PROPHECY OF THE SENIORS
OF '36

   We are very proud of you, Seniors of '36, and we wish to contribute something by which we may show our appreciation for the gifts we have just received.  May we through the following show you how interested we are in your future life.  For three long years we have watched you and admired your abilities, so we take this time and space to make known to you the places in public life we expect you to fill in the few brief years to follow.
   First our thoughts turn to Elsibeth Gallaway.  In only a few years may we see her gracefully filling the place of "The First Lady of the Land."  With her poise and dignity we know she will very successfully measure up to all qualifications.
   To Bates Mays we next turn.  When our dearly beloved Freshmen register at our state university to continue their educational careers, we will expect quite a few of them to sign up for a thorough course in Spanish from El Senor Mays.
   The same Freshmen will probably come in contact with another of our beloved Seniors at the same institution of higher learning, especially the girls, for we expect Margie Bell Poston to be our future Dean of Women.
   Of all the Seniors who are qualified for their jobs we think Frances Buckner will fill the bill.  We think there will be no better clerk in the town of Henderson.
   In Mary Waltman we see the future movie star, for who could have acted the part in the "Flapper Grandmother" as she did other than a future star of the stage.
   In our estimation, Rayford Allen will make the Babe Ruth of tomorrow.  His interest and ability in athletics we know will cause him to go far in that field.
   If any of us happen to have the bad luck of getting hurt or being sick, may it be our good fortune to have as our nurse none other than Edna Mae Poston.
   The small children of the rising generation we are sure will be thoroughly instructed and supervised by our able future supervisor, Miss Lucy Holleman.
   When we want a good home-cooked Sunday dinner is a good home environment, we will immediately make an appointment to visit our old friend, Agnes Bradbury.
   For Fred Holleman we see the most outstanding merchant Laneville has ever known.  We believe he will put Laneville on the map as a commercial center in East Texas.
   None of the future citizens of Laneville should ever be afraid of not being able to obtain an excellent lawyer in case they should ever need one, for the tenacious arguing of W. A. Sprague we believe, will cause him to reach the top in the legal profession.
   For Lottie Woolverton, we see a very promising future as a stenographer for some financier on Wall Street.
   As we walk into the library of our dear old S. F. A. we find the outstanding librarian none other than Elizabeth Bradbury.
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EDUCATIONAL NEWS and EVENTS

   The State of Wyoming has passed a law to rid the state of wild horses, which have been running on some of the ranches and eating food which might better support cattle.

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   Emil Hendrick, of Washington, Missouri, expects to attain fame and fortune by frog farming.  In his own back yard he has already brought up a couple of hundred which he sells for prices ranging from $3.75 to $12 a dozen.  His ambition is to raise eighteen thousand frogs to the acre.
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   The little country of Albania has never had a currency of its own, so money from every country is welcome and circulates freely, but the dollar is the favorite.  Albanians have to be skilled in the value of the various kinds of foreign money, and they are, but for them money is money, and there are said to be some Confederate States of America notes still circulating among them.
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   The candlefish or eulachon is said to be as mysterious in its habits as the salmon.  It appears in fresh water only once a year for about three weeks' time on the Pacific coast.  This fish is very rich in fat.  In the spring the Indians of the British Columbia coast catch them by the millions, store them in bins for a few days, and then boil them in water in great vats, collecting the fat which they use for butter.  During the month of March, they store away enough to supply them with butter for a year.
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   Over two hundred and fifty years ago, a South Carolina minister set out a few plants of the first of the species Azalea Indica brought to this country. He planted them at Charleston, South Carolina, to "see if they'd grow."  The spot now known as "Magnolia Gardens" attracts hundreds of visitors daily during the spring from every section of the country.
   These gardens comprise twenty-four acres of multi-colored azaleas, camelia, and wisteria, and ten acres of velvety green lawns bordered with giant water oaks.  The oaks were planted in 1671 by the original owner of the estate.  This estate belonged to Reverend John Grimke Drayton, and is still in the hands of his descendants, although many acres have been sold because they were found to possess valuable minerals.
   The first azaleas were sent to Reverend Drayton from Pennsylvania following their importation from the Orient.  The winters in Pennsylvania were found too severe, and he was asked to see if they would grow in South Carolina.  They did grow.  They were the beginning of the beautiful Charleston gardens with their almost endless variety of blossoms.  Some are pink, others crimson, white, lilac, blue, purple, etc.  More than one hundred people are kept busy the year around caring for the plants--The Pathfinder.
 

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