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VOLUME 1 MILUGAN COLLEGE , TE NN. FEBtRAR Y 13 1 19~9 NUMBER 6

PARDEE HALL THE BOY'S HOME PAG~ TWO THE ST AM PEDE s. 0. s. Please He!p Us Find These Lost Children

We have not heard from the following former students. Any- one knowing addresses of any of these. please communicate with the Range. for. J!,ll1s Robert Veatch Gordonville, Va. Leftand toMr right· d MrM. an d M rs. A. p aul Daugherty, Dallas; Mr. and Mrs.\\ illiam D. Daugherty, \Vaco· · an rs. J. Charles Dau,;herty, Nacogdolhe.3, , Mr. Arthur ] rancis Woods At the international conven- CATHERINE T. HANCOCK New Ca.,tle, Penn. tim which met rerently in Den- _ __ DAVID SINCLAIR BURLESON Mr. Lyle William-. vcr, Colo., the Daugherty broth- Tampa, Fla. crs and their wives were signally Mrs. Catharine T. Hanco 'k, David Sinclair Burlo~ou. rd honored by the convention and formerly Catharine Thomas, 221 College Dean; born in Carter Mr. A is Williams the city of Denver as well. The West Fifth Street, San Dimas, County, Tennes. ee, 1871, was c/o Toote and Davis headquarters hotel The Albany California, graduated from Mii- the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. w. Atlanta, Ga. gave the_m. special recognit.ion; ligan College in 1913; attended Burleson. He received his B.A, W.W. Williams the_ Chnstian 1<:vangalist got Los . A:ngeles Conservatory of degree and his M.A. degree from Tampa, Fla. th -11· pictures for runningwilh a Music m 1931 and 1935; she has Milliga~ College in 1891 and 1898 Mr. A.Z. Updyke story later; and th~ Denver Post futher studied under Dr. Walter respect1vPly; graduate student., Merchanicsburg Ky gav c them a large picture space Barkley and Olga Steeb ; her pre- University of Virginia, 1896-98 ' · and a headline on the second sent occupation is piano teacher traveled in Europe. summer 1909 Mr.d Jesse Boyd page of the first section. in San Dimas, California. She i, 1927; Harvard summers 1901-02 Br1 geport, Ala. This was not the Daugh ,rty organist at the First Christian University of Chicago, summer, Mrs. B. W. Thomas brothers' idea but almost as soon Church and social editor of the 1911 Prinr.iple of Academy, New Linden Ave as it was learned that the three ~an Dimas Press. Her community Castle Virgina, 1894; Profe 3sor A heville, N. C. 1 brothers and their wives were at 11_1terest are Sunday School, mis- of1892 MathmeticS1, J Tazwell, Virginia Mr • R.,, L • -.h . orn b urg the conv,ntion they were herd- s10nary work, organist for the ; I rofessor of Mathematics, Ashland Ky •' cd into the press rooms. First Christian Church, order of Tazwell, Virginia, 1893; Head, ' · Only three children in the the Eastern Star and a member F~epartment of Language, Mr. Clyde Turrentine family and all of them ministers and publicity chairman for the wrence, Alabama, State Normal Shelbyville, Tenn. in the Christian church and in Pomone Valley Musicians Club. School, summer and fall, 1908; Mrs. E. M. Sutton the same state. And the father Immediately after graduating Professor of English Literature, Marion, Va. and mother, Mr. and Mrs. from Milligan College t,he taught East Tennessee State Teachers Herbert s tt Daugherty are also in Texas. at Sweetwater Seminary for two College, since 1911; Dean of the Tamp F~ on Mr. W. E. Daugherty the fath years. She ha a son Lambreth East Tennessee State Teachers a, a. 0 ' . - J · h · . ' . ' C 11 · · Mr Mack Sutt n er was for years state evangelist r. w o 1s now twenty one years o ege smce 1920; Acting Presi- · t ' of Florida and was listed in the of age. He is specializing in Jour- dent of the East Tennessee State ArmS ead, W. Va. ''Who's Who of the Ministry.'' nalis~11 and has been editor and Te~chers College, summer and Mr. and Mrs. Sues And hi father, Mr. Charles R publtsher of the "La Verne Lead- sprmg, 1925; Secretary of the Murphy, N. C. Daugherty, was at Eno-lewood. er'' for the past year. Mrs. Han- East Tennessee Educational As- Miss Laura Bell Stacy Tenn., many year, while Charle~ cock writes : sociation since 1922; Author: Grundy, Va. R.'s brother, Mr. W. A. Daugh- ''~!though I have been very Prac~ical E_nglish Grammar, Mrs. Maggie Stuart erty (great uncle of the brothers) ~low m responding since r ceiv- Applied English Grammar, and Atlanta, Ga. preached for 50 years at Nona- mg the Alumni edition of the Grammar Manual; Joint author Mr. George W. Stacy burg, Tenn.; and the great-grand- "Stampede", I wish to say it was of AppJied English Language Aloran, Va. father, Mr. S. C. Daugherty, an read -- every word - _ and and Ai-,plied English Language Orangeman in Ireland, upheld br?ught b~c~ many happy mem- ~anual} Co-a~thor: Adventures Mr . Eunice Shockly 111 Protestanti~m there in the home~ ones of M1lhgan CollAge days. I Enghsh(series of six. books). Leaksville, N. C. land. shall ever hold a warm spot in- Married Mary Henley Dew of Mr. Wilbur Stanbery my heart for Milligan. The West Point, Virginia. 400 Daytona -character Bulldlna First of All- Buffalo Range makes it possible -Christian Education, Hope of World· Elizabethton, Tenn. to keep in touch with friends of Mr. Lawrence Richard Stephens The modern housewife walks other days and while I live so far that was my privilege. My heart- Wytheville, Tenn. a mile preparing a meal -- half a away, when it is possible I felt wishes are ~xtended for the Mammie Baylor Simpson mil(! to and from the delicatessen always visit the school again. It succegs to continue Character store. Bluefield, W. Va. has been ten year now since Builcling as done at Milligan." (Continued on page 7) rrHR RTTl?Ft-_l,O RANGE PAGE THREE Who They Are Where They Are What They Are Doing O. Neil Hall, 312 D. Street Marv Hendrickson, class Elizabeth Lcatitia Wilso n, Elizabethton, T ennc.3 see, class of Jf 1891 of El Monte, Kent, Oregon; ffas:5 of 1905; she 1933; is now assi-- t ant to Chief California has Re nt m a was formerly Kizabeth Leat:tia Auditor at American Bemberg poem called " lV:illigan, The Kelly; she is the wife of a whe:1t Corporation, and North Ameri- Beautiful." She has written in rancher and mother of fi ve boy ,::. ran Rayon Corporation. Eliza- reference to the poem , the fol- and one daughter; comm~mity bethton; is a member of the Red lowing quotation; ··Reading the intere:--t ::; are church, Gran ~e , and Cro s. Fellowship Bible Class of Range and seeing the pictures of all civic intere ts. She enclosed Fir~t Baptist Church of Eliza- familiar scene,, of more than half one dollar for a years subs3rip- bethton, Cherokee Athletic a ce ntury ago, resulted in a little tion to the Buffalo Range. A sociation. poem whi ch you can use as a --R-- -- R -- chi nk-filler for the Range when Ella B. Payne, E towah, Mrs. Helen Tranum Nave, you are in need of more materi al. T'ennessee ; class of 1932; she is 226 E. Chilhowie Avenue, \nd lest some one should waste teacher of Civics and History Johnson City T ennessee; member pity over my seemingly hard lot and serves as Teacher-Librarian of class of 1935; Rhe is a.7si ta? t 1· I'll add that I am now retired, at Etowah High School; her in- EUGEN"IA ADAMS03 to Mrs. H.J. Derthick at Mil- not on a pension, but savings tere:5t are Parent-Teacher Asso- ligan College ; her intcrestb are from past activities _. alsa a good e;iation, Sunday S :! hool, and After gaaduatin g Irom ¥ il- Church and Scouting. home with my sister. But be:-;t of Church. ligan College in 1932, E ugen.a -R-- -- R -- all, t he Lord is my Shepherd. " Adamson taught in the City Steve B. Lacey, 116 W. Mable Dyer, Jonesboro) Schools of Gadseen, Alabama ; in Unaka Street, Johnson City, Tennessee; class of 1933; she is 1936_37, attended the Li brary Tennes3e ; member of class of M II h B f I ~1 ow teacher of Home . E 3onomics School of Georgia Peabody Col- 1931 · has attended Duke and the ) I i igan t e eauti u m Boones Creek High Schoo1, lege receiving her B.S. in Library Univer ity of Cali fornia. Present I -- Jonesboro,. T ennessee; she . has , S c1<• ,,n ce i·n June , 1937 ,• since occup~tion, H ead Coach of Foot- 0 Milligan the beautiful, taught i_n the same_s~ hool smce September 1937 she has been ball lf,rack, and Girls' Basketball How d~ar thy scenes to me; . graduat10n from Milligan. li brarian at Hiwassee Colb ge. at Milliga:o. Coll ege; interests T he bn ghtest years of all my hfe -R-- --R-- are Church and anything that Wer- those I spent in thee. Martha Shepherd, Mosheim, aids the underprivileged ; he as Tennesse0; class of 1926; present Lucy Louise Hatcher was a Thy hills and dales and crystal held the fo llowing P ublic positi- occupation teaching Biology and member of the class of 1905; since creek, onf3: Athletic ,Director of Mary Mathematics in Mosheim High le~ving ~ illiga~ College, she re- With graceful shade trees t all Hughes High School, Prin ipal School; community interests are ~e1ved tliplo a from East Tenn- AnJ grand 04:l Buffalo mo,mtain. of Mary H ughes High Sohool. Community Club E astern Star -'Ssee State Teachers College and Standi ng monitor over all. ,-- R-- and Church. Sn ' wri es : 'Th~ I . A. clegree from University of Hazel J. H art , Elizabeth ton, four years I s_p ent at Milliga Virgin'a; gradua ,(i) work toward 'fennessee, Route N 1,;1mber 4; have he ped me in the rest of my the Ph. D. degree at Pea~ody Maneul E. Sanders, Route member of class of 1936; teacher life . I prize very highly the Collegeiand New V@rk Umvcr- 1 No. 4, Jonesboro, Tennesse ; of Home Ec momic at E lk Mills frionsh'p fo rmed there.'' sity ; 1\/fiss Hat cher ~a had exp_er- member of t he class of, 1932; High School. 1 _ , _ R __ ience as teacher ·m the high -R-- present occ.upa-tion is chemist in schoob of Tennessee and Okla. analytical Labratory for T ennes- 'Clarcnce E. Witt, 405 Ohio W. Garfield P ice, \Em- 1 homa, Midland College, T exas, H. Ave. , Erwin, '".Pennessee ; class of see Eastman Corporation, Kings- E ast Te1ine.::,see State T eacher.:; breville, T'cnnessee; class ofl905; 1936; since leaving Milligan at- port, T e11_nessee ; community College and Appalachia State at present time is inspecting lum- tended University of T enne3see interest are Young peoples activ- T eachers College, North Carolina ber at E mbreville ; community Law School for two years; he is ities Church, school. During the She was principal of the high interests are the people of the now Assistant Coach, Musical years 1933-1934 he taught in the 3r.hool at Walter, Oklahoma and community, keeping them busy Director, Physical Educational Washington county public Johnson City, T enness~e; Miss and seeing them self- supporting. Director, and T eacher of Com- school s, also served four year:-; as Hatcher is State PreJident of the --R-- mercial Law in Talladega High Sunday School superintPndent. National League of American School, T alladega, Alabama. Elsie Lee Price, 304 Union He writes, ''Enclosed you will Women and has contributed St., E:·win, T ennessee ; class of find one dollar for my subscrip- --R-- both prose and poe tr.v to maga- 1936; at present she is t eaching tion to the Buffalo Range. I rec- zines and newspapers ;has travel- art in the Erwin City Schools; eived my sample copy at Mrs. James Edwin Edens, 527 ed in eight foreign countrie, and community interests are Church Derthicks pre-Christmas dinner Race Street , Elizabethton, is now Dean of the Gulf Park 1..,~nnes:5ce ; member of the clas.- work, member of the Business and think it a fin e publication. College, Gulfbort, Missis ·ppi. and Professional Organization, I shall never cease to remember of 1938; present occupation , She writes : I still consider Mil- Vice President of Parent-Teacher Milligan and friendships made teacher at Tiger Valley Elf' men- ligan the dearest spot in the As.::,ociation. there. tary School in Carter county Nodd my "Kindly Mother. " PAGE FOUR THE BUFFALO RANGE The Bu:ffalo Range PublLhed M :uthly by the Alumni A3.;;ociation J. Goff Long, Editor Subscription, $1.00 per year.

Visitors From Out On The Range

J·esse Boatman, cla--s of 1938, Jonesboro, Trnnesi-ee. Beatrice Rice Striker, dass of 1937, St, Louis, Mjssouri. John E. Willi~on

-Character Building First of All-

DR. MYRTLE SMITH KENNETH C. HART DR. L. R. DINGUS embraces a wide ran~e of sub- jects. His contributions to litera-• ture are as follows: "Study of Dr. Myrtle Smith graduated Along with a photograph I "Lee" R Dingus was bo~·n Lite1 ary Tendencies in the from Milligan College in the class for the Alumni paper of Milligan near Wood, Scott County, V1:- Novellen of Theodore Storm''; of 1922. In September of this College K. C. Hart of Madison- ginia, January 4, 1873. His "Chaucer's Verb'' (based on a same year she enrolled at the ville Tennessee has eut in the parent were Philip M . and Mar- study of the "Knight's Talr" University of Tennessee Medical follo~1ing accou~t of his work tha Banner Dingus. His early and the ''Nonne's Priestes College in Nashville where the since leaving Milligan. edurational training was obtain- Talc"); "The Indo-European remained from 1922 to 1924. In ed, for the most part, in the pub- Root 'Dha' as it Appears in Eeptember, 1924 she transferred Principal Chuckey High lie free sehools of his native Modern English"; "Beowulf her studies to the women's Med- School, Chuckey, Tennessee, county. Outstanding among his Translated into Alliterative ical College of Philadelphia, Penn- 1920-29; Principal Mosheim early teachers, he is pleased to Verse---E'elections''; "Max and High School, Mosheim, Tenn., sylvania and graduated from that recall names of Profe~sor Joe C. Theklain, Schiller's Wa1lenstein"; 1929-33; Superintendent of Pub- institution in \June, 1926. She Vicars and Prof. Wm. Floyd "Heinrich H0in's Attitude to- served internship at Passavant lic Schools, Green County, 1933- Ramey as being particularly ward Religion"; "Southern Lyric Hospital in Pittsburg Pennsyl- 36; Head Science Department, helpful to him in the character Poetry"; "A Brief on Schiller's vania during the years 1926 and Hiwassee College, Madisonville, of their instruction. He mentions Esthetic Philosophy"; "New Tennessee :since 1936. 1927. From PaEisavant Hospital Bricklcy's Schoolhouse, 'Kentucky and Tenn- Tree", and Riverview Seminary plex"; "The Virginia Contri- e ~ee where she served in public -Christian EdL•cation, Hope of World· as places where he attended bution to Kentucky and Tran- health work. In Augu t, 1927, school in his boyhood. sylvani~"; "Transylvania, the Dr. Smith sailed for Europe, missionary. Dr. Dingus is an alumnus of Pioneer College of the West"; having spent the previous year Dr. Smith was forced to return Milligan College, A. B.; 1894; "Founding of Transylvania Col- at the Kennedy School of Miss- to America due to illness. After the University of Virginia, M.A., lege"; "Rivers as National . ions in Hartford, Conneticut. she recovered from this illness 1907; and Ph. D., Univer:;ity of Boundaries"; "A Word-List from She was ordained as a minister she travelled among the greatest Virginia, 1914; graduate student Virginia" (being localisms and in the spring of 1929 and was churches of the United States University of Chicago, summers dialect words used in Scott commissioned as a minister to and then spent nine months in of 1908, 1910, 1911, 1920; Uni- County) ; "Lavan, a Short Story"; the Belgian Congo in Africa. Be- the Prote tant Ho pital, Nash- veroity of Berlin 1912-14; he "The Abode of True Ideals, a fore entering upon her duty of a ville, Tenne see. Since leaving also spent the summer of 1907 Sketch"; "George and Polly, a mis ionary in the Belgian Congo the hospital in Nash ville he has studying in France and Germany Story of the Ci\ il War.'' she spent six months in Brussells, been doing general medical prac- He has held professorships Dr. Dingus did war work with the Belgian, learning French and tice in her home county, Over- in the following institutions of Food Administration at Rich- tropical medicine. In February, ton, and the town of Livingston, learning: Professor of English mond, Virginia, from the early 1930 she sailed from Antwerp TenneRsee where she has done and history, South Kentucky summer of 1918 until the close of and arrived at Matadi from excellent work. In 1938 she plan- College, 1903-05; Professor of the War with Germany. thence by rail to Leopoldville, ned to return to the Congo but German, Richmond College, September 14, 1907, he mar- and from there to our district of due to ill health she was prevent- 1914-1920; Professor of Romance rieb Miss Elizabeth Kilbourn, of the Equator in March. After ser- ed from going. Languages, Transylvania Col- Lancaster, Massachmietts, and ving for a while in the hospital Milligan College salutes Dr. lege, 1920-25; Prvfessor of has one daughter, Elizabeth. in Leopoldville Dr. Smith went Smith and is proud of her Modern Languages, Transyl- Dr. Dingus is one of the rip- to the Lotumbe where she spent achievements, aims, and devotion vania College, since 1925. est scholars the country has pro- sixteen months as a medical to a great cause. Dr. Dingus' literary work , duced. I THE BUFFALO RANGE PAG.8 FIVE

! t bis phase uf appl ,c Louisiana ; ern Christian College, Georgia, taught in Carter County publi c ical Director in the U. S. Public Superintendent R adfo r

Dingus, Leonidas Reuben, edu- cator; b. Wood, Scott Co. , Va. , Jan. 4, 1873; s. Philip Marion and Martha (Bann er) Dingus; ed. pub. r-· ch., Scott Co., Va; B. A., M'lligan Coll., T enn. , 1894; M.A. Univ. of Va., 1907; Ph.D., 1914; Univ. of Chicago; Marburg Univ. of Germany; Univ. of Berlin; Col- umbia Univ., New York. m. Eliz- abeth Fletcher Kilbourn, of S. Lancaster, Mass. , Sept. 14, 1907; Prof. (head of dept.) mod. languages, T'ransylvania Coll. , Lex- ington, Ky. Began teaching car- eer in Scott Co., Va., 1892. Inde- pendent. Christian (Disciples of -:. Christ); mem. U.S. Food Admin- istration during World War, Richmond, Va. Taught French and German, State Normal Coll., Old Administration Building Florence, Ala., 1907-12; German at Univ. of Richmond, Richmond The Tennessee legislature of Institute in 1881 he built an ad- the way it looks today- - our Va., 1914-20, mod. languages, 1866-1867 chartered an institu- dition to these four rooms and present Administiation Building. Transylvania Coll. , since 1920. tion which was to be known as changed the name of the institu- The picture accompanying Mem. American Dialect Soc.; Buffalo Male and Female Insti- tion to Milligan College, in honor this article is a reprint of one Modern Language Ass.; Bradford tute. Among those t.hat signed of a beloved teacher of his, from a postcard which was taken Club; Lambda Chi Alpha. the charter were the grandfathern Robert Milligan. May 2, 1911 by the brother- Author: N ovellen of Theodor of Prof. S. J. Hyder aud Mrs. The first auditorium at Milligan in-law of Professor Hyder, who Storm, 1914, privately printed; R. L. Shepherd. A rather un- College was in this structure. sent it to his mother as the mag. article, ''Rivers as Natural usual feature of the charter stat- It was heated by two big round latest picture taken of the Col- Boundaries," 1921, Sewanee Re- ed that it was unlawful to sell tin stoves placed on opposite lege. view; mag. article, "A Word List whiskey wit11in a mile of the sides of the room and was lighted -Character Building First of All- from Virginia", 1915 ; Dialect institute, the penalty being by wall and swinging lamps. Notes. Office: Tran ylvania Coll. a fine of f\ither twenty-five dol- Over the stage was a huge ban- CHARLES E. CROUCH Home: 422 Davidson Court, Lex- lan-, or fifty dollars half of which ner on which wa::i printed the ington, Kentucky. was to go to Buffalo In titute. words : " Christain Education, Charles E. Crouch grad- The first sessions of the In- the Hope of the World," and uated from Milligan College in -Christian Education, Hope of world· stitute were held in an old log "Character Building First of 1925 with the A. B. degrP.e, then church located on the site of the All." It was here that the first he entered Vanderbilt University Lambreth E, Hancock ·11· · N h ·11 h h h Florence, Arizona,· class of 1913 ,· present church. The contract b as lrn tb a 11 a t M 1 igan was 111 as v1 e w. ere e ad the is pastor of the Florence Christ- for the first building of the Buf- P 1ay e d · M . A . d egree con f errc d upon ian Church-of-the-Flowers and lalo Institute stated that the The building remained the him in 1927. After his graduation ·1 l C 1 and Chaplain of the Arizona structure was to be "so many same then until 1913 when the f rom V an d er bI t ie went to o - . u · · N y State prison; community inter- bricks high and so many bricks original four rooms were demol- umb Ia mvers1ty, ew or1 { . d d d · h 1\, est is the welfare of its people. widen and was to have four ished and another addition City an gra uate wit an 1. room . The Institute was made made. This new part of the B. A. degree in 1928. He is now - R -- of hand-made bricks which were building contained seven rooms working on the doctoreate in the The right amount of switch- dried in the sun, the hollow by and a library, the chapel bein~ University of Colorada during ing has saved mn,ny a boy who the side of the present church on the third floor (the balcony the summer and expects to com- is on the wrong track. having been caused by removing in our present auditorium). The plete work for the Ph. D. degree -- R -- clay for these bricks. The stu- old chapel was then made into a within the next summer. Charles Nature does make mistakes, dents at this time boarded in the basketball court. is now professor of accounting sometimes she puts all the bone village since there were no dor- In :i 917 a fire, which origi- at Vanderbilt University and in the head and none in the back. mitories. nate d m· t h e o1 d chapel; practic- has been there since 1935. A crank is a person who is When Professor Hopwood ally destroyed that part of the We regret that we do not so utterly engrossed in his own came to take charge of Buffalo building and it was rebuilt to have a picture of Mr. Crouch fool ideas that he hasn't any time to go in this issue. to listen to ours. THE ST AM PEDE PAGE SEVEN

Mr. Edward Perin Harry s. 0. s. Madison, Florida PARDEE HALL Continued from page 2) Miss La Due Holliday BY ANNIE MARTIN LAUDERDALE Daisy, Tenn. ------R------Mr. Arthur H. Sammons they have ably and kindly sened Mr. Jacob Tate Hunt On the outside cover of the 306 Loomis Ave. as father and mother to the boys. Crdar Grove, Ga. Range is a picture of Pardee Atlanta, Ga. Pardee H all, an impcE-·ing Miss Esther Hobbs Hall, the present dormitory for Edd Roberts structure, has three floors and a Washington, D. C. the boys. A short history of the Damascus, Va. basement which has al:-:o been Mrs. George Hutchinson present dormitory follows: Miss Gertrude Smith Rudd converted into living quarters 3041 t'edgwick, N. W. Rochester, N. Y. Durinµ; the Christmas holi- for the boys. The first floor has Washington, D. C. days of 1915 a disastrous fire fourteen rooms, having two Mr. C. B. Reynol

I thick and the other a Bible cla~" of which I he r.a me a member while in Philadelphia. May I say right hi~re that President Der- t:iick i., to my mind one of tht: be t, ener1I:etic, hard-working, al- truiRtic Christian men it ha~ evel' been my privilege to b10w, and no praise or gratitude that I might ex)res1, would be sufficient to convey the , incJre apprw,iation I feel for the fr;e r; d he has been to me in making my college education p1Jssible. I mentioned the Eible cla, ". This, I think, ehanged the whole course of my life, a.::i my goal began to change frcm being a suc- ces,ful phys:cian to being a Spirit-directed Bible teacher. As W.R. BOW2R3 THE JOSLIN FAMILY I look back on my life I can ee W. P. BLACKWELL clearly that the Lord has led me W. R. Bowers graduated definitely to this day, and I 136 Cool Spring Street from Milligan CoJlege,June, 19C0; I graduated from Milligan Fayetteville Carolina thank Him and praise Him for 1 N. went to Rural Retreat, Virginia College, May 1917, Ph. B. I was the privileges and joys He has January 19, 1939 as principal of the high school salutatorian of my class. For a allowed me. Upon completion of I can s-::arcely realize that there in September following while I taught school, and thPn my year of post graduate work I almost ten years have passed and remained there in that ca- evangelized for a while. In May, married Dr. Milton Joslin, also ince l received my A. B. degree pacity fifteen years. Since grad- 1918, I was called to the pastor- an osteopathic physician who from Milligan College. Half of uating from Milligan he has at- ate of the church at Colliervills, had started practice in Fayette- this time I spent in professional tended the following institutions: Tennessee, where I ministered for ville, N. C. ,and now we have school and the latter half I spent University of Virginia three four years. Worked under the in home-making. I entered the two lit.tic Joslins- - I van and Ar- summers, the equivalent of one Horne Missionary Eoeiety in Philadelphia College of OstP.opa- nold, 3 years and 1 year old res- semester; Columbia University South Carolina and Alabama for pectively. teach Bible in Sun- thy in 1929 and from the very I two and one-half years. He holds a few years. Served the Forest day School and whenever pos- first lesson in Anatomy to the a masters degree from Columbi1 Annue Church, Knoxville, for sible in the Women's Auxiliary last lecture in Therapeutics I and has nearly enough credits about three years, during which never ceased to be grateful for of the First PresbyLerian Church for the Ph. D. degree. I fane a ibe educational building here. welcome every oppor- the background for study I had I Mr. Bowers has held the was built and paid for. I was received at Milligan, chiefly in tunity to teach or sit in a class position as professor of Mathe- never satisfied with my edu- where the Scripture is taught. Greek and Latin under beloved matics in Radford State Teacher~ cational achievements so in 1928 Professor Wright, a· medical ter- I know the joy of being saved College since 1919. j I entered Vanderbilt University, n:iinology is almost entirely der- and kept by the blood of Christ, In 1906 he married Miss Nashville, spent three years, and and share "the unsearchable ived directly from those two to Brown Eiffert of Rural Retreat. received the M. A. and B. D. de- riches of God'' is my highest languages. After four years of in- She was a former student of degrees from that institution, privilep;e. tensified work I was granted the Milligan College for two years. 1930 and 1931. After this I spent degree of Doctor of Osteopathy. My letter is too long. You Mr. and Mrs. Bowers have two four y9ars with the Hickman and As a side issue I studied Roent- may use any part or parts of it children - a son twenty-three Benton r,hurches, Kentucky, built genography or X-ray in the Ost- you care to, and want to thank I years of age who is working on an educational plant at Benton eopathic Hospital, at the same you for your courtesy in request- his masters degree at Duke and remodelled the auditorium time doing secretarial work · for ing this account of my post-Mil- University, and a daughter and it was paid for. I then served the head of the De.partment of ligan days. summary, it is In twenty-six years of age, who is the First Christian Church, Jack- Radiography which enabled me far more delightful to be Mrs. a graduate of Radford College. son, for about three years, and to pay most of my expenses in Joslin, and "Mama", than to be ;:,he is married but continues have been at Highland Street for Philadelphia - thanks again to Dr. Lumsden! to teach in Salem, Virginia, as three years. some good instruction in typing With very best wishes, am I ::1he is very fond of teaching. I am for Milligan College and shorthand while at M. C. Sincerdy yours, She has also attended Columbia 100% Upon graduation I was awarded Lucile Lumsden Joslin University. a Fellowship in Radiography, so Mr. Bowers says, "we own -Character Building First of All- my fifth year in Philadelphia I -Christian Education, Hope of World· our hom0 and although we do spent in post graduate work in not have a large bank account to duty. We owe much of what that field. Two ''high lights" Life is like a grindstone--it yet we have done, we feel a lot little success i? lif: we have stand out in my memory here- - I can either polish you up or grind of living, consequently plenty of made to the h_1g? ideals an~ one a visit from President Der- you down. hard work and we trust devotion standards of Milligan College.