Either as theirs, or both as theirs."
Oh, dear Christian College, we love you, our dear Alma Mater today.
Like a star shining brightly above you, your face shall shine brightly for A.
To you, O proof, faithful and loyal, while ever appalling the right,
and gladly we'll give forth the royal preaches for the purple and white.
Then we'll pledge our love to Christian, to her it's on her due,
while we gayly sing let praises ring for Alma Mater true.
Oh, dear Christian College, we love you, our dear Alma Mater true.
Oh, dear Christian College, we love you, our dear Alma Mater true.
What did you say was the looping the loop? What was that about?
Well, you used to walk the loop after dinner at night in the dorm.
That's where you took your girlfriend and you could hold her hand and walk around the loop,
which went around College Drive to 16.
College Drive to 16.
And sometimes you'd walk twice, and they would sometimes skate.
I saw Ms. Garrett come by on the sidewalk just then, she was an English professor.
This is out in front of the ad building.
Uh-huh, yeah.
There's College Drive.
Left in there was Cobb Coleman on the very left walk in there.
We used to skate around there too, it was pretty rough.
Blue bunnage, lots of blue bunnage.
This is behind the ad building.
Uh-huh, they finally put a croquet cord in there.
That's the Kim Shack, I think?
Yeah, had holes in the floor where the acid had eaten through.
Burn your baby macum.
Going down to eat the...
Chambers?
Yeah, have to ring the bell first.
We sat at the table, three boys and three girls, and we dressed at night.
This is my brother's wife up there, Leola Lawson, standing at the piano at the back there.
She's Leola Lawson from Cardio Local, and there she is right there.
Sam Blackwell right there. Sam Blackwell is an orphan from Bowles Home,
and he was one that did the optimist.
Rebecca Morris, this is one of her big productions.
She has some big ones, and Bob Holden was a big star in those days,
and I think this was probably staged just to take pictures outside, probably.
Because that isn't the set that's outside.
I remember Bob Holden did the biggie, which was Death Takes a Holiday.
That was one of the greatest things I've ever seen, I thought, baby.
Graduation, they marched from the ad building over to the school auditorium for the graduates back in those days.
Later, when I came here, we would march from the ad building, clear down to the...
which is the president's stadium.
Here's film number two.
I believe this was the year that I was out. I came in 34, I was here 34 and 35,
and I was out 36 and 37, but I came back in the next year.
I came back in the year 37 and 38.
Got Holden again, and...
John Holden.
Yeah, that's John Holden.
And I think his name, he was...
Not Robert Holden, that's right.
No, his brother, he was associated with Omar Burleson for years.
His name was Charles Hebrew Roberson's daughter, Catherine.
You think that's a Packard?
It looks kind of like a Packard, yeah.
It's a beautiful car.
This is supposedly Michigan, but it's definitely...
That's downtown Abilene train station.
And that looks like Holden there in the winter.
John Holden was his name, John.
His name is John in the film here, too.
Yeah, John.
John Holden, yeah.
Fancy hats.
Yeah, they all had to wear hats and hoes.
So this is typical dress, I guess, going downtown at least.
Well, if the girls went downtown, they had to have hoes and hats and chaperones.
And this place...
I think this is across the bridge down here on Cedar Creek.
Of course, there's no building to look, and there's no trees or houses out here,
but I believe that's coming up College Drive right there, 16th Street.
But now that's the way it looked out here, just bare.
That's Mrs. McFarland.
She's a darn mother, bless her heart.
Those are the guys wearing hats, too.
Had to have a snap-brim hat, but apparently, too, to infuse.
Okay, that's Mrs. Cogglal here.
She was the girls' dormitory supervisor.
She was tough as nails.
She wouldn't let them play chopsticks on the piano in the parlor.
Cogs and Norris.
Mrs. Bishop was registered.
Lawrence Smith was bursary.
Now, Dr. Gibbs, yeah, we'll show a picture of him later.
There's Cogs, and there's Holden again.
That's John Holden again right there.
Yeah.
Now, I told you John married Hibble Robertson's daughter.
That's Don H. Mars.
And this is my brother's sister-in-law, and her name is Maxine Logsdon.
Okay.
She's from Cordell, Oklahoma.
That's Mrs. Clara Bishop on the left there.
Dr. Adams.
Dean Adams, we called him.
And there's Lawrence Smith.
Lawrence Deliverpool Smith.
And there's Dr. Gibson.
And he sacrificed a lot to be here, didn't he?
Oh, he did.
He just gave his old life days to you.
And the pay was nothing, you know, back then.
That's Whistlin' Charlie Robertson.
And there's Charles Hibble Robertson on the left.
They called him Whistlin' Charlie.
He whistled a little bit when he talked.
That's Collins Smith right here.
He's from Tasmania, Australia.
He said, Tasmania, Australia.
Cooking class, of course.
I'm not sure where that was.
Was that in the ad building, you think?
Uh, yeah.
It was in the ad building.
And it was quite popular.
I mean, boy, lots of the girls took home economics and sewing and whatever it was, you know.
There's Rebecca Marsh right there.
There's that John.
There's Holden again.
He's the star of everything, isn't he?
Oh, he is in this film.
Now, that's Dr. Moorland.
Right.
The gentleman.
Boy's dorm.
Radio was a big deal.
The guy that had a radio was very popular.
Those are suspenders.
Two torn shoes, bell bottom router and suspender.
Now, the football stadium.
This is old ACU football stadium.
And it was right down here where the Williams Fine Arts Performing Arts Center is, along in that area.
And of course, there was no Judge Ely Boulevard, and there's nothing west except pasture.
Interstate wasn't here in our Judge Ely and out of the streets were there.
The fellas were running and we called him.
I think that might be some mouse or something.
Mousey Shalinsky was the guy carrying the ball there.
Now, this drummate, Mousey Shalinsky, he was from Roscoe.
Who's the drum major?
The drum major there looked like David Rose there, but I believe it was Froggy Rogers.
Because Froggy was a little bit fancier than David.
He's pretty fancy.
See, he's pretty fancy here.
That's Froggy.
Very, very good.
That was a pretty good band.
That's your boss.
But you told me later turned over somewhere.
Yes.
This is Saturday Brown.
We were coming from W. O. Daniels inauguration.
And we're saying this is, we're now looking at north or south first as they're turning left.
Yeah.
Now that's Ferris Walker leading the group there.
And the little bitty girl was Patty Crane, D. W. Crane's daughter.
And that's D. W. Crane's son, the drum major.
There's a kitten band.
Which is the campus school band.
That's the kitten band again.
I don't know who the big guy is back here playing.
Leon Reese was in that band.
He played trumpet.
I think this might be on Walnut, I think he said.
I believe it's on Walnut.
I swear the football field that we saw when you looked out from the stage.
This other was a kitten band.
Now this is Leonard Burford in the middle here.
And James F. Cox right here to your left.
I don't know who the fellow with the headphones.
He's from a local radio station.
What's the drum major?
Now this drum major there was Dabney.
Dabney.
John Dabney.
Leonard's leading the Star Spangled Banner there.
We had three drum majors looking at him here.
But the last one I saw there was Dabney from Eastland.
Now this stadium was east of Rose Park.
That was a city stadium.
Not on the campus.
No, it wasn't on the campus.
We played there even after I was here.
We played there.
One knows how little bit of stuff they were.
Little leather hat.
Little leather helmet.
And the football clothes are pretty scampy.
Almost no padding at all.
Yeah, no padding.
Little helmets were just leather.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
