 undertook as a project the refurnishing I
of the Alumni House and the chair of the committee was the late Blake Pullen. i
August 5, 1973 the picture of Mrs. Martha Munro Ingram was presented and
unveiled at the ceremony, making the completion of the restoration under-
taken by the Class of 1923.

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Human Interest Recollections
When the Ingrams Lived in the House

The room to the right at the top of the stairs remained unfinished until
just prior to the time Irvine Ingram and Martha Munro married in 1921, At
that time the room was finished and became the room of the newly married
couple.

The house, when built in 1914, was a ^^r^ simple cottage with dark
stained pine flooring, dark base boards and coal grate fireplaces in ^mot)]
room. The house was extensively renovated one summer, probably around 1934.
Plastering was reolaced, hard wood floors laid, French doors hung, built in
book cases installed and other improvements made. The room used as a
library was the room on the left as you enter the front door. This room was
referred to from then on as the library. The interior of the house was great-
ly improved after this renovation. Through the years, Mrs. Ingram selected
furniture and rugs for the house. Mahogany antiques were purchased by the
Ingram family when Mrs. Ingram found what she liked. The school did not
start the practice of buyinq any furnishings or carpets for the residence un-
til after 1960, which was after I. S. Ingram retired. During the time the
Ingrams lived in the house, there were Persian rugs in each of the adjoining
rooms, living room, dining room and library.

Until some years after 1924, the house was heated by coal fire places
located in almost each room of the house. The stove in the kitchen was an
iron wood burner. When they became fairly common, gas floor furnaces and
gas radiants were installed in the fire places.

From about 1914 to 1933, the front porch had flower boxes hanging out-
side the banisters and rose trellises were in front of and to the side of
the porch. This was the style at that time. Mrs. Ingram kept the porch

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boxes planted with flowers. A garage was located some distance from the
house in the back yard off to the side. A tennis court was within 50
feet of the house. From about 1933 to 1960 a long row of lilacs lined
the side of the drive and partly screened the house from Melson Hall.
Mrs. Ingram liked to garden and gradually through the years the house be-
came completely surrounded by all kinds of flowering shrubs and flowers.
When Mrs. Ingram moved into the house, pictures indicate that the exterior
looked bare. By 1955 at the time of her untimely death, the house was
nestled in a lush and exuberant garden containing all kinds of flowering
shrubs and flowers. Unfortunately nothing of this large and beautiful
garden remains because it was all cleared av/ay to make way for Cobb Hall.
Mrs. Ingram was very fond of camel ias and many plants were in her garden.
She paid for the plants herself and the garden was a privately maintained
garden rather than being maintained by the college. From the time Mr.
Johnny Shackelford joined the staff as a youngster of 16 or 17, he was
trained by Mrs. Ingram and probably acquired his skill and information about
plants and shrubs from her. He was given considerable recognition by West
Georgia College at the time of his tragic death due to lung cancer.

Fate is often unpredictable. In the early 50 's, Judge George P.
Munro, Mrs. Ingram's aging father, and, at an earlier date. Chairman of the
Board of Trustees that selected Carroll ton as the site of the A a M,
needed loving care and he came to Carroll ton to live in the President's
House. In 1945 he had been awarded a Certificate of Merit by West Georgia
College in recoanition of loyal and devoted service on behalf of youth
and education and as a founder of West Georgia College, This tribute was
signed by Marion Smith, Chairman, Board of Regents of the University System
of Georgia, Steadman V. Sanford, Chancellor, and I. S. Ingram, President.
Judge Munro lived to be 86 years old and it was an unusual turn of fate
that for a time he was a resident of the President's House. Shortly after
Judge Munro 's death, Mrs. Anna Merritt Munro, Mrs. Ingram's mother, came
to live with her daughter. She was a resident of the house until her
death in 1953. Both of Mrs. Ingram's parents lived to be 86 years old and
both were elderly when they lived in the house.

During the same year that Judge Munro was awarded a Certificate of
Merit, Mrs. Martha Munro Ingram, in 1945 was also honored. It read, "In
recognition of loyal and devoted service on behalf of youth and education
and as a founder of West Georgia College." As stated earlier, before
Mrs. Ingram was a member of the faculty of the ASM School. She had
also served as acting Principal on two occasions, for about a two-year
period, 1925-1926, when Mr. Ingram had leave to complete his education and
secure his Master's Degree from Emory University in Atlanta. The title
of his thesis was "The^History and Significance of the A.& M. Schools in
Georgia," accepted and approved, 1933.

In 1956, or during the time that Anne Ingram was again living in the
house, the house almost suffered a disasterous fire, In the early 1950' s
a corner of the back porch was made into a small room and a floor furnace
was installed. In 1955, Anne Ingram was working in Hanau Germany but she
resigned her job and came home to join her father in looking after her
mother when she became ill, Anne Ingram lived in the house from 1955

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until 1958 when she left to earn her doctorate from Teacher s College,
Columbia University. During this period that she was living in Carrollton,
she and her father had a Siamese kitten who was kept, at night, in the room
described. One night Anne was reading very late and suddenly realized that
she smelled smoke. It had found its way up the stairs to her second floor
bedroom She went downstairs and found the small room in flames leaping
several feet high. She called her father and they were in time to put out
the fire In trying to determine how the fire started, Anne remembered
having seen the kitten with a small plaited rug in his teeth, dragging it
over the floor furnace and then curling up on top of the rug portion that
was over the furnace and going to sleep. That solution e><Dlained how the
rug had gotten over the floor furnace and it was this rug that had caught
on fire. That night it was probably colder than usual and the floor furnace
was hot enough to ignite the rug on which the kitten slept after he had
dragged it onto the furnace. Sometimes insomnia can be a blessing, because
if she had not been reading unusually late that night, there might not be
an "Alumni House."

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THE BONNER HOUSE

The 1940 West Georgia College Chieftain presented the following history of
the Bonner House.*

Jane Thompson was the editor-in-chief

"Lot No 99 Land District No. 10." These numbers were drawn by
Lawrence Richardson of Columbus County in the land lottery of ^825 who
received title to aporoximately 200 acres of land "somewhere west of the
Chattahoochee River!" afterwards Carroll County. More than a century later
on this same lot of land was established West Georgia College,

Richardson never saw the land which thus came into ^j^ Possession and
to which Governor Gilmer gave him a plot and grant. In f^' t. f ^.^l 00
at public outcry to settle a claim against Richardson. It brought $21 00
or about ten cents an acre. It passed into the hands of William A Walsh,
who, like Richardson, never occupied his land on Lot No. 99 Obadiah
Wriaht a recent immigrant to the frontier county, secured it and made
s :f ciearin fand^im rovement but before the end, of the decade .t was again
sold at the fall of the sheriff's hammer. The price of cotton had jumped
from a low of nine cents a pound in 1830 to seventeen cents ^^ve years later
and this time it brought five hundred dollars. Thomas Bonner from Clarke

untjou h? i-t and immediately engaged Y,, Hendrix to instruct a permant
dwelling house there. This was completed in 1844. This hous^,^^^/^^^ ^'^
others throughout the section which were built by Hendrix, still stands
although it has been moved some hundred yards east of its original location.
It is at the present time (1940) occupied by Dean W. F. Gunn.

* Notes have been added (1978) to identify references made in 1940.

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Bonner held the land until after the Civil War. An old colored man,
"Uncle Abe," born on the olace in 1841 and who lived there for the remainder
of the ante-bellum period, has given us an interesting and vivid discription
of "the old home place" as it looked to him during his boyhood which he
longingly describes as very happy days.

The big house stood then on a little knoll about halfway between the
road and the present site of the old dormitory for women (Adamson Hall).
Twenty yards further back, where the dormitory now stands, was the kitchen
where the house servants cooked the food and brought it into the dining
room on large trays. A commissary room joined the kitchen and a smoke-
house stood not far away. Across the road in front of the dwelling were
the barns, the gin house and a cotton press. The slave quarters were
strung along the ridge from the rear of the kitchen to the present site of
the Academic Building, (no longer standing). The burying ground for the
slaves was the area now occupied by the men's dormitory (Mel son Hall).
One single exoanse of woodland reached from this spot almost to the store
houses in Carroll ton. A brandy distillery was operated on the little branch
which ran from a spring house just off the golf course (this course ran along
the Bowdon Highway) near the college library (Sanford Hall). Beyond, all
the distance to the Little Tallapoosa River, was known as the "Deer Stand,"

The red land west of the residence grew cotton abundantly. Cotton
called for more slaves, and as the years passed, more land and more slaves.
The master of the plantation became a Wig in politics.

The presidential election of Lincoln in 18 60 found "Uncle Abe" a young
man of nineteen. One of his master's sons to whom he was fondly attached
was mortally wounded in a drinking brawl, stabbed by a brother of the girl
he was engaged to marry. For six months before his death Abe nursed him in
the little room with a lean-to roof on the west side of the house, The
sorrow of his young master's passing had not abated when two more of the boys
near Abe's own age, marched off with a company of volunteers to the tune of
Jim Patrick's flute.

The Methodist churchyard in the Tallapoosa comm.unity two miles west
of the college was then the mustering ground for the local militia. The
name, "Old Camp," still remains. There was no railroad in Carrollton then.
The county's total population barely exceeded the present population of
Carrollton. At Newnan the departing soldiers boarded the train. Jim
Patrick was playing "My Darling Nellie Gray," and the women were weeping.

In 1863, Federal calvary under Brigadier General John T. Croxton passed
along the road which now fronts the campus. Some of their foragers raided
the smoke house and barns of Abe's master, taking hams, shoulders, milk,
eggs, flour, corn and hay. They did not burn anything and they did not
molest the women, according to "Uncle Abe's" story. "And they were good
enough to leave all the middlin meat,"

Peace came, followed by reconstruction and economic and social adjust-
ments. There was again much sorrow when Abe's white folks left in 1866

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for new land in Alabama and new opportunities. Abe's freedom became the
cropper's thraldom as he severed his connections with the old home place
on Lot Ninety-Nine.

schoo on the pre ent campus where the outline of a track for horse racing
n a la g grand stand can still be seen. .ny Parents of e Pre^en
student body saw here their first aeroplane-enclosed in a tent, for a price
of twenty-five cents admission,

America's entry into the World War in 1917 brought sadness to the
campus "mL students, alu.ni and faculty joined the army^ ZTjr
military training was part of the curriculum. When peace came there were
gold stars in the school's service flag.

The A & M School survived the "boll -weevil depression" of "^O f f ^^^^
time T S I naram became its head. When farm on ces collapsed in the late
n niteen ih "ties and consolidated high schools began to spring up every-
wherf over aooinq the work of the A & M School, there was a dire need for
a revis?on of organization and objectives. The newly-created Board of
ReqenistSok over the deeds to the property in 1932 and during f^ ^0""-
inavear a college of junior rank opened its doors to approximately 220

dfn : %he lo^^tion'of this youngest institution of the niversiy
System of Georgia was in the geographic center f t^^i'f*^ -fhe present
kn^:^^ ;Sr"t^:^::srp^rf L^cl^da^t^ Tttll ]^s %; JSla^^" eers
fh le^Vi^ rpi^ee^rl^f rt^inXpe^ /drttr ber

culturally, ana econumiL y ^ national recognition and some last-

traimng. In this it has l^eceivea some has been an important
;"a?torrare??ort 't'achieve iU obfectives, through cooperation with the
Chancellor and the Board of Regents.

Lot Number 99 still fills its place in thesocif,,fSs"of lusty''' '
re:trr--re^trf:rrrs!'roLMrirrne:f^;^ffor::S^r^e^ucrtii::Arontiers

of the South.

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APPENDIX

THE FIRST ANNUAL ANNOUNCEMENT
A & M SCHOOL
1907

THE PREMIER
1923

THE AGGIES

1928 - 29

lir iFxriit Annual Annnnnrrm^nt

lit* tbp

Agrtrnltural unh

uf tllP

iFnurth (Eongr^asinnal Statnrl.

(Harrollton, (gporgta. iluly 25tl|, ISnr.

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"Fortune often takes Ikm Mibjects tmrn tin- plow-
share the carpenter's bench, and the ...ni!; but she sel-
dom reaches her hand over a p^cUei kMKe and takes a
dude out of a hammock. "-VV At. McKlNl.LY.

"Let us teach our children not simpK to read and to
loaf, but to think and to act."-HOKK Smith.

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Agrirultural auiJ iflrrhaiural Srluuil.

iifitrirt Inarft nf Sfturalinu.

HON. (iEOFUJE p. MrNRO, - - Cluiirmiin.

Biiena Vista, Marion.
HON. T. M. ZELLARS, - - Secretary.

(Jrantville, Coweta.
Carroll County HON. J. A. MURRAH, Carrollton, Ga.
Heard County HON. J. B. SANDERS, Corinth. CJa.
Troup County- DR. H. H. LANE, :\[ountville, Ga.
Meriwether County HON. J. R. LEAVELL, Woodbury, CJa.
Harris County HON. T. L. THOMASON, Chipley, Ga.
Talbot County HON. T. H. PERSONS, Talbotton, Ga.
Muscogee County HON. G. GUNBY JORDAN, Columbus, Cia.
Chattahoochee County-HON. W. I. VAN HORN, Ochil]ee,C;a.

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Aijricultural au^ ilrrhaniral ^rliiuil.

iParuUu.

J. II. MELSOxX,
Principal.

J. C. BRITTAIN,

AcJHU;UI.T(!liF, A.NP CuKMISTIiV.

G. G. DANIEL,

Manual Traininu and MA'riiKM.vric

MRS. J. C BRITTAIN,

EN<iLlSH AND HISTOUV.

Domestic Siknck.

(To be supplied.)

M.VTRON.
(To be supplied.)

iHuimhnx.

WiNTKR TKR.M, Monday, .January 0, to Friday, March 27, '08.
Si'iuNii Tkkm, Monday. xMarch 30,to WVdntsdav. 'May 27, 'US.
Fall Tkrm, Wednesday, Sept. ;J, to Wednesday, Dee. 23, '08.

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iCuratuni nf ^rluuil

The Agricultural and Mechanical Schot")! of the 4th Oin-
gression.'il District is beautifully situated one mile from the
city of Carroll ton. Plan ted on a hij^h ridge, sixty feet
above the surrounding oonntry, buoyed l>y an inyiKoratint;
climate, ^wt'pt by cool fresh breezes and bles;sed with liealth
giving free intone water, the location is ideal for the con-
<iuciv(.'ness of physical vigor and mental development- This
.school blends in i)eantiful harmony, tiie advantage-s of the
city ami country .school. It is in access to the literary, musi-
cal, sdcial and religious attractions of CarroUton a city noted
fot its hospitality, culture and refinement, while it is situ-
ated far enough from town to be exempt from artificial re-
straints, temptations and frivolus di.ssipations. This loca-
tion" will alTord that rest, refreshment, seclusion, mental and
physical exercise, so conducive to study, and to the devel-
opment of mind, body, and character of boys and girls.

Tlie school has ;i farm of 277 acres of fertile soil, suita!)le
for the ^M'owth of iiiniost every product grown in the state.
The buildings, surrounded by native growth of hickory,
oak, dog-wi)od, pine and walnut, will, when completed,
consist of two dormitories with a capacity of 16U pupils; an
acatleinic buihiing with large recitation rooms, laboratory
and d(Mnestic science departmimt; a dining and cooking
liuilding. and a mechanical shop. The buildings will be
eotnmotlious and substantial, fitted with electric lights and
city water, and will be characterized i)y beauty and comfort.

Tbe l< acliers will board with the pupils in thr buildings,
will (Mignge with them in their sports and duties, constantly
exercising a tender and faithful watch-care, and at the same
time will insist up ii a system of seif-goverinnent, stimulat-

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AgriruUwal ani lfiprl|aJitrai ^l?aul.

ing each pupil to think for himself.

ulljp Jfarultg.

The teachers have been selected with thf idea of com-
petency and fitness.

Prof, J. H. Melson is a successful teacher, a splendid
governor of youth and a good organizer. He will be princi-
pal of the school, assisting and working when and where
eyer needed.

Prof. J. C. Brittain is a graduate of the Ohio Univer-
sity, has been in the employ of U. S. government for
three years as soil expert. He is a theoretical and praciieal
chemist and agriculturist, also understands dairying and
surveying.

Prof. G. G. Daniel is an expert technological man, a
good mathematician and a scientific farmer.

Mrs. J. C. Brittian who will teach English and History
has had several years experience teaching in the schools of
Washington, D. C. She is a lady of culture and refine-
ment.

An up-to-date domestic science teacher will l>e em-
ployed.

^piif ral Snfnrmatuin-

Sixty per cent of the course of ^tudy will he agricultu-
ral studies and practice work for the hoys, and domestic
science and duties for the girls. The remaining forty per
cent will be high school work. The course of study will em-
brace four years, during which time pupils will be prepared
for college, or given such knowledge, along practical hues as
will fit them for competing with a scientific and educational

world.

Age limits from 13 to 21, and special ;irrangeui.Mit.s
may be. made for older pupils. Eaci, hoarding pnpii will

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Ayriniltitral awh iHrdjautral StIjdoI

bo ro(iuin'il lu dcpowit with the school authorities ten
(SIO.OO) dollars oil his or her entraiur to the school, and
should this atiiniint more than cover the actual cost of board
and laundry, tlie remainder will be refunded.

Kach lioarding pupil will deposit at the beginning of
each succcedint; month what ever the authoritie-s find to be the
actual cost of board and laundry. At the end of the year,
half the products will be sold, and each pupil will be paid his
or her prorata part of proceeds, and also paid for any extra
work done daring the scliolastio year, at sucfi prices as the
authorities may tix for such work. l*"acli pupil will be r^-
quired to do at lea^l one and one half hours manual labor
per (1.1 y.

No luilioii will be charged, tlic only expense being thr-
actual cost of board, hunxiry and sciiool b-ooks.

The school will supply a training in those !)ranclies of
high schocil work which naturally supplement the leading
l)ranchca of agricultural and domestic knowledge. Tlu'
work will b(> in a practical form so far as possible. The
field, lab ratory and workshop will be utilized to their full-
est extent. The aim will be to make the methods direct and
practical in order to give the student a snfliciej)t knowledge
of the subjects for the ordinary uses of farm life.

It will 111' the aim of the s('lu>ol to make g(M)d farmers,
good eiti/.eiis and go<d housekeepers. We hope to broaden
the interests and quicken the powers of cbservation, so that
the farmer, in the competitio.i and struggles of his profes-
sion, may olitain results which compare favorably with the
results obtained in other vocations on a similar footing. The
attractive f(>atures of the farm home and the farm life will
be brought out and developed; the great possibilities of eni-
ploving all of the highest energies and talents in the success-
ful pursuit of this occupation will be shown to the students.

The boys an<l girls of the 4th Congressional District are
cordially invited to enter the A. & M. i^chool. They are
urged to come with the intention of earnest and conscien-
tious work thro\ighout th(> entire course.

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(EmtIiinBpJi i^latpintnt at' U^^nlatitif (Haur&t uf ^tuiJy
for 4tl? Siatrtrt Agrtrullural ^t^aai.

Thp work \<^ nrrangcd liy terms as well as years so thai
a young farmer may enter at tlie time when the partieular
subjects desired are being caught, and st: y as long as he may
wish. The principal will allow such academic work for
these special students as will meei their. needs, allownig ;i8
iTiuch time as deemed necessary for the intensive work in
agricultural su beets selected. In this way thk siuooi, .\ni)

CURRICUl.UM CAN BK MADE TO FIT THE BoY DESUilNC THnEE.
MONTHS, ONE YEAR OB KOUR YEARS. No IKNE WILL BE ALLOWED
TO ENTER WHO DOES NOT TAKE THE KEiiUIHED PRACTICAL WtmiC.
If only LITERARY WORK IS DESIRED, THEY SHOULD <;0 ELSE-
WHERE.

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The premier
1923

The essence of the quality of life for the students on campus is
captured in the 1923 yearbook, Th6 Premier , volumn one, published as
the first issue by the students of the junior department of the Fourth
District, A & M, There were various societies such as. The Hawthorne
Society, the Ciceronian Society and the A & M Debating Club. Members
that year who debated Carroll ton High School were Hoyt McClendon, Fred
Simonton, Zelma Barr and Bessie Cline. The Hawthorne and Ciceronian
Societies "were organized for the purpose of broadening the minds of the
students and of teaching them to be at ease when addressing a crowd of
people. Each society has about the same number of members. Every year
the old students race to get the new students to join their society."
Each society had about fifty members and each society met once a week on
Saturday evenings and had an interesting program. About every six weeks,
the two societies held a joint meeting. The A & M had active religious
groups, the Sunday School, YMCA and YWCA.

Athletic participation was orovided through football, basketball
and baseball teams. The football team was composed of Choice, Pike,
Pritchett, Williamson, Walls, Adamson, Combs, Murphy, James, O'Neal,
Hightower, Arnett, Hays and Pull en. The basketball team members were
Phillips, Allen, O'Neal, Pike, Arnett, Neill, Choice, Pritchett, Peeler,
and Smith. In writing about the athletic program, the staff commented:

"Our Athletic Association now consists of the entire male
student body whose spirit in upholding the teams is a great
help to the boys in the field. The girls, too, encourage
the players... Their presence causes each boy to fight a hard-
er and cleaner game. Our motto is "win fairly," and we have
never been known to win a game in any way save hard playing
and determination. We believe to play hard and lose is better
than to play easy and win."

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j^^c !Premierj

The Shidc^nls Creed

1 svill 1'1"1 '"" "' '^'-^' '''' '''" '''''"''" ''^" '""'^'
n-,n wasir.l hum-, aiul wntf mm it ihr >.Kvr>. that
lonic^ ir"iii liiiK' wfll -I't'iit.

1 u,!l k.T,. hu-, p.KM- .l.-.m a, Hi 1,11 .1 uilh llu
nH,H-.l ul kiu'V\lr'l:-^<' :-;aini-.l.

1 uall MX niv eve- o.i the .^nal ul ins amhilmn^
;,n.l hdlil niv haiiii tu il- task.

1 will work hanl. hnj.c h:-h. an.i livr uy U> th^
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BOARD. OF TRUSTEES

.\iRS. 1;I':TTV CnWW. ravmUum

(.'.\RR()[.r. C(il'\T\

IKJX. T. M. ZELI.ARS. (iraiitville
C()\vi:t.\ Co I 'n TV

HON. J. WILSOX PARKER. Fnirhurn
C.AArrr.ELL County

.\(RS. A. 1^. McLARTY, Dou.-iasville

DnrcL.AS Coi'N'TV

IIO.V. T().\[ WISPfJM, Chiplev
Harki.-^ Cocn't\

HON. C). A. MOORE. Texa-s
Hi-,.\Rn Cotw'Tv

jCDCE II. H. RE\'ILL. (;rcenville
.Mi'.RiwicTiiER C~(n^T^

IK )\'. T. 11. I'ER.SOWS. Tnl!,(.tt.>n

Tol.i'.OT ("OCXTY

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Fourth District
Agricultural & Mechanical School

A Co-educational School of Excellent Merit

COURSES OFFERED

Domestic Science

(a) Cooking

(b) Sewing

(c) Dress-making

(d) Millinery

(e) Home-making etc

Agriculture

Literary

(a) English

(b) History

(c) Mathematics

(d) Science

Music

(a) Soils

(b) Fertilizers

(c) Horticulture

(d) Animal Husbandry

(e) Dairying

(f) Farm Mechanics

Expression

For further information write to Irvine S. Ingram. Prin-
cipal, Genola, Ga.

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Senior Class Roll

Fdmond Arnett
Lonnie !>. Arnett
I )ester 1 '.arker
Zelma Hair
William Choice
( ofi! Li)iiil)s
i'>e^sie dine
Addie Lee Daniel
Joseph Fowler
William I'ry
( )lin (Tarrett
Josei)hine ( ilenn
J el) I larris
I'lorie i leiirv
Robert i Intchinson

I loyt .McCIendon
Irene Muqihy
Lentoii ^^llrphy
Oiarles Neill
I.(i\ic ' >'.\eal
Sanders 1 ike
Joe Perry
Sarah Petty
Huell Pritchett
rUake Pnllen
Fred Simonton
KImer Storv
P. -M. Turner
\\ illiam W'eslev
Paul Williamson

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Schooi Oilcndcr

\i,^- J, ( iponini,' |)a\----.\Iunini t;avc talks.
\i,o- _>-_-.\|r. Wdodall j^ave sluilcnts a wfincr rori-^t.
Sept. _> The .L;ii-1> entertained the hoys at a yunw party.
Sept. K) '1 lie l>"\s ,L;ave a yAXW to the .^n-ls.
Sept. _':; iMiotlial! ;^anie at La(iran!;e.
( )^.f -_Mi-. Mandexille entertained Juniin-> at hi> camp.

( )^.t. ij Tlie Senior- were entertained at .\Iande\die Camp.

( )et. , :;_K;dph Tm-ner and .Myrti> ( iarrett enteriame.l the Seniors.
( )et ^1 Hallowe'en- a haiKpiet was oiven at the diinn,.^ hall where
everyone eame maske.l. Later the Seniors -'ave a i)lay ni
tlu' anditorinni, followed hv a party.
X,,v. 17 l'.\er\l!ody went to Xewnan to see the ,^anie hetween A. & M.

and .Xewnan.
X,,v. 23 Last I'oothall j;-ame of the season.
X,,v. jijriianks.^i vino the cieen-nians entertained the Hawthornes

with a play and iiarty.
Dee. ifi ddie Hawthornes nivited the (ieeronia.n^ to a candy indhn.'^^

Dee. 20 The >tndent> went to a t'liristma-. Tree in the au<htorinm.

Dee. _'i The stn<lents lea\e lor home tii >i.end the ( hri-^tma^ holi.la\-^.

Ian. 4 .Si)rini; term ojiened.

1^.^,^ p> Senior ( iirls ^-o into Practice Home.

]-i]T 1- l-irsl haskelhall ^ame of the season.

Pel). n;)--L'elehrated (ieor^-ia Day. Seniors were in chari^e.

|.el,. 11 Seniors .l;(i out of Practice Ih>me.

.Mar. 10 i'art\- for everyhody.

.Mar. 2;^ Preliminary Dehate .\. & M. vs. Xewnan at A. 6c .M.

.\. ^; .M. \s. farrollton at C'arrollton.
.Mar. 24 Weiner Roast at 1 lavs' .Mill j^iven l>y t iceroiiians
.Mar. 2^^ Pa-el )all .^anie with .Xewnan 1 li,t;h.
Mar. 21), V' \^ ''"^'"^ 1''*'^^' ^<-'i''<-'^ "f' .U'inies with (.'axe Sprini^s and Ced-

artown.
\|,ril i\ Mrs. Mn.o-hes entertained for Seniors.
.\])ril 10 Premier went to jiress.
April 1,^ Addle Lee Daniel invited Senior ( Ta-s to her home for an

evening.
.Mav .X C'la>s Day I^xercises.
M a\' <) Senior I 'la\'.
.Mav 10 ( omiuencement l'",xercises.

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J'.acked Iiy the stutlent Ihi(1\' and faculty, athletics at A. (!t M. are
j.articipated in tu a i^reat extent. ( )nr teams (if I'ncithall. P.askethall.
I'>a.sei)all, and Track have been very succes.siul this year. This wa.s ac-
coniph'shed hv hard work, ijdod coachini;, and a strict observance of
trainin_q- rnles. .Mthongh we did not win all the t^ames we played, we
jiiit ii|) a hard fi.c^ht.

We are slad to say that >oine of tlie athletes who once adorned our
field are now pL'tyinj^ on the varsity of some of our well known col-
Ici^es. ( hir Athletic Association now consists of the entire male stu-
dent body, wlidsc spirit in uplioldin<,' the teams is a c^reat help to the
lH)ys on the field. The twirls, too. encoura^'e the i)layers, and attend all
the j^ames that are in a reasonable distance. Their presence causes
each boy to fi<;ht a harder and a cleaner qame. ( )ur motto is '"Win
I'airly." and we ha\e never been known to win a q'ame in anv wav save
hard playing- and determination. We believe that to ])lav hard and lose
is belter than to play easv and win.

In our contests, we have had as opponents some of the best High
and I're]) .Schools in the state. We gladly, but not boastfully, report that
we have won over most of them, especially- in i)asel)all. We attribute
this year's success in athletic activities to our trtistworthy and compe-
tent coach, "rnc'e limmv" Woodall.

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IVi our feilii\v->ulTciX'rs in lalxirs and hardship-, in our oo !al)orc'rs
in lii^li and nii-'Ux- t;i~l> i>l' >nr\i\in,n" tln'oui^h ^aid trial--; to Mur per-
srrulois : \\\-. i!ic Srnior C las> ol' tlif l-'ourlli l)i'-'vnt \, X.' \l. ScIkhi!
do lirrclu. with (an low. u;fnc'r(isiiy. and (.'-tc'cni. addrL-^> our la^t wdl
and If^tanu'iit.

Item I. To inir Alma Mater, we liei|neatli nnr (\vv\> and >nni're
lii\e in apja t'eiatii n' of the ideaK >he imi'lanled in tmr lives.

lu-in J. I'm all the coniinL^ --eniurs we liec|nealh the imlit to have
a .-enior talile at the dinini^' hall.

Item :;. Tm the !'acnlt\ we lea\e carhon eopies ol' all examina-
tions, test'- written lesions. e.\erei.-e.s and rexievvs whiili we have uu-
deri;one this meniorahK' \ear.

Airnrid'. II.

Iloni I. Tlu' ."-M-uiur ( iirls lei|ueath to all the cumins^" Seinor ( lirl.s
tl.eir v.'iinderfni --KiJl aec|uired in the "'I'ractiee Nome." also their ahil-
itv III draft patlerns.

Item .'. Ill die faithlnl and sjiiriled Ircshmen, \vi' lea\'e mir liest
wishes fur a l<iiis.; aiul iia]i;>\ hi^h seliooi earecr.

Item _;. < )tit <if the humaneness of iiur hearts, we leave to the
so|>ii(imores mir aei)uisition of ei\iii/,ation and all the attributes there-
<.f. such as inlt'll'L;eni-e, wit, huuun", and eommun sense.

Item 4. AIoiil; \\ath otii' ih^iiitx' and seriousness of nurpose we
<'istrihnti,' eonalh' anii-rii;' the juniors the lolli iwiiil; useless articles;

1. All of iiur outlines.

2. .\II ol uur icssdu ])lans.
\. All of nur |)ri\ ilei^es.

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Item I. W'iliiaui ( hoice leaves to ( )lin Arnert the cliewinq- <,n:m
which he left on a dok in die laliMraiurw whiU' spcnilmi; an idle periotl
there.

Item _'. I.iivic ( J'.Veal wills to "".S.-dN " I'.raimon a few inches nf
Ins lieiLdit.

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Item ^. (."ceil ToTiih^ leave- l<) Kalie Sniitli lier <|uiet ways f(ir
K'atie r.eeds -.ulxlninif.

Item 4. 1(1 l\.i'\ lla\es. \\ illfaiii Wesley leave-> lii> wonderful
L^ift for mnsie.

Item 5. I'.e.-sie C'line !)C(|ueatlis to [.ena McKinle\- her curiosity
and a verv >niall uart of lier di^-nity.

Item f>. |o ( der.n ,^i\es ti> \ ena look her reTuarkalile ahdity to
-e\v and to write menus.

Item 7. I'ud I'ike and l.enton .\luri)hy leave to N'eal Tolhert and
to ( iuv Camp their most honorahle position of firini^ the boiler. Their
onh- re<|ue>t is to make the hoiler hotter in warm weather tiian in eold.

Item S. Sarah Petty wiIlinL;ly l)e(|ueaths to I'.lanehe Walker her
lovinjj^ and winning,' wavs, and with the consent of her cla>s. her ravc.i
curls.

Item I). To ('la\ion I'nderwood. Joseph i'dwler lie^lows his eu-
tertainini;' and siumy ilisposition.

Item 10. i'.lake I'ullen leaves to Jim T. his admiration for all Lrirls.

Iteni II. A >enior last year left to L. M. Turner his i)Iace at the
l.eater and L. M. has used it. .\'ow he hands it down to Charlie
Walls along with the rij^ht to he late as often as he pleases.

Item 12. i ioyt Mc("lendon lea\es to I-'dhert Wdliamxm his ahil-
it\' to resort to his hook d.nrinm' exams.

Item i_^. Irene .\iur] h\- leaves to Monte Tolhert her position as
President of Mouse v'oinu-il.

hem 14. i.onnie I'.. Arnett leaves to David D.avidson his pos'itioii
as hell -ringer, -aiil position to he retained as kmij as l)avid rememher-
t>) s^ive loui.j' recesses.

Item 15. William Try lea\es to Weyman Strickland the ri^ht to
say. "I don't know"' in hist('rv class.

Item Ui. Cliarlie \eill and Olin ( larrett hequeath to Willie L'ook
and Men Avery their as|)ir;uion to y-rovv in stature.

Item 17. 'To ( ic()rc,'c Phillips, i!ud Pike unwilhni;l\ leases lus sat-
isfactorv hair-curlers. Me will fmd then\ under tlu' I'adiator m Pike's
room, lor Pike was very hashful ahout displayiui;- them.

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Item iS, Td ( ). 1). Adanisdti. I'nul Williani^du wills his .ibilily
III teach Senior (ieDiiu'try.

Item ii;. 1 'ester Hai-ker leaves iier powers as a vamp to C'hri.s-
tiiie lames provided that ( hris will urnarantee to ,i;ive ii]) the leq'acy
i l" she Ljets cajt^^ht u]) with, as Desier was.

Item -'(). To Adell Nmt. Zelma I'.arr leaves her ahility as an ac-
fie>s, and to M'aidee lamp, her d,i-o|l way ol' talkint:;'.

Item _M. To [ larvev Arnctt. lUiell Pritohett leaves his proi)ensity
for ar.Lj'uin!^' with an\ and every one.

Item jj. i*"red Simonton solemnly Ixnineatlis to I'ill jamcs his
]iosition as monitor in the dormitory.

AiriM'/LF. IV. '

Last, lint not least, we d.o appoint as execntioner of this, our last
will and testament, our well-heloved ''riend, "Miss Munro." The hum-
hie drawers of the ahove will and testament reluctantly concede their
hrilliaut ideas, wit, ;md keen sense of huiuor to the will committee of
the ll.ass of i<)_'4.

Done and s\c;ned this Cith day of March. ic>_'_v Sii::-ned and puh-
lished hv the dulv accredited reprcsentati\es of the class, as tlieir last
will and testament in the ])resence of each other.

The Senior (, lass of t<)23
Witnesses Clarice .\i c( "lendon. Jewel McKinley.
Testator Addie 1 .ee namel.

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JOKES

Mr. llrirfic'id: John, yon re sniokint:^.

iohii : I'm not.

.Mr. llatticM: ^'ou've i,M)t a ciirarctle in \our hand.

lohn : Snic I liavt-. Txc i^ot slme^ on in\ ivrl. l>nt I ;n'n't walkiii;.;-.

Mis^ Mnnro- \\ Iiat is a criininal iaw\cT'

l'.l.\kc; A cfiniiual lawvcr i> a (.rurl la\v\ri-.

Icril: Xo. a ci iniir.al law \or is one that ^l);\iaHzc.> in nuirilers.

Ilri^lit I'npih .Miss Mark', who wrote Dicken's (.hristntas L'arol?

.Miss .Mtnn-o: (."larioe. fan yon dechne lui;.;:'
(.'larice : .\o. ma'am, I never decline it.

Mins F.ark^: ['nderwoofk what is the hir<;est (h'.'unond known"
I'nderwood : wonld yon eomil the joker?

:(. :|: :;: :.: * * * * -U '^

( iene\a rame in Late to ,t;eometry, an<t the r(*m heiiii;' crowdetl.

(.onid not lind a seat. ( )hn ( larretl rose iiolitel\. and saick 'l\ake my
seat, t icMK'\;i "

( leneva : rki.nik sou, hnt jnst where did \on m-t n|) from."

y\r. lni;rant : lames, what do yon know of the ".\.^e ot Mh'zaheth."
Hill: .Siie'il he sevt'.iteen next Tnesclay.

'i'eaelier: Children, how old would a person he who was horn iit
iM-eshman I'lass i in ehonis ) Man or woman?'

;^ :{; ;;s ;'rC ;{! '-ii '\- :I: ^: :):

Irene: 'S\:\v 1 i^o to ride with niv hrother?'

.Miss .Mitehell ((iiiickh) .\nd how loni,^ have vovi known him?

Irene: .Xhont two weeks.

:!; ;(; :|; :[; * * ij: ;|; * :!;

Car! : I wr^h I had eome here a weel^ as;ii.
Miss llaiisoii; ^'on're very l'latterin,i;' to m\- cookiiv^'.
Carl: I don't know ahont that. What i mean is that I should have
preferred to eai this roast then instead of now.

.Mr. ln<j;ram: Ami how are our inenhalors L.;ettin:4" ;donii' now'
Mr. Hatfield: I don't know we'\e had them for two weeks now

.,n<l not one

the tour lias l;nd an (.<'

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>=: Qsa ,i-r^

5%c I^remierj

Senior Poem
LExWING SCHOOL

( Iloyt M cCIciuloii )

l'"r(.'e from tnil and free from studv.
We. the cla.s> of iwentv-three,
1 .ea\f oil] A. iX; M . Iichiml us.
< ilad from lessons to he free,

I'.ut we ]eave onr dear instructors.
With a sail yet thankful heart
|-"or the kindness they have >ho\vu us
And the jov the\- did impart.

And to the siiciH'cdin^' classes.
We. the ."st'iiiois. leave advicr:
That they stud\' with a \i^or:
'i hat tliev ti-eat their teacliers nice.

1 rust the hardships that are many.
( )nl\- in a smiling way.
.\nd we're sure that vou will pas^ them.
W itii the ease and joy of play.

I'Or manv _\ears we've stru.ir.i^led, ,
hrom the hottom we ha\'C come
\'ct the future's to he climaxed,
.\la\- it end in jov and inn.

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7^0 :PrgjTi/erjF^ >^"'""'''''''''''^^

An Apprcc.Hitln

n

If tluSe ]);i;j:"es havf i;iven yon pleasurt',
[ f utir ctYorts thmnj^h cliildi^h and pdur

Mav have adiled a Kit to iife'.s .i^aiety,
Tlifn we a.sk nt' tlieiii nothino; more.

.\ii(l we have ijained wliat we wi>Iie(l f'T.

I he success is not ours aione
Kind assistance has overcome trouhles.

'I'liou^h difficult paths we've l)een shown.

!"or Miss [carle's jrreat help when sore neede<
We our "gratitude cannot express,

I'"or her helpful advice and her patience
Sincerelv our thanks we express.

The Annual

he readers ^et the pleasure.

The writers Lret the fame,
he puhlishers ^et the money.

.\nd the editors f(et the hlame.

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The Aggies

By the year 1929, the yearbooks were called
The Aggies . The faculty had grown, the class
poet continued to hold a prominent position, the
Glee Club, Hawthorne Society and Ciceronian
Society flourished. The students retained their
wonderful sense of humor as the class "Jokes"
indicate. The Aggie staff continued a tradition
of excellence in publishing yearly The Aggies .

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THE AGGIES

1928-1929

VOLUME II

Published by

THE SENIOR CLASS OF

THE FCUIRTH DISTRICT A. & M. SCHCX^L

CARROLLTON. GA.

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'^* THE AGGIES, NINETEEN TWENTY-NINE ^^>*

3t^

Faculty

[. S. lX(il^\M History

I'liivcrsity of (ieurgia; I'ealxxly C'olleije

Ll'TIII'.R KARMOX /,-r;V///////r

I'nivor.sity of ( icorii'i.'i.

I'1>:A.\I\ DI'-WIS Mumujrr I'oiillrY /'hint

[ nivcrsity of < ieoi'i^ia.

CLARA XOIJ'X I'.nijlisli

Atliens I'ollei^e : I'niversity of Alaliania.

SARA 1'1':T r\' nomrstic Sricner

I nivcrsitv of ( it'oi^ia.

j. C. 1.L'CK^ ]liillii-iii(ilirs. Director of Ithlrtirs

I 'nivt.T>it\' of * leorj^ia.

j. G !'.( )XXI''R Sririirr. Sliof^ ami I ^iscif^linarian

L'ni\tM"Mt\' of < ioori,'ia ; l"ni\tM>iry oi Texas.

(i()RI)()X .\I\1)|)()X i-riciilturr

lULIA l'.RISC'( )l'". Couinirnial Ci)iirsc

Atlanta r.usiness (."ollci^e : IV-ahody C ollet^e. '

AIRS. j< )i': A. A^C ( K'K ^Iiisic

I .a< irant^e College

ZRLAi A I'.ARR Scrrrtary

Kovvdon Co11c.il;c

MRS. M \T'l~ih: l'XI)F.R\\'( n)[) Matron l>nini- Hull

Wvs. i;cl)ecTa llark \liitro>i

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Class Poem

\ii(.-li(M-f(l 111 harlnir fur four Unvji, year>.

Wc'vi.' tiiilcil with mast and sail.
Am! iKiw with niiii^^lcd jov ami tfar,..

W ( watch ihr n^iiis^ ,L;aU'
That hears our hark to lands afar,

< )\'r waUM-s strani^r and new;
And as wo harhor har,

\\ c ^1 t-ak this last adieu.

hull well \vt' lovt' this nt-aceful short-,

h'or vou oiH" lit'arts will pine,
I'.ut duty calls us to do more;

To dare the splashin.i^ hrine.
\'et shall wf curry our way

( ilad nieniories ai you.
As we iii.< iovth on that hriij;^ht day

We'll s-iy. farewell, adieu!

( )ur crew has heen a crew ol joy,

I'.ach 'oul has <lone its part,
And as we ^houi tin.' last ahoy,

( )h, ."shi]), he readv to depart.
I'or thou.Ljh we leave otu' ('arroliton homes

.*^weet memories ever new.
In far off countries where we roam,

W ill call to \on, \dien !

( 'h. .'>hip, heri e waves ma\' drench th\' >ides,

I ire\' siorm clouds ho\er round,
l!eneath dark shadows hid xou i^lnle,

I nlii _\ou ve pierce(l the sound.
\n\\y C aptain leads with skillful hand

This rou,L;h and rujL^'.i^ed way.
And he will u;'uide \ou safe to land.
To harhor, one --wei-t daw

.\s dawn nnlolds her radient wins^s,

lake courauje and ,i;o torth,
I'.ach storm oiuridden new streni;th hriin;^

And proven thv spirits worth.
I'.rave heart-- and >tron^, t^lad hearls and I ree

I rue hearts that naught can sever,
I. lie's ,i;lorv waits upon lite's sea.
.^ail nil. (ih, ship, lori'ver.

LILLl \,\ .\lc\\ IK )lNd"l':k. _'.).

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im^ THE AGGIES, NINETEEN TWENTY-NINE

KH)^

OI'I'ICRRS

M ISS CLARA \( )I.F..\' Pirnlnr

.MRS. JOl'. A^^'()cK Icrompanist

col. SAX S1M<:i'm-:.\S Prcsnlmt

JLl.lA XASW < )R T! I\' Sccrctary-Trcasitrcr

Hazel I Itfrrin
Mary I'ullilove
lulia XaMWorthy
lionnie I'eel
I'auline >fcCrary
Clestelle Hii^htdwer
( iladys 1 )enny
lUivenia llryant
l-",aveliiu.' Kitclicns
l>ewey tollett
.Xfarv 1 lelen Land

.mi-:miu-:rs

Christine C'rawftml
Katlirvn Scndder
IJllian McWhurter
I-'annie WDrtham
( iolson Stei)hens
Mr. Maddox
Mr. ( ientry
Robert Stallins^s
I'aul Andrews
I'aul I '.rock
.Manor Cansler

I). ( ). I'.rvant
Russell [ lesterley
I'red Denny
I'enson Kelley
Kin.tj Xichols
1 ~ov]e Caswell
I'Jiott Williams
.\lel\in Richardson
r.eii .\l on fort
.\nios Chambers

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^>(><> THE AGGIES, NINETEEN TVX^ENTY-NINE 'f-p-

^y

r^7

H AW riK )\<\b: S( Kil'.TN'

( Minus: ill Oik Olid W'llow. Mo-r-i'o: "(^;jr(-(/ I lux^'llicnir, . //tvW v.v a Ihn.'lln'mr."
KIXC XK ll< )|.S : /'r,-,v/,/, /

MAk'v iJi':i.i-:,\ LA.xi)

Srrrrij}

II \\\'

MiNS l'>riscne
( liristine < rri\vfi)ri
I'nix' ( liruiiht'rs
.\lar\in C lianihers
Amns l li;iiiilit'rs
I'.arlinc Ixitcht'iis
iMMinic '['(.t'l
( Inilnn Miilliiis
Zflnia Jnhnxin
\larv I k'Icn I ^and

IK JUXI'". S( )i"ll"rA' Ml'.MI'.i'.RS
Mr. Ma.ldox

Jnhnnv I It'atli
I liiwanl Wright
iXirotliv I'.artiiii
Kiti,t( Xu'lidls
I't-nson Kt'll\'
XOtice (arter
Rohert Stalliiii^s
Most' ( ieori^f
( )smer (.'raw ford

\Crl\n I >avi>
Thdiiias Miller
Mi^s I'ettv,
Marv .\l(i(M-c
Xciipic- Mull It ; t
ImM |;r\aiit
Mii/cllf- ( 'aii^olor
I )('v -if ! )(irimL;!i

! )ura I lol:-(;lv

I .era > i -w^
\\\\\.n W'iliia'Ps

87

^p* THE AGGIES, NINETEEN TWENTY-NINE fr^>!v

t!(.l-:K( )X[.\X SOCIKTV

(uinu; I'urplc (iiiil I, old. MdTKi: (Juality ami net (Jiiinihfy.

( ;( )I.S.\X STR IM ll'.XS Prcsiilcut

II 1.1 \ XASW <)U 11 |^ Secretary

88

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^** THE AGGIES, NINETEEN TWENTY-NINE "Wpfr

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We c<litor> iiiriv diij; an<l toii til nur tinc^er tijis nrc sure,
^'el some pnt.r lisli i^ -uro tn >ay. "l saw thai joke hctdrc. '

.Ali Xoleii: .Mnllins. what iliaiit;es do von -co have taken place
!a>t ten \('ars on the niaji ol' i'aii"o|ie .'"

.\inilin>: "'All I >cc is that it has hcen painted ai^aiii.

rite

Mr. I'.onner: "When 1 looked, out ot" the window. 1 was -lad t
ni; niarhies with \
C harles Jones : " I
him pick \ip hi- teeth.

])lavin.i; niarhies with \onr new room mate

Charles hmes: |'lavin,u maihle^ nolhino ! \\ r had a li-ht and 1 wa^

^ee vou

heipiii,:^

"Two iints make a (juart, one (|nart make-; one 'wil

Mis> .\olen : ""U this theme original.'"
joe I'.anks: "Xo I wrote it mvself."

1 ). ( ). : -"A stiulent came to st'hool wilhont an\ ti-oii><'i's on."
I lesterh' : "Aw. i^e lont."
1). I >. : "Sm-e. it was a .uiii"

\\ hv take Iil"e too serionslv ? N'on'll ne\ev L;et oni oi it alive

Triumpii of Woman
"l)oris is j^ettini; a man's wau;es."'
"\ es, I knew >he was married."

.Mar.^aret iMilliioce: "W hatcha keen doin;;'"

I'.oIp: " I akmi; pait in a i;ne-'smL^ conte>t,'

Mari^'aret ; 'I'.iil I ihoiii^hl sun had an csam in .\lalli."

r.oi)': "1 did."

(,'ansler: ",\la\- I ha\e a date witli yoii al the Senior l'art\-.'
h'annie: "Win. \es. when we have the eiiihleenth."
( an.slt'r : "Thank-. I)nt I'll he ,L;one h\- that lime."
I'annie ; ",~sii will I . '

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^^ -^ - .- _.-..- -.- ^.

.^li^^ Karr: \\n\ laii't iiiia-uie' Imw 1 \v<'n-v wlirn xou're a\va\-.
Mr. Ilarnion: "( Hi. mhi ^hinil.ln't dn that. l"ll al\va\> return, yon know."
Mi^s Carr: "Nc^, that's uliat I woitn ahoiil."'

^ - :.;

\ I'lndT |i M (i ill a i-aihnail I larls.

Mil' I ram u as ci iniiii:^ la^i ,
Thi' Iraiii l;"1 I'tl the taih'nad lr;ii'k,
.Vnd Icl fhf Si'uiiir pa^^.

Dill \(iu cNtT lu-ar ahdut the ahsciit minded prot'essnr wlio thoui^lit lie'd left
his walih ai humc and then tcnk it ^nu to see if he hail inne In ijii haek and ,u;ef
il : If \(in didn'l von mivh ask I'ml. ( hanihers.

Miir] h\ : "I'm L,elliii'; .L;ra\ haired fi-nni wdrryin;^'."
ilernne: " I he.i win dn \i<\\ wurrx .'"
.\lui[ih\ : "\ e.-ar.' e I'm i^ellinL; ,uray haired."

Mr. I'.ninier: '(.'m-lis do xou know what tiie l'"loridians crdl Morida."
( nrtis: "I don't know. What is it?"
r.r. I'.onner; " Idoiida."

I'.lliott : "i wish I conld revise tlie alphahet."

k'.arline ; "\\ hy '"

Ivlhotl : Where 1 inuld i.nt l' and 1 elose together."

90

THE AGGIES JANUARY, 1920

JOKES

Teacher: "I believe you missed
my class yesterday."

Girl: "Why, no I didn't in the

least."

*

Warning To Crushes

It is just as well to remember
that old flames are apt to flame

up when they are turned down.

* *

A. & M. Boy: "Have you heard
the story of the wicked flea?"

Mr. Barber: "I don't believe "
so. What is it?"

Boy: "The wicked flee when

no man pursueth."

*

Mose: "Are paint brushes made
from pig's bristles?"

Mr. Maddox: "I believe so,
Mose."

Mose: "Well, what part of a
pig do the pigments come from?"

* *

Miss Nolen: "How did the Isr-
; aelites treat Saul the day he was
made king?"

L. A. : "I don't know, I was sick

in bed that day."

* * *

"Pop, what is a monologue?"

"A monologue is a conversa-
tion between husband and wife."

"I thought that was a dia-
logue."

"No, a dialogue is where TWO

persons are speaking."

*

V.'' -

Teacher: "Tell us something

about the Atlantic and Pacific

oceans, Charlie."

, Charlie: "The Atlantic and

Pacific are not oceans, it Is a Tea

Company."

*

Williams: "And why do you
call me Pilgrim?"

Earline: "Well, every time you
call, you make a little progress."

Bob: "Is your girl a blond?"
Crook: "I don't know. I haven't

been to see her in two weeks."

* *

Hesterly: "A fool and his
money are soon parted?"

Richardson: "Who got yours?"

*

Mozelle: "Edgar, how do you
basketball boys ever get clean?"

Edgar: "Don't be silly. What
do you suppose the .scrub teams
are for?"

m m m

An Old One Worth Retelling

While Firestone, Edison, Ford
and Burroughs were touring, a
light and a tire on the car went
bad. Mr. Ford went into a store
and said to the merchant:

"What kind of lights do you
have?"

"Edison," replied the mer-
chant.

"And tires?"

"Firestone."

"You may be interested to
know that Mr. Edison and 'Mr.
Firestone are out in my car, and
that I am Henry Ford."

As the merchant was putting
on the tire, Mr. Burroughs, who
was well adorned with white
whiskers, leaned out of the car,
and the merchant, looking at him
with a grin, said:

"If you tell me you're Santa
Claus I'll crown you with this
wrench."

A .;. . . ,;;

Visions

Oh, Life's a vei-y frail thing, '

And very swift to pass;
And Love is but a pale thing.

And breakable as glass;
But dreams are very long things

That live when life is past;
And visions very strong things

That conquer love at last.

The English Review,

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THE AGGIES, NINETEEN TWENTY-NINE f->*

The Aggies Staff

R(.)I:KUT S'r.\l.l.l\(iS l-.dil<n--in-Chict

jl'LJ.V XASWOkTir/ Is.uu-lat,- I'.iliinr

\\.\\i(\.\\<V:V l-"i"I LIU )\ IC Ukrrtisin:^ Maiuujcr

\<()\)\'A<'[' S'l" \l.l.l.\(iS S7()/-/ lulitor

l'\<\-:i) \)i:\\\ : /okc fiditor

I'AII. AXDRi'WS Irt luiitor

I'.WWi: WORTH AM J-Achain/c liditor

|H)k()Tin HAkToX luniur h'rpnrirr

ML-:Ri;|-:iM' WALK1-:R Sophumurc Rcportrr

lU \|-;XI\ r.K'VAXT rrrslinnm Prportcr

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THE AGGIES JANUARY, 1929

Governor Roosevelt of

New York A,& M. Speaker

The Trustees of the A. & M.
School at a recent meeting ex-
tended through Judge H. H.
Revill an invitation to Governor
Franklin D. Roosevelt to deliver
the annual commencement ad-
dress. Information comes! from
Judge Revill that Mr. Roosevelt
accepted the invitation and will
come up with Judge Revill from
his Georgia home in Meriwether.
Judge Revill, his neighbor and
friend, is a trustee of the school
and will introduce the distinguish-
ed guest.

The meeting will take place on
the eighth of May. The usual
barbecue will be given. More
than a thousand people will be
invited to this particular exercise
and entertainment.

Not only will the A. & M. be
honored by having so distinguish-
ed a visitor as Governor Roosevelt
of the Empire state. New York,,
but it will be a distinct hdnot to
Carroll county and there is no
doubt, but that our people will
turn out enmasse to do Governor
Roosevelt honor. It will be a
great occasion for the A. & M. . -

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Metamorphosis of the A & M into West Georgia College, 1933

The year 1933 was the birth of WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE or the metamorphosis
of the A & M into a new entity. The "school" at Carrol Hon undergoes a transi-
tion from being a borading high school to becoming a junior college in the
University System of Georgia.

The first faculty of the new West Georgia College were outstanding. Five
of them, noted below by asterisks, at a later date became college presidents. |

Irvine S. Ingram, President
*Dr. James E. Boyd, Mathematics

Matilda Callaway, Home Economics
*W. F. Gunn, Dean, Education
*Thomas A. Hart, Biology

M. E. Howell , Chemistry

Wilson Lavender, Registrar

Ruby Jenkins, Dietitian
*L, E. Roberts, History

Dorothy St. Clair, Music
^Robert M. Strozier, Foreign Language, Dean of Men

Sarah Ward, Dean of Women

Gordon Watson, English

Annie Belle Weaver, Librarian

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Corner Stone Inscription of
The Academic Building

TRUSTEES

George P. Munro
T. M. Zellars
J. A. Burrah
T. L. Thomason
J. A. Leavell
J, B. Sanders
S. Gumby Jordan
T. H. Persons
H. H. Lane
W. I. Vanhorn

L . C . Mandevi 1 1 e
J. A. Aycock

CONTRACTORS

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state of Georgia Historical Marker
Located in Front of the Bonner House
West Georgia College Campus

In January, 1908, the Fourth District Agricultural and Mechanical
School opened here with 96 students under principal John Holland Melson.
In 1933 the state withdrew support from its agricultural high schools.
As a result, this school was recognized as West Georgia College, a
junior unit of the University System of Georgia. It became a senior
college in 1957 under President Irvine Sullivan Ingram who headed the
institution from 1920 to 1960. This was the longest administrative
tenure in the history of the University of Georgia of its system schools
all included. Originally there were two brick buildings, being Melson
Hall and the Administration building. Adamson Hall was added in 1917.
All stand (in 1966) west of this point. The frame structure on this
site was built C. 1845 as the plantation house of Thomas Bonner. In
April, 1865, the house was raided by Federal calvary under Brigadier
General John T. Croxton whose campsite v/as at a road-fork one mile
west of here. The house became the first women's dormitory on this
campus. Until 1917 its location was 300 feet west of this point.

Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the commencement address in 1929.

022-4 Georgia Historical Commission 1966

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GRADUATES OF A & M SCHOOL
1909-1933

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Bishop, Boyd
Copeland, W. H.
Darden, John
Meadows, Olney
Nicholson, Susie
Spradlin, Eugene
Stovall, L. F.
Veal , Wesley
Boyd, Mrs. H. H.

1909 Graduates -ASM School '

I

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Barnett, Eugene
Burson, Boss
Culpepper, Boozer
Davidson, Willie
Dial , Pearl
Floyd, Theodore
Rozar, Nanette
Sharp, Lee
Pratt, Roy
Robison, A. G.
Ti singer, Tom
Foster, David

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1911 Graduates - A & M School

Adamson, Earnie
Almon, Carl
Causey, Norman
Davis, Joe
Hay, Yuke
Hoi lis, David
Lane, Lander
Lowrey, Bessie
Foster, Dora

* * *

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1912 Graduates -ASM School

Almon, Bob
Bowles, Mable
Cotton, Jamie
Davis, Ralph
Kelley, Albia
McBride, Ellis
Turner, Emma
Rhudy, Albert

* * * *

1913 Graduates - A & M School

Truitt, S. n.
Talley, N. M.
Sturdivant, W. 0.
Reid, Trena
Roberts, Mina
McLendon, Mary Lou
Foster, W. E.
Lowry, Alva
Evans, C. F.
Stevens, Raburn

* * * *

1914 Graduates - A & M School

Brooks, P. C.
Carmichael , W. H.
Earnest, Hammond
Henderson, W. P.
Murrah, J. M.
Patillo, R. S.
Rozar, M. W.
Smith, John
Turner, Louise
Tolbert, Josephine

* * *

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1915 Graduates -ASM School

Beall , Julian T.

Grain, Ruth

Fleming, Bernard

Foster, Dira Lou (Secretary)

Hall urn, Fred

Henry, Jessie

Hyde, Arthur

King, David (President)

Nixon, Ethel

Rutland, J. T.

Turner, Laura

Ware, Howard

Whitaker, F. R.

* * * *

1916 Graduates -ASM School

Alman, Bryan
Lester, Alvin
Widener, Sam
Reid, J. Frank
Shackleford, Dr. Bernard
Ti singer, Harvey
Truitt, Earnest

* *

1917 Graduates -ASM School

Alman, Earl

Armstrong, Harold

Barnes, Ezra

Bauqn, Willie

Earnest, Kate

Hughs, Wawena

Harris, Hershel

Hall, Neil!

Mickle, Hugh (President)

McGouirk, Charlie

Mutt, Zeb

Turner, Grover (Vice President)

Warren, Oren

Warren, Li Hie (Secretary)

****

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1918 Graduates - A & M School

Bennett, Howard
Carter, Homenall

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Jt, M. t.

1 Combs,

Lewis

Daniel

, Henry

, Davis,

Hattie Ma

Dav i s ,

Jessie

" Dukes,

J. D.

Groves

, Clair

Hall urn

, Harvey

Hall urn

, Gertrude

Howell , Joe

Kelley, Vera (Secretary)

Massey, Estes (Vice President)

Meachan, Frank

Melson, Holland

Robison, Howell

Sherman, John

Stone, Howard

Tolbert, Lewis

Turner, Rev. Paul

* * * *

1919 Graduates -ASM School

Barr, Lee (President)

Craven, Dollie

Hallum, Bradley

Holloway, Herman

Henry, Willie Mae

Holmes, Dudley (Vice President)

Johnson, Merline

Kelley, Nora

McKoy, Ben

McLendon, Grace

Pike, Catherine

Stevens, Cliff

Todd, Belle (Secretary)

* * *

1920 Graduates - A & M School

Bagwell , El a Mae

Brown, Odgen

Bridges, Hugh

Causey, Bates (President)

Davis, Jessie

Daniel , Sara

Flowers, Tom

Gladney, Robert

Hall , Frank

Hill, Hubert

Murrah, Eunice

Mickle, Erin (Secretary)

Pritchett, Thomas

Richardson, Clarence

Richardson, Malena

Ti singer, G. Elmer

Turner, Niel (Vice President)

Wilson, John

Woodall , John Pye

Wingo, Ozelma

* * * *

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1921 Graduates - A & M School

Anderson, Brewer (President)

Baird, Lucile

Ba rr, Owen

Bonner, J. C.

Cook, Mamie

ChamlDers, Andy

Charles, Oliver

Earnest, Mattie

Gordon, Gladys

Glenn, Amanda

Glenn, William (Vice President)

Hall urn, Alton, Dr.
Horton, Ozie
Jones, Louise
Jones, Eva Mae
Merrell, Eunice
Reid, Florye
Richardson, Rebecca
Rhudy, Ben
Smith, Jackson
Tolbert, Tom W.
Wynn, Ruth

****

1922 Graduates - A & M School

Barr, Clara

Bickley, Owen

Crews, Alvin

Carpenter, Robert

Causey, Clark

Daniel , Mary

Daniel , Viola

Garrett, Myrtice

Gordon, Clyde (President)

Howell , Mary

Hughs, Methvin

Ingram, Eugenia

Lumpkin, Lee

Lassette, Karl

Morgan, Dumah H. (Vice President)

Murphy, Edgar

Moore, Phillip

Monfort, Clarence

McLendon, Frances

McGariety, Inez (Secretary)

Nutt, Livada

Smith, Verdi e

Staples, Pal

Storey, Lucy

latum, J. W.

Turner, Ralph

Williamson, Vernon

****

1923 Graduates -ASM School

Barr, Zelma (Secretary)

Cline, Bessie

Combs, Cecil

Choice, William

Daniel , Addie Lee

Fowler, Joe

Glenn, Josephine

Garrett, 01 in

McClendon, Hoyt

Murphy, Linton (Vice President)

Murphy, Irene
Neiil , Charlies
O'Neal , Lovic
Petty, Sara
Pike, Sanders
Prichett, Buell
Pullen, Blake
Turner, L. M.
Wesley, William
Simonton, Fred

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1923 Graduates - A & M School (continued)

Williamson, Paul (President)
Fry, William
Arnett, Lonnie B.

* * * *

1924 Graduates - A & M School

Arnett, Harvey
Arnett, 01 in
Avery, Ben
Atkinson, Clyde
Brown, Tom
Bazemore, Theressa
Burns, Ruth
Cook, Willie
Cook, Vena
Dyer, Byron
Davidson, David
Hargett, Elizabeth
Hayes, Roy

Hendon, Lynn

Mickie, Jim T,

McKinley, Lena

Phillips, George (President)

Peeler, Cheatam

Stevenson, Lillian

Smith, Katie

Tolbert, Neal

Underwood, Clayton

Tolbert, Monte (Secretary)

Williamson, Elbert

Walls, Elmer

* * * *

1925 Graduates - A & M School

Arnett, Annie

Burson, Frances

Buffington, Joe

Pope, Baird

Bailey, Terrell

Cater, Ovie

Carter, Almon

Cleghorn, Fred

Doster, Donald

Denney, Louie (President)

Earnest, Broughton

Hardy, Jewell

Hammond, Ruth (Secretary)

Hammond, Clifford

Hightower, Cliff

Hightower, 01 in

Knight, Brannon

Kent, Verda

Kent, Vesta

Lett, Rushin

Kimbrough, Blanche

Maxwell , Ruddie

Marlowe, Robert

McWilliams, Comer

McGarity, Claude

McClendon, Clarcie (Vice President)

McKinley, Jewell

McGuire, Alma

Nixon, 01 in

Payne, C. T.

Pull en, Lucy

Pritchett, Moody

Parrish, Eunice

Rogers, Alvin

Storey, Eva

Strickland, Weyman

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1925 Graduates - A & M School (continued)

Simonton, Carl
Stone, Robert
Thompson, Joe

Upchurch, Bo
West, Spurgeon
Ward, Joe

* * * *

1926 Graduates - A & M School

Anderson, Thomas

Atkinson, Guy

Bailey, Etha

Barr, Ara (Secretary)

Bell, Quill ian

Christian, Harvey

Cole, Annie Mae

Cooper, Mildred

Combs, Alma

Combs, Harvey (Vice President)

Duncan, Ottice

Davis, Horace

Gordon, Sybil

Gibson, Robert

Garner, Bill

Holliday, Burtice

Hanson, Julia Kate

Haynes, Elmer

Harman, Thelma

Hyatt, Mae

Hyatt, Render

Huff, Glenn

High tower, Willie

Haynes, Baxter

Johnson, Dixie

Jackson, Jewel

Jones, John

Jones, Myrtle

Lovett, Elma

Lipham,

Loftin,

Luther,

Murphy,

Murphy,

Nail,

Neill

Kate

George
Earle
Mary
Walton
Pauline

Parrish, Opal

Pull en. Alma

Reid, Robert

Styles, Zella

Smith, Warren

Sheats, Madeline

Spradlin, Theodore (President)

Turner, Mary

Vickers, John

Watkins, Clara

White, J. B.

****'

1927 Graduates - A & M School

Almon, Evelyn
Arnett, Estelle
Bishop, Harold
Ballard, Barchard
Barker, Chelcie
Boynton, Reese
Bonner, Lovella
Coats, Adlelea

Crews, Nina
Caswell , Mildred
Crawford, Mildred
Crawford, Pauline
Davis, Render
Daniel , Marvin
Earnest, R. Lee (President)
Fussell , Ruby

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1927 Graduates -ASM School (continued)

Farmer, Opal

Lane, Hugh

Nutt, Estelle

Musick, Ruth

McGarity, Harold

Matthews, Loduic

McAlister, Mrs. Mary S.

McGuire, Carrie

McGuire, Wailes "

Martin, Felton

Moore, Mary

Rogers, Guy

Reid, Gladys

Smith, Elva

Strickland, Alma (Secretary)

Spence, James

Smith, Clara

Spradlin, Hazel

Gable, Era

Huffman, Faith

Hurst, J. M.

(Miss)

Kaylor, Curtis
Kaylor, Alice
Jones, Pauline
Hamrick, Alton
Hamrick, Richard
Kelley, Pearl ie Mae
Lambert, Gladys
Staples, D. Ford
Stevenson, Helen
Stal lings, Loyd
Thornton, Danie
Veal , Joe
Vickers, Jane
Worthan, Glenn
Worthy, Homer
Hembree, R. E. W.

* * * *

1928 Graduates - A & M School

Almon, Ima Lee
Banks, Hoke
Barnes, Ewell
Carter, 01 lie Bird
Buffi nton, Cecil
Caswell , Render
Cole, Sollie
Chandler, Florine
Cook, Dora
Cook, Irene
Denney, Gerila
Denney, Paul
Driver, Leonard
Dennis, Frank
Dyer, Harvey (President)
Dyer, Ruth
Gladney, Geneva
Hammond, Oliver
Hammond, Cynthia
Harm an, Clara

McLendon, Zona
McLendon, T. S.
McLeod, Pope
Martin, Christine
Nixon, Bill
Maddox, Janie
Nicholson, Lorene
Patterson, Mary
Prince, Carl
Russell, Hulett
Stal lings, Ray
Thompson, Lanore
Spruell , Roy
Spradlin, Earnest
Ti singer. Bob
Tatum, Farris
Williamson, Minnie
Worthy, Edmond
Wilson, Sibyl
Williamson, C. F.

105-

1928 Graduates - A & M School (continued)

Copeland, Inez

Heath, Harvey

Henderson, Mandeville (Vice President)

Jackson, Lucile

Jackson, Cecil

Jackson, Eula

Jordan, Mary

Kent, Faye

Long, Verdie

Marshall , Herman

Barnes, Annie (Secretary)
Lovvorn, Robert
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Brown, Joe
Hannah, Joe
Rogers, Newnan
Eidson, Eunice
Shaw, Mrs. B. F.
Wingo, Edna
Lands, Lola

* * *

1929 Graduates - A & M School

Almon, Blanche
Baskin, W. H.
Barr, Avis
Burns, Nell
Barnes, Mr. Loyce
Bohannon, Bernice
Bell , Emma Lou
Burson, Christine
Carter, James
Chambers, Troy
Caswell , Doyle
Chambers, Marvin
Crook, Hugh Lee
Collett, Dewey
Cole, Josephine
Cansler, Cpt. Manor
Denney, Fred
Denney, Gladys
Friddell , Lucille
Fullilove, Margart
Fuller, Jessie
Huff, Helen
Hightower, CI es tell
Hyde, Myer
Johnson, Elberta
Jordan, Inez
Jackson, Earnest
Kelley, Benson
Jordan, Jessie
Wingo, Lola Bell
Kitchens, Sterling
Williams, Mrs. H. N,

Liggin, Max
Land, Mary Helen
Latimer, Hamil
Lee, Virgil
Milam, Curtis
Murphey, Buford
McWaters, Harvey Lee
Nichols, King
Owens, Lucile
Nasworthy, Julia
Pullen, Opal
Powers, Leslie
Rowe, Wilbur
Stal lings, Robert
Scudder, Christine
Ray, John
Spradlin, Darden
Steed, Bob
Swaggert, L. Z.
Stephens, Golson
Spradlin, Grace
Storey, James
Taylor, Otis
Worthy, Steve
Wortham, Fannie
Swaggert, Taft
Watson, Eunice
Crawford, Christine
Allen, Lora Bell
Chapman, Ruby Lee
Craven, Lizzie Lou

* * * *

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1930 Graduates - A & M School

Austin, Louise

Ayers, Rhudy

Banks, Winford

Burdette, Agnes

Bryant, Edgar (President)

Burns, Sara (Vice President)

Bell , Clara

Cansler, Mozelle

Crouch, Joe

Carter, Votice

Caldwell , Jewell

Caldwell , Clara

Chambers, Amos

Crawford, Osmer

Cole, Christine

Creel , Grace

Duncan, Chester

Cotton, Mary Kate

Dennis, Leonard

Fendley, J. C.

Fullilove, Mary

George, Mose

Gladney, Ezel

Hamrick, White

Hosley, Dora

Jones, Lester

Kitchens, Earline (Secretary)

Lee, Laura

Lett, Frances

Lovvorn, Ruth

McLendon, Reese
Moore, Mary
Moore, Verla
Moore, Thelma
Montgomery, C. W.
Merrell , Leona
Meill, J. B.
Si Hay, Charlie
Simpkins, Mable
Shadinger, Georgia
Shadinger, Ruth
Sutherland, Clay
White, Gladys
White, Pauline
Walker, Sara
Williams, Mrs. Martha A,
Rowe, Wilbur
Moore, lone
Austin, Neil
Crowder, Bernice
Crider, Audie
Davis, Ella Mae
Hutcheson, Catherine
Oakley, Lois
Oakley, Jewell
Lauders, Edna
Miller, Thomas
Robertson, Mrs. L. M.

* * * *

1931 Graduates - A & M School

Adams, Frances
Adams, Franklin
Banks, Wayne
Barfield, Eason
Barnes, Myrtle
Baskin, Moses
Broom, A. J.
Bullock, Juliette
Burson, Lillian
Camp, Mrs. Dovie
Campbell , Homer L,

Cook, Blanche
Crawford, Ruby
Dean, Clydie
Dorough, [Jessie
Driver, Inez
Duncan, Ray
Farmer, Goldie
Fleeman, Wei don
Godbee, Alton
Hannah, Myrtle
Heath, Johnie

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1931 Graduates - A & M School (continued)

Hixon, Willie Mae
Hogg, Madeline
Hollingsworth, Charles
Hyde, Carmanell
Johnson, Zelma
Jordan, Glenn
Lambert, Virginia
Lee, Bernard
McKelvey, Myrtle R.
McWilliams, Frankie .
Matthews, A. M.
Maufort, Ben
Maxwell , Bonnie
Neeley, Mary
Phillips, Irvin
Richards, Roy

Rogers, Cecil
Rose, Annie Mae Stephens
Rowe, Mercer
Sands, Winnie
Scales, Iva Mae
Shelnutt, Jewell
Skelton, Emmett
Smith, Russell
Spence, Ney
Stal lings, Mildred
Teel , Bonnie
Walker, Herbert
Wilkinson, Mell
Williams, Bruce
Whaley, Myrtle
Wright, Howard

* * * *

1932 Graduates -ASM School

Abernathy, Herbert
Abernathy, John
Ayers, Dorsey
Ballard, Lurlie
Ballard, Reese
Bailey, Cleo
Bailey, Eric
Bailey, Winfred
Baxter, Ruby
Beavers, Mack
Boatright, Frank
Bohannon, Joe
Ballard, T. H.
Carter, Reba (Secretary)
Chestnut, Tommie Lou
Clark, Frank
Cohen, Hartford
Cole, Frances
Cooper, Lester
Capps, J. P. , Jr.
Crawford, Lawton
Culpepper, Tommie
Dillard, Hannah
Davies, Jack
Hay, Harris
Hay, Thomas
Davis, Young

Deck, Horace
Deck, Ralph
Fisher, Taylor
Fletcher, Lois
Gaddy, Hazel
Golden, Laura
Hamrick, Radford
Hansard, Victor
Hull, Vera
Jackson, Avery
Johnson, Carlton
Jones, Doris
Kay lor, Weyman
Kiehold, Robert
Lawrence, Ted
McCann, George
McDonald, Harold
McGuire, Edna
Martin, Milton
Martin, Reid
Meadows, Ruby
Merrell , Horace
Moore, James
Moses, Mary George
Mullennix, Marian
Nessel , Melvin
Nixon, Katherine

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1932 Graduates - A

& M School (continued)

Parker, Frank
Parrish, Elizabeth
Parrish, Emma Lee
Payton, Maynard
Richards, Hugh
Ray, Ralph
Ray, Joseph
Robinson, Rebecca
Rogers, Harvie
Rowe, Gladys
Scudder, Catherine
Sellars, Claude
Shadix, Myrtie
Simpkins, H. A.
Smith, Alton
Smith, Maggie
Smith, Homer
Smith, Merdic

Smith, Welch

Smith, Winston W.

Stall ings, Christine .

Stal lings, Tommie Lou

Staples, Tom

Stephens, Mawnena

Stovall , Dumah

Taylor, Geneva

Walker, Freida (Vice President)

West, Florine

West, Thad

Whitehead, Christine

Williams, Alberta

Williams, Herbert

Williamson, Ralph

Winkle, Lee

Witcher, Floyd

Robinson, Dent (President)

* * * *

1933 HrRduates - A & M School

Ackien, Marvin

Almon, Charles

Baldwin, W. K. (President)

Blackwelder, Fae

Bonner, Robert

Brigman, Manor

Burnham, James

Burnham, Reba (Secretary)

Campbell, Elmer

Crawford, Leona

Entrekin, Kress

Evans, B. A. (Vice President)

Fields, Samuel

Ford, A. W.

Garner, Culver

Gil land, Grover

Gray, Clara Mae

Grahen, Myrl

Harman, Marion

Hendrix, Dumah

Holland, Marjorie

Jarmey, Dewey

Johnson, James

Johnson, John

Morris, Harold
Morris, Marguerite
Moore, Frances
Mote, Virginia
Neill, Wynell
Nordoby, Olive
Owensby, Arnold
Phillips, J. B.
Pyron, Preston
Rooks, Lucille
Rowe, Shirley
Sewell , Kenneth
Shadinger, Irene
Shadinger, Norman
Smith,^Ruby
Spangier, Fred
Spence, Mary
Spence, Ruth
Stovall , Claude
Talley, Zelma
Todd, Louise
Veal , Robert
Walker, Rowe
West, George
Williams, Frances

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