The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 14, Ed. 1, Thursday, January 10, 1924 Page: 1 of 4
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ABILENE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE THURSDAY JANUARY 10 1924.
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PRESIDENT SEWELL
BAN CUPID REAPS HIS
ANNUAL HOLIDAY CROP
OF AX.C. EX-STUDENTS
NEAR A DOZEN MARRIAGES OF
INTEREST HERE ARE
REPORTED.
SOME COME ASBIG SURPRISES
Results of College Life In A C. C.
Arc Many; Marriage Is An
Important One.
Dan Cupid' annual holiday inroads
upon the ex-students of Abileno Christian
College reaped him a bigger harvest thl
year than usual and a number of marriages
have been reported here.
The marriage of Miss Essie Maye Duller
of Putnam and Mr. Jesse Overton '23 of
Thorp Springs came as a great surprise to
their former schoolmates here. The cere-
mony took place hero during the holidays
and the couple have gone to live in Hunts-
vllle Texus where Mr. Overton is a teach-
er in the High School. Mrs. Overton has
attended A. C C. for three years while
her husband came -here after having been
graduated from T. S. C C and received
his degree here last June.
The jnarriaae of Miss Marie Adkisson
25 to Mr. C. II. Colo of this city on Jan-
uary the 3rd was also a shock to many
Miss Adkisson formerly resided here with
her parents Mr. and Mrs. Adkisson who
now live in San Antonio. The romance
began during the time that they lived here.
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dencc after the honeymoon has not been
announced
Foy Weathers of Pritchett Texas a
student here last term was marrled'to Miss
Erby Moser of that place during the holi
days.
A wedding which united two graduates
of Abilene Christian College who are well
known among ex-students was that of Mr.
Roy Johnson '20 and Miss Hazel Watkins
20. The wedding took place at the J. U.
Johnson home here during the holidays
and Ihe couple have gone to live In Chicago
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Sears Koebuclc I. M. t-. A. ue nas
been identified with this work for several
years. Mrs. Johnson was known here as
one ot the most charming laaies oi n
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with success as a teacher. Her parents
reside here.
Tho marriage of Miss Susie Lanier for-
mer student here and Mr. Randolph an-
other ex-student became known here just
before the holidays. Particulars are not
known. The couple are now teaching
school.
The marriage of Mr. Flavil L. Colley of
Dallas and Miss Kate McKenxie of IHUs-
boro which was announced before the
holidays took place at Hillsboro on Uirttt
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mas eve. Uev. U. A. Lotiey tamer oi iun
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groom were both students hero for three
years and were well known.
Mr. Roy H. Lanier and Miss Curtyce iu here Efforts will be made to arrange
Mitchell of Waxahachie wero married there two games each with Clarendon and Way-
on the evening of December the 20th. The j.nj j order that six games can be played
groom is minister of the Church of Christ on tie lrjp to Canyon
in Waxahachlo and is well-known among Tl0 complete schedules for all three
A. C C Alumni. They are residing in major port. are as follows:
Waxahachie Elmer L. Nifhols of Fort Football
Worth roommate of Roy'a through college September 26 Howard Payne at Brown-
here said the ceremony which united the vood.
couple. October 1 West Texas Normal at Can-
0 yon.
Roy Cogdlll preached at Mt. View and November 1 John Tarleton at Abilene.
Hobart while 'at home Christmas. He November 11 East Texas Normal at
preached at Silver Saturday night twice Commerce.
Sunday and at Colorado Sunday night November 21 Trinity at Waxahachie.
c Tlianksglving Daniel Baker at Abileno.
CARD OF THANKS
We desire to express our sincere '
thanks to all those who wero so good '
In manifesting the Christmas spirit
toward us during the recent hours of
bereavement which came with the
death of our husband son and brother
.EE.Wced. May God'a richest bless-
4teg st upon all who helped and
""comforted us.
tr Mm. J H. Weed and Family.
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REAL SCHEDULES ARE
GIVEN WILDCATS NOW
NUMBER OF GAMES IN FOOT-
BALL BASEBALL BASKET-
BALL IN T. I. A. A.
BASKETBALL OPENS MONDAY
Advantage of T. I. A. A. Membership
Wnran Tit IiMnrniritm Afr Tti
Seen By Improvement In
Schedules.
Representative T. I. A. A. schedules for
the 1924 basketball baseball and football
seasons wero arranged for the Abilene
Christian College Wildcats by Coach Vic-
tor Payne while in nttendance at the T. I.
A. A. session in Dallas recently. Abilene
Christian Collego applied for membership
in the body and was elected unanimously
by the members thus assuring representa-
tive schedules in all branches of sports for
Wildcat teams during the future.
So far the football schedule for 1924
is incomplete but it will likely be filled out
to a full eight or nine-game schedule long
before the team swings into action next
fall. Five of the games slated aro with
T. I. A. A. teams an excellent example
of the benefit that comes with membership
in that organization. The sixth same is
ill mat uiHaitiMiiiiiiii iiiu b.. ft..w
wlili Tnlm Tnrleinn. a return booking of
the clash with the junior farmers at Ste-
phenville on Thanksgiving.
factor that is distinctly pleasing to
Abilene football fansJs tho slating of the
Daniel'Sakcr Hill BlUlcs" to meet the Wild-
c(tg here on frhanksglvingvDay. Simmons
cfllg ncro on ;uaiiKsmiigvivaj. jiuuuuu.
Howard Payne in the Turkey Day fray.
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ti0 Daniel Baker meeting on the last Thurs-
day of November an annual affair thus
two Abilene college teams will go against
two Brownwood college elevens on that
day each year.
Tin. Howard Pavne Yellowiackets. the
trickiest and most subtle teum in the T. I
A. A- is probable the hardest team tho
Wildcats are slated to meet during the
year. Booked for September 26 it will
likely be a season opener for both of the
mntrmlinc elevens. Trinitv. East Texas
Normal and Canyon Normal are the other
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j. t jw teams on mo wi'ocai .wituu.o
All games with the exception of the Dan-
iel Baker and Tarleton clashea will be
away from home.
Representative T. I. A. A. teams are also
on the schedule of tho Wildcats in base-
ball and basketball. Twelve basketball
games have been booked for January and
February of this year eight of these be-
ing for tho local court. Ten of the games
billed so far are with members of the inter-
collegiate athletic body. Efforts are being
made to add Wayland to the list in order
that four games might be played on the
trip that will carry the Wildcats on the
Western trip to play Canyon Normal.
A full bill of sixteen contests roako up
itin Wrlinll season next serine. Twelve
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four of them are to be played in Abilene
though tho addition of other teams to the
schedule possibly may bring a greater mini-
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January 14-15 East Texaa Normal at
Abilene.
January 18-19 John Tarleton at Abilene.
January 21-22 Canyon Normal at Can-
yea. February 4-5 Sam Houston Normal at
Abilene.
February 8-9 Howard Payne Collage at
Brownwood.
February 21-23 Howard PayBe at AW-
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Atj1l9-10 Daniel 'Baker at Abilene.:
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RECORD CROWD PRESENT
FOR SUNDAY EYE SERhON
The attendance at the Sunday night ser-
vice was the best for regular Sunday night
services since Brother Shepherd lias been
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Brother Shepherd chose as his theme
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spired of Cod Is also profitable for' teach-
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traction which is in righteousness: that
the man of God may be complete fur-
nished completely unto every good work."
'The thing that stamps the Bible as be-
ing of divine origin is thnt the most stu-
pendous thing in the whole book f dealt
with with brevity and calameM The scene
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yon at Abilene.
April 22-23 John Tarletoti at Stephen
vllle.
April 24-25-Danlel Baker at Brown-
wood. May 12-13Wet Tmsm Neraaaljat Canyon.
May 19-20 Ea Taws Nsmal at Com-
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May 21-22 Sowakssit Tea Nraal at
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May M.H-NJWJfW.l at
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PRESIDENT JESSE P. SEWELL
SEWELL
T.I.A.A. TRACKMEET
BE RED IN THIS CITY
Abilene was selected as the Icoatioa of
the annual T. I. A. A. track meet that will
be held next spring it waa announced by
k V PL.fiJIu of 6lmmMn. ill aatiliit nf
the organization on his return from the
annual meeting in Dallas recently. The
members of the association will be tho
guests ot bimmow and the Ahuene uirw
tlan College the latter being admitted to
the T. I. A. A. at the last meeting.
The second Friday n May is tho date
set for the track meet The tennis tourna-
ment will be held one week previous to
that time.
Thirteen colleges two of wlilch are in
Abilene make up the membership of the
T. I. A. A. and all of these will have rep-
resentatives at the meet. This is the first
time the annual event has ever been
brought to Abilene.
Present plans as announced by President
Chandler aro for holding the affair at the
West Texas Fair Park. That is by far the
best track in tho state and due to the al-
most perfect condition of the track and
location of the grand stand the meet
should be of the highest order that has
ever Lean held.
RESIGNS
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WINTER TERM BRINGS
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MANY NEW STUDENTS
PRACTICALLY ALL OLD ONES
RETURN FOR ANOTHER
SCHOOL TERM.
Attendance at Abilene Christian ' Col-
lege is said to be larger at the present
than at any time this year. Practically
all those enrolled during the Fall Term
have returned or aro to return in afew
days while over thirty new students have
Leen enrolled for the Winter Term.
Among those who are new here are:
Maxine Pecvey Route 3 Abilene; Edgar
Smith Wichita Falls Loreno GIpson Tur-
key Texas; Mrs. Lillian R. Adams 276
Pecan St Juar.a Jane Reeves City J' Ar-
villa Ohlhausen City; Worth Walden
City; Ethie Smith Zephyr; Madge
Lewis Rule; Mrs. True Jackson Abilene;
Opal Johnson City; Edd Arledge City;
Terrell Jackson Florence Texas; Cora
Ross Idalou; Jewell Copeland Bowie;
Irene Moy Coleman; Irene Tldraore Wil
son. Okla.: Virgil White. 1'eacocK; jonn
Knox City; Vernon Wood Dallas; Robert
w i w..i.n T.nn- Ttw Fmr.
Rockwood Texas; Logan Hammon Spice-
wood; Rosa Dawkins City; Forest Baker
Troy; Calvin Dean Obion Tcnn.; Ben
m-.... i wt ninnv Tiwrnln; and Fov
Reed Winters.
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EX3TUDENTS HOLD
DINNER AT BAIRD
TEACHERS' INSTITUTE BRINGS
MAtfY TOGETHER FOR
MEETING.
An event which served to put A. C. C
verv much on the man was a dinner given
at the Hawk House in Bakd la December
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... i connected'wltWTCMriatlaii Kh0ol In Den-
county One of the principal 1 aen him to San
the program was Dean H. E. Speck. He Angei0 0 rec0erTfrom tuberculosis. After
reports having met the following ex-stu- winninB a seven year fight with that dis-
dents of A. C C who are row teaching ease he came to Abilene to build Abilene
in Callahan County and who enjoyed the Christian CollegeX boyhood ajm to be-
dinner together: Bailey Joiiwon Floyd come a ociojjAimy A.
Phillips Essie Butler Mrs. 'Jesse Overton hen he was om&ctevJtg$iffi-.
Lorena Sikes Ada Sikes CUivs Slater blindness. HU life hasibeenTconstant
Mrs. Earl Sister Luclle Walts" AUeen battle ogainst pain and disease and during
Brewer Lois Stevenson Alice Hamilton tho past year he had suffered very much
Byrd R. Lewis (Continued on page four)
LEADER IN BUILDING
OF COLLEGE TO RETIRE
AT END OF THE SUMMER
HAS ESTABLISHED A RECORD
"3 NOT EQUALED IN TEXAS
EDUCATION.
ISREGRETFULLY ACCEPTED
Failing Health and Heavy Burdens
of the Office Are the
Reasons Given.
The most astounding news that ever came
to Abilene Christian College was the news
of the resignation of President Jesse P.
. Sewell and his wife as heads of the col-
lege to take effect in August at the close
of tho summer quarter. Announcement
was made that the resignation had been
presented to the local members of the
Board of Trustees at a meeting held on
the evening of December the 27th and
again on December the 31st and that it
has been very reluctantly accepted after
much discussion.
The announcement rvas first made
through the local pri s then in the col-
lege by Financial Agent Phillips and on
yesterday morning Piesldent Sewell spoke
of it in an address before the college.
President Sewell recommended that a
new organization be effected among the
men and women now connected with the
institution and that no outside man be
called to head the school It has been
.announced war
this
advict. will
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college will
re-organization
be taken ud at tho annual
unttilnt 1 I
meeting of the Board of Trustees of the
college which is to be held here during
the final week in February.
In handing in his resignation President
Sewell gave as his reason the bad state
of his health and the excessive burdens
of the office and he further explained his
posiuuu ami 111c icbbuii m mo uuuicoo v
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tution when one man could not take care
of maintaining the school on its own in-
come and in view of the fact that he had
for twelve years undertaken this he knew
from experience that he would always have
to do this as long as he held the position.
Knowing this to be impossible he handed
in his resignation but in so doing he states
that he Is not quitting Abilene Christian
Collego and that he and his wife will be
with the college in all things that must be.
done in order to maintain the continuous
lht hg com)j ffl . durng Brother
a(mInlraion He tAti lhat au
Sewell's administration. He asked that all
those who wish to thank them for what to
him seemed little that what had been done
for the college to do so in helping to ad-
vance the institution. The greatest grief
that could come to them he said would be
the sight of Abilene Christian College
going backward and not forward.
Jesse P. Sewell and his wife became
President and Dean ofWoraen of Abilene
Christian College in the Spring of 1912
and at that time the college possessed
115.000 in material equipment which had
a debt of $6500 hanging over it. At this
time the college possesses property and
equipment to the value of $350000.00 and
Is clear of debt. The Institution in 1912
was a non-accredited school teaching noth.
Ing beyond the high school work. In two
years It became an accredited Junior Col-
lege and in 1919 was made a first class
A-plus Senior College. The curriculum of
the institution has been expanded tremen-
dously and the past year has seen some
seen some great additions to the scope of
work offered. Before coming here Presi-
dent Sewell had been successful as a gos-
pel preacher. He still is regarded as one
of the strongest men in the Church of
riirlut In the rjulnit. He had also met
with success as a dealer in real estate and
In the mercantlleJUwlness. Hq had been
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The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 14, Ed. 1, Thursday, January 10, 1924, newspaper, January 10, 1924; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth91277/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.