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The Coyote
Freshman Edition
Freshman Edition
Weatherford, Texas, Wednesday, March 24, 1937
No. 11
Vol. XI
and
BY AN ANNUAL
HONOR ROLL
0. H. Land Dies
of
BY AN ANNUAL
BY AN ANNUAL
Reading . . Layuna Allison
Vocal Solo . . Helen Pyeatt
Piano Duet . . Miss Akard
Elsewhere in this paper you will
find a poetry department under the
heading, “The Charmed Circle.” This
little department is edited by Lo-
rene Lambkin, and we hope that
the lovers of all that is good and
true and beautiful shall find in it
a touch of the glory all beauty con-
tains.
Girls Quartet
Sings Over WFAA
COLLEGE DEBATE TEAM ENTERS
TOURNAMENT IN ARKANSAS
extend sympathy to the family
this man.
SPEECH CLASS PRESENTS TWO
ONE-ACT PLAYS AT COLLEGE
REV. HERNDON ROBINSON CLOSES
SUCCESSFUL STUDENT REVIVAL
College Students Judge
Declamation at Dennis
Miss Bond Has
Short Vacation
VICTORS PRESENTED WATCHES
BY FRIENDS OF THE COLLEGE
Poetry Convention At
Trinity University
To Rev. Herndon
Robinson
R. A. MORAN, TOM HARRISON
ARE AWARDED DEBATE PRIZES
The Ship Crafter’s Club, a poetry
organization, will convene on April
9th. The convention wil be held at
Trinity University at Waxahachie,
Texas. The contest is open to all
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Texas Youth Conference
At New Braunfels, Texas
Phi Theta Kappa
Easter Egg Hunt
Chorus Sponsor
St. Patrick Tea
Wilda Ruth Garland
Voval Solo . . Dell Bass
Piano Solo . . Genevieve Boswell
From 7:30 to 8:30,
Double Quartet
Piano Solo . . Rebecca Anderson
Vocal Solo . . Frances Culwell
Reading . . Geneva Elders
Duet . . Dell Bass and Donald
Weaver
Girls Quartet
Vocal Solo . . Anna Buchanan
Reading . . Mrs. Guerry
Chorus
The chorus wishes to extend its
appreciation to all the town people,
the students, and the faulty who at-
tended. The chorus will present an
operetta in the near future and the
members will appreciate the pre-
sence of more of the faculty and
students.
Mr. O. H. Land, the college pho-
tographer, died at his home of pneu-
monia at 7:15 o’clock on the even-
ing of March 22. Mr. Land had been
ill for several days.
Funeral services were held at
White’s Funeral Home at 3:00 the
afternoon of March 23.
Mr. Land cooperated well with
the college Annual staff this sea-
son in preparing the photographs
for the Oak Leaf, and the students
appreciate the patience he displayed
in dealing with them. The students
of Weatherford College sincerely
Two men’s debate teams from
Weatherford College, accompanied
by Miss Faye Bunch and her sister,
Bunnie, of Denton, attended a de-
bate tournament March 12—13 in
Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Five states
were represented in the tournament
held by the Ouachita Baptist Col-
lege. Weatherford College was the
only Texas school represented. The
Weatherford teams finished the
quarter-finals, lacking only one vic-
tory entering the semi-finals. Moran
and Harrison defeated Harding Sen-
ior College from Searcy, Arkansas,
a team which went into the finals.
Moran and Rogers tied for first
place in individual rating among
the squad.
The teams were well entertained
by the college. Miss Bunch and
Bunnie stayed in the beautiful new
Girl’s Dormitory. The boys stayed
in the home of one of the professors
of modern language. After the de-
bates were over the party motored
on up to Little Rock where they
met a friend of Miss Bunch, who
drove them to the points of inte-
Miss Charlcie Bond, registrar of
Weatherford College spent last
week visiting her relatives, Mr. and
Mrs. John W’. Bond, of Houston.
She also visited in Fort Lavaca, Bay
City and Palacious, towns along the
Gulf Coast.
It is the first vacation Miss Bond
has had from the office since the
beginning of this college year and
the students hope she enjoyed her
visits.
things he promised to do. In the
end her faith was re-established by
a new understanding and they made
amends for the many unhappy hours
that had been theirs.
The second play, a comedy, was
written by Lance Hurst. The mem-
bers of the cast were: Lance Hurst,
Cluade Martin, Virginia Hart, Myr-
tle Pearson, Kathryn McKinney,
Jack Norris, and Louise Mahan.
Lance played a particularly amus-
ing part—that of a theatrical pro-
ducer, and the other members of
the cast, with the exception of Myr-
tle Pearson who was his secretary,
were applicants to Hurst for jobs
on the stage.
The students of the college ap-
peared to enjoy the plays, and the
speech class hopes to present them
elsewhere sometime soon.
At New Braunfels, Texas, on April
17th and 18th, will be held a Texas
Youth Conference on the Problems
of the South. The conference will
be sponsored by the Y. W. C. A. Mr.
Sam Householder has been invited
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The Weatherford College chorus
sponsored a St. Patrick’s Silver Tea
at Couts Hall, March 12. The St.
Patrick theme prevailed in the de-
corations, the refreshments, and the
program.
The program was as follows: from
3:30 to 4:30,
Double . . Where My Caravan
Has Rested
Vocal . . Anna Buchanan
Boys uartet Drink to Me Only
With Thine Eyes
Reading . . Maragret Talbot
Vocal Solo . . Layuna Allison
Reading . . Lorene Lamkin
Toy Symphony and Chorus .. T.
W. Stanley School
From 4:30 to 5:30,
Toy Symphony and Chorus .. T.
W. Stanley School
Piano Solo . . Cora Laurice Talley
We, the students of Weather-
ford College, shall not forget
Reverend Herndon Robinson. We
shall not forget because he left
something with our lives—a
something that cannot be forgot-
ten. We appreciate his under-
standing, and we appreciate the
help he gave us.
Because of his coming we feel
that we shall become better men
and better women. We know that
he has strengthened our determi-
nation to adhere to the ideals we
believe in, and made our faith
a more potent thing. That in it-
self means much to us who are
young and still a little fearful of
what the inevitable future may
hold for us.
His contribution to our lives
can not be measured in the meter
of solid words. It is too far-reach-
ing. The shadows of his teachings
shall be flung before us into the
after days. Some of them shall
be a part of us until the end,
and then, perhaps, be passed on
for posterity. We hope that this
ma ybe true, and we feel that it
is true for the greater part of us.
Many of us who went into that
little room came out again wiser,
if sadder, men and women. It
would be an excellent thing if
we could only have him with us
as a member of the faculty to be
to us for an entire year what he
was for that lone week.
We hope that he may come a-
gain. We would enjoy reliving the
days he was with us.
Three students of Weatherford
College, Layuna Allison. Lorene
Lamkin, and Clyde B. Ragsdale,
were selected by Miss Lenora White
to judge the elimination contest in
declamations at the Dennis school
last Friday night. The students se-
lected from the contest entrants are
to represent that school in the Par-
ker County meet.
Miss Anderson
Attends Music
Course, Denton
Miss Rebecca Anderson is attend-
ing a Master Music Course being
taught this week at Texas State
College for Women in Denton. The
lecturer for the course is Earnest
Hutcheson, Dean of the Juilliard
School of Music in New York City.
T. S. C. W. has been made the only
extension branch of Julliard School
in the South; the work consists of
lectures, private lessons and con-
certs given by Mr. Hutcheson, and
is terminated Saturday evening by
a student recital in which Miss An-
derson will be presented.
rests there. Among these were the
state capitol, state penitentiary, Sol-
diers Memorial building, and a large
lumber mill. Afterwards, the group
dined at Ole King Cole. From Lit-
tle Rock they drove to Clarkesville,
where they spent the night. Sunday
they drove into the Ozark National
Forest Service. After being shown
through the camp the party drove
up into the mountains to the high-
est peak in the forest, Devil’s Knob,
where they climbed the one hundred
and six foot look-out tower. The
climb was made through the snow
and sleet and high cold wind, but the
explanations given by the forest
ranger of the various apparatuses
rewarded the debaters for the
treacherous climb.
The squad returned home by
way of Ft. Smith and Van Buren,
the home, incidentally, of Bob
Burns.
When the squad arrived in Wea-
therford Sunday night the mileo-
meter registered 1100 miles for the
trip. All reported a nice trip.
Randall Rogers, a freshman stu-
dent from Poolville, Texas, and Al-
marine Laymance, a senior student
from Weatherford, Texas, won the
first prize awards in the annual
oratorical contests of Weather-
ford College, which were held
in the college auditorium during
the chapel period Monday March 22.
Other students who entered the
contests are: James Howry, Coit
Mock, Richard Dickey, Arthur
Fletcher and O. B. Salyer, of the
Boy’s Division. In the Girl’s Divi-
sion were: Margaret Talbot, Myrtle
Lois Pearson and Layuna Allison.
The judges of the- contests came
here from Ft.' Worth, where they
are assocated with Texas Wesleyan
College. They were Misses Flanni-
gan and West and Mr. Bowman.
Following the contest the win-
ners were announced by the donor
of the prizes, Mr, R. K. Phillips, a
prominent citizen of Weatherford,
presented Almarine Laymance, win-
ner in the Girls’ Division, a beauti-
ful and costly watch.
Mr. Sam Morrison, representing
Mr. B. F. Cherry who, in collabora-
tion with the Texas- Public Utilities
Corporation, has for fifteen years
been rewarding the winner of the
Boys’ Division of the oratorical con-
tests of Weatherford College, pre-
sented Randall Rogers, winner of
the division, a handsome Elgin poc-
ket watch.
The subject matter of the orations,
which the students wrote themselves
was generally very good. Randall
Rogers’ winning oration bore the
title, “Modern Pioneers” and was
delivered in a forceful manner. Al-
marine Laymance’s winning con-
tribution was, “Living'". A single
word, but it carried weight and sig-
nificance behind it; and it was well
delivered.
Genius, elements that make great
men, appeals for peace, law and
crime offered subject matter for
other orations, all of which were
good and handle effectively.
The Weatherford College revival,
which began Monday, March 15,
with Rev. Herndon Robinson, presi-
ding elder of the Methodist Church
at Texarkana, in charge, closed last
Friday, March 19. The revival was
a decided success and gave to the
student body a stronger bond of
brotherhood. Many too found a new
courage, and three students joined
the church.
The success of this revival might
be traced beyond the excellent ser-
mons given by Brother Robinson to
the prayer services instituted the
week preceding the opening of the
revival services. The prayer services
were held each evening in Couts
Hall and each morning at the col-
lege. Brother J. R. Carruth and the
Ministeral Association members
were in charge of the morning ser-
vices, while Mrs. J. R. Carruth, Rev.
J. M. Bond and Sam Householder
served in the capacity of leaders
from time to time.
A special room for prayer was in-
stituted during the week of the re-
vival for those desiring a quiet place
for meditation and prayer before
services.
The most popular spot during the
revival was the office of Brother
Robinson, which came to be known
as the conference room. At all times
of the day students were gathered
in the auditorium awaiting their
turn to speak to the man who seem-
ed to understand college people
more than anyone they had ever
met before. In that room many prob-
lems were solved that textbooks
could not answer; difficulties were
straightened and friendship born.
The students shall not soon forget
those conferences or the man who
presided over them.
Another interesting feature of the
revival was a questionaire given to
the students to be answered. The
j result of this action proved that col-
lege students are not as wild or im-
moral as popular belief has them to
be. Elsewhere in this paper you will
find a full report from the ques-
tionaire.
1st 6 weeks of 2nd Semester
Those Making 5 A’s
Boswell, Helen
Jennings, Howard
Snider, Mrs. Simon
Others On Honor Roll
Andrews, W. C.
Buchanan, John
Burns, Dan
Canafax, Fred
Collins, Dorsey
Craven, Mary Louise
Doss, Scott
Fletcher, Arthur
Gordon, Elizabeth
Griffith, Ruth
Hankins Juanita
Harris, Charles
Harrison, Tom
Hart, Leslie
Howry, James
Hutchings, Frances
Keener, Bernice
McClendon, Helen
Oliver, Ray
Pittenger, Jane
Rogers, Randall
Rutherford, Christine
Sartor, Luula Bea
Sims, La Trice
Smith, Lena
Tipton, Georgia Fae
Warren, Elmore
Washam, Henry B.
West, Bessie Lou
Womanck, Cleta
The Girls’ Quartet sang before
the microphone at radio station
WFAA, Dallas, Monday, March 15.
They were instituted on Mrs. Tuck-
er’s Smile Program and sang two
beautiful numbers.
Between numbers the station an-
nouncer spoke a few words con-
cerning Weatherford College, list-
ing important members of the facul-
ty and stating that our school is
one of the best junior colleges in the
state of Texas.
A radio receiving set was set up
in the college auditorium and the
student body listened to the broad-
cast. Miss Bond and Mrs. McDaniel,
who were on the road to Houston,
Texas, tuned in the station over
their automobile radio and also lis-
tened to our girls’ broadcast.
Miss Elizabeth Vivrett, voice in-
structor at Weatherford College,
Mrs. Works, Geneva Elders, Frances
Wallace, Myrtle Lois Pearson, and
Sid Bailey accompanied the quartet
to Dallas.
The four girls who compose our
quartet are: Dell Bass, Frances Cul-
well, Helen Pyeatt, and Helen Cor-
ley.
The members of the Phi Theta
Kappa were entertained Friday j
night by an Easter Egg Hunt. Upon
arriving at Sunshine Lake, they im-
mediately started the hunt of the
buried eggs. Mrs. McDaniel com- I
plained because Tom and Dorsey
did not hide the eggs where she
could see them. Mary Louise seems
to be rather lucky as she found
fifteen eggs.
After a fast stepping game of
baseball, hot dogs, potato chips, and
soda pop were devoured by those
present. Ghost was played until all
were ghosts except Helen. Mary
Nell and Mr. Householder who
cheated and they are still trying
to decide who won. Those present
were Helen Boswell, Frances Hut-
chings, Mary Louise Craven, Christ-
ine Rutherford, Mary Nell Pratt,
Juanita Hankins, Cleta Womack,
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Miss Bunch’s speech class pre-
sented an interesting program for
the student body last Wednesday
morning imediately following the
chapel period. Two one-act plays,
each written by a member of the
speech class, were presented.
The first play, a drama, was en-
titled, “Wings of Chance”, and was
written by Clyde B. Ragsdale. The
characters were: J. Edward Holt, a
famous speed flyer, played by Rich-
ard Dickey; Alice Holt, his wife,
played by Ruth Etta Warren; Barry
Rockne, a friend of Holt’s, played
by Sid Bailey; Aunt May, played
by Layuna Allison. The scene was
in the Holt home, and the play
gather its denoeument from psy-
chological element. Alice, Holt’s
wife, lost faith in him because he
was a dreamer and never did the
R. A. Moran and Tom Harrison,
members of the Weatherford Col-
lege debate team, were awarded a
prize of five dollars each for being
the best debaters. The donor of the
I prizes was Mr. A. E. Zellars of Wea-
therford.
The prizes were awarded Moran
and Harrison during the chapel per-
iod of the morning oratorical con-
tests. Mr. Zellars made a short
speech to the student body pointing
out to them why speaking is an as-
set. “In the days when I went to
school,” he said, “debating and ora-
tion made up a prominent part of
my school work. And I am glad
to see that the schools and colleges
are reviving the art.”
The Weatherford College debaters
have done well this year. They have
made several trips, sometimes into
other states. And we are proud of
them.
R. A. Moran, a freshman in rat-
ing, is from Mineral Wells, Tom
Harrison, a senior, is from Eastland.
Rogers, Laymance Win Oratorical Contests
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