Bulletin: Hardin-Simmons University, Ex-Student Edition, April 1944 Page: 2
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Religious Emphasis Week
Observed At H-SU.
March 5th to 10th was the annual
Religious Emphasis week on the campus,
with Dr. W. R. White, former H-SU presi-
dent and now editorial secretary of the
Southern Baptist Convention, conducting
the services. The services were held each
morning at 9:30 and each evening at 7:30.
Student directed prayer meetings were held
in each of the dormitories.
Dr. White's messages, which were group-
ed around the general theme of "Youth,
Christ, and Tomorrow", proved timely and
fitting for H-SU during 1944. He presented
these messages in his true sympathetic
way from the fullness of his own experience
and knowledge of God and of human nature.
It seemed quite natural to have Dr. and
.iMrs. White on our campus, and the faculty
and students are very grateful to them for
Luei" successful visit at this time.
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iavy Commission To
_I Murphy
Elton Murphy, former Hardin-Simmons
University football player, has been com-
missioned a lieutenant, junior grade in the
Navy.Brothers Now In Different
Branches of The Service
F-ank B. Waters has been promoted from
firs, lieutenant to rank of captain and mov-
ed from his station in Sicily to a base in
England.
Captain Waters, now operations officer,
is a navigator on an Army transport and
has seen service in many parts of the world.
He received his wings in Coral Gables, Fla.,
near Miami, and has been in foreign ser-
vice two years.
His brother, Ensign Millard (Doc)
Waters, is serving on a transport battle-
ship somewhere in the Pacific. Doe received
his commission at Northwestern University
and has been in the service since April '43.
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Lt. James Jones Listed
A Ik -e I_ 1A .Murphy, traveling stores auditor for N As lle in Actlon
West Texas Utilities Co., reports April 15
at the University of Arizona in Tucson for Considered by the War Department as
two months indoctrination course. killed in action is Lt. James O. Jones, Jr.,
Murphy was seeking a commission in the a pilot of a Flying Fortress. He was listed
Navy's physical training program when he as missing over Western Europe on Jan. 7,
Navy's physical training program when he1Q +,, - - - -- . ,-applied but deck officers only are being
granted outright commissions at present,
and he will go on duty in that capacity.
Murphy played tackle three seasons,
1935, '36, '37 at H-SU.
Mrs. Murphy (Ann Mary Gafford) and
the couple's only child, a 5-year-old daugh-
ter, will remain in Abilene until Lieutenant
Murphy completes his work at Tucson.
O
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ted Lost1943, ana the war Department notified has
parents stating that persons missing over
12 months are listed as killed in action.
From a letter received in Dec. 1943, it
was learned that Lt. Jones and his crew
took off on a mission and before their des-
tination was reached, visibility was zero,
and they were forced back. In the opinion of
the letter writer, his plane was lost and
ran out of gas, forcing the crew to bail out
into the sea.
Lt. Jones was married in August '42 to
Sybil Williams, who is now employed in the
air corps engineering department of San
Antonio. He received his commission in JulyS-Sgt. George M. Gafford has been miss- 1942 at Lubbock and went overseas in Sep-
ing in action over Austria since Feb. 24, his tember '42.mother, Mrs. J. W. Weems, 1930 North
Fifth, was informed by the War depart-
ment Friday.
Radio operator on a Liberator, Sergeant
Gafford has been stationed somewhere in
Italy. He sailed from West Palm Beech,
Fla., Jan. 4.
Sergeant Gafford, who would have been
21 in April, was a student in Hardin-Sim-
mons University at the time he entered the
service, in November, 1942. He was trained
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NEWS IN BRIEF
Mary Nell Taylor is secretary and direct-
or of music at the Istrouma Baptist Church,
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Jack Scott, publisher of the Cross Plains
Review and mayor of that city, is to enter
the army in early April.
Nolan (Skinny) Walter of Albuquerque
left recently to enter the Navy.Something New Takes
Place On The Campus
On St. Patrick's Day, March 17, some-
thing new took place on the campus-All
Student Day!
Not only was this day for fun and frolic
but it had as its main purpose to create a
better understanding <and spirit between
students and faculty.
On this day the teachers were the students
and the students taught.
The following rules were announced by
Boyd Robertson, president of the student
body:
1. Each class, or the teacher selected a
member of their group to be professor.
2. The student chosen was responsible
for a serious class presentation.
3. The material covered was designate.
by the teacher.
4. No 'cuts were taken, and no classes
were given "walks".
The students also replaced the adminis-
tration for the day. These persons were
chosen from the student body or student
council. Boyd Robertson acted as Dr. Rich-
ardson, Ira Allen as Bill Ledbetter, Gene
Eppler as Dean Walton, John Hurt as Ass't
Dean Stephenson, and Gruver Dixon as1
Dean Campbell.
The extra-special chapel program was
quite amusing,, for after the program had
started, who should walk in late but Dr. At-
wood, Dr. Moore, Mr. Burnam, Dean Camp-
bell, and Mr. Arrant, all eating do-nuts and
ice cream cones. The student body cheered
loudly to know that the faculty could be
such good sports, and one could feel after-
ward a friendlier attitude existing between
students and faculty. The chapel program
which was a success had Eva Rudd as Mas-
ter of Ceremonies, Howard Golden as
chorister, Aubrey Stephenson, Otto Watts,
Bill Ledbetter, and Rupert Richardson as a
male quartette, Edwin young as violinist,
and Otto Watts as flutist. All these "stu-
dents" showed much talent and preparation.
The day was climaxed with a student-
faculty party in the Corral that night. We
might add here that all the women teachers
went back to their teen-age days by ac-
cepting dates with freshman boys.
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FORMER STUDENT WINS-
trate on their respective targets free of
fighter opposition and in protecting the
group in the most vulnerable stage of its
attack.
"Although his plane was damaged by en-
emy action, he destroyed one enemy med-
ium bomber and in addition damaged and
probably destroyed one enemy fighter. His
courageous conduct was in keeping with the
highest traditions of the United States
Naval Service."I
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