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^ Suiulay Sc IkmiI Supcrintfn(i(»n^ Annt. Suin'i'intenilfnt Secri'lary. i . . . . Axst. Sccrntar.c. \ Trftiisuri'r - {— Y. >1. C. A. \ - F’lVHidpnt V'ic‘ I’rurtiilunt Sfcrctary ^ AmsI. Sfcrotary Trt^.i-^iiror Chairman of I’rotrram (’oniniitton Faculty Ail\isor Y. >V. (’. A. I’rewiilent Sec rotary Asst. Socrotary Chairman of Projfrani Committt i; Trefi»iir«r i’rof. H. Mins Kva .1. I,e\\i« . Addifi Murphy LoiiiMii Man! . v I’rof. A. L. I(‘Hti! Percy Tillef Siitton Six'nci.. . William Wa^.l Alexander DaviH i!(>«ton C.herry .lohn .lone** IJev. .1. T. Doles Ot(‘lia Williams A(idi« Murphy Mary Louther Catherine Lassiter P)lon(lena Nichols Miss A. L. Alston PRAY Kit SKUVICK FACTS The oxcellant attendance of the students and faculty at tho prayer service on Wednesday aft ernoons is evidence enouKh that these services are very much appreciated. Tht* meeting on October 17 was very impressive. The leader stressed the thought, sincerity in jfivinK of ourselves, our time, and our money is based on love. At this meeting as at all others, the theme of the service is strengthened by niusic chosen and directed by Mrs. .1. W. Brown. 1 (.UESS ME Upon a small island I was born. In the year of 1!M1, and there 1 lived until I was eight years old. P.etween the a^es seven and eiKht I had the typhoid fever, hut with good tr«!atment from the doctor ami my parents 1 soon recovered. During the spring I went to F’hiiadelphia to live with my aunt. My first week there I entered James W. Logan school. With hard studying I soon completed the first four grades. 1 was then sent to George T. Smith School and finished the fifth and sixth graiies. Transfers were given us to attend a .Junior high school and I went to \’are Junior High. How strange I felt when entering a school .."ith one hundred and fifteen in one class and only three Negroes, two boys and one girl. On Decem- i>er twenty-eighth of the same year I was taken sick with pneumonia and was unable to attend school any more that term. The next summer I was sick again and had to go to the hospital to undergo an operation, therefore 1 was unalile to attend school That year. The fall of ’2S I entered Vare Junior High School once more, and iiow sad I was to look around and not see one of my old classmates. I was in a class of one hundred and tweiity-tive and I was tlie only Negro. I iiniflhfd ttie scvcnlh and eightli grades in a term and a half and lh«!U I eutercul W.lliaii) Penn High for the ninth grade. I allemiiid liirtui months wium 1 hail ti leave on aci'ouut of eyi! trouble, and I WHS unatile to return. After hj death of my mother in ’2G, J came South to complete my education. Tiie fall of '27 I ‘'it* red State Normal School to try the ninth gradi* or.. lore, Fortunat. 'y I completed that year's work "n(i I am tioi)ing to linish the woik prciscribed for ■ liigh school. • • • One of those luckless children of fato, an orphan! M'. '■pther died wlien 1 was six weeks old; niy mother diew . 'e year and nine months later. So you see I have 1 «n without father or mother from infancj’. I nave i»een the innocent cause of much trouble between my motiier’s family and my fat ji-’s family. My mother’s family wanted to keer and ho did my father’s family. It was finally y law, that my father’s family should have oic. Many people have characterized me as b .ng Md beyond my years. 1 have also been told that I r very self-conscious and nervous. Out door sp. * are my special hobby. I am fond of going to schr and I am especially fond of reading good literatiu- My life has not been an eventful one. 1 live nov» in the same city, and in the same house in which I was born. I began going to school at the age of five and now I am in the third year high school clas' I am not extraordinarily brilliant |n the class room. I entered this l)usy world many years ago—Decem- t)er 12. 1!)12. THE ADVENTl’RES OF A RING In a gold-bearing quartz rock in the United States I was born over a half century ago. From small rock particles and gravel I was separated by washing with streams of water through a trough lined with coarse cloth. As I was too soft to lie used alone, I 'vas alloyed with copper and made into an eighteen Oirat gold ring. I was shipped to a large jewelry store just a week before Christmas and purchased by a very rich lawyer, Mr. Brown, as a gift to his wife. I was worn very often, but during my leisure moments I was kept in a cozy little jewelry box to myself. One night 1 was worn to a grand reception and there was admired by everyone. I did not fit Mrs. Brown’s finger very snugly and conse|uently I a!-' ways had the fear that I would be lost. My fear was realized this evening for I slipped from her finger and fell to the floor unheard by anyone. ! lay there the remainder of the night, but was found the next morning by an honest servant who quickly gave me to owner of the house. Later in the day my owner came to inquire for me, but the host of the night before, thinking he could get a large sum of money foj* me, said he had not seen me. I was very unhappy with him, but in a few days my sufferings were ended. My new owner, not knowing what the step would mean to him, took me to a pawn- shop owned by a son of Mrs. Brown. The son recngni/ed me at once and immediately called his mother. Tlie man seeing nu other way out told the li’utii and gave me back to my first possesser. I wa-i hapjiy to get buck to my cozy littld box, and tlui’^ I often think of niy ud- ventures. Thcdoslft Coston.
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