Page Twc
BAPTIST STANDARD
November 4, 1926
Josephine Jenkins Truett
/■'vNE of the earliest recollections out of my childhood
is a visit to my aunt, Mrs. Burleson, in old G. B.
Hall. I was about five years of age. On arriving I
was so charmed with the beautiful girls walking about
the. grounds that I carelessly allowed some one to slam
the gate on my thumb and it was badly crushed. I did
not cry, for the girls were all around me, and I didn’t
want to be thought a baby. I shall always remember
I grew up loving the dor¬
mitory girls and their every
interest has always been
though they hallow the place, but it must come by in¬
dividual desire and effort to find God's approval and
guidance. Beautiful to say, that desire for God’s ap¬
proval is evidenced day by day within Baylor’s walls
when a group of students meet to ask God to make
them right stewards of that day's precious hours. Again
one evening a week another group importune the Iieav-
When I was old enough 1
entered the primary depart¬
ment of Baylor, then Waco
University. All of my educa¬
tion was received from this
As a girl from 11 to 15 my
greatest joy was slipping into
the dormitory and listening
to the giris tell of their trou¬
bles and their joys.
Girls in those days had
their love affairs just like
they do today— not so intense
probably, but just as inter-
The very strict regulation
for the dormitory girls would
cause a riot today. In those
days the girls had to go to
study hall every night for one
and one-half hours. Every
girl must be there unless she
had an excuse from the "pre¬
siding ; teacher.”- or dean as
is called today.
regulation that I
cannot forget was that all
outgoing mail must be sent
to the mail box' of the dormi¬
tory to bo censored. Letters were not always read, but
great care- was taken to- make sura that ' t-lje girls Were
not corresponding with any gentleman friepds, and one
could never ‘tell when one’s letters .would; be read.
Slipping notes to boys or letters to: the city post
office for dormitory girls was a seriotiSf offense. My
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER ROLL CALL, GEORGIA BURLESON HALL
Maiden Name Year
Dora Collings . . _ . - . - . - . - . 1906-07
Minnie Sanders - — , - - — ...... - 1901-05
Alice Bell 1— .
И Г.
‘ . -
Maude Cowden _ _ _ ... .1900
Dollic Boggcss _ _ . .189 & 9-S
Sallie Trice - - - - -
Mary David Barton - ... - - . .1890-92
Grandmother Sophie Nott . . — -
Present Name Daughter’s Name
Mrs. Sam Means..-— _ _ -'—Kathryn Means
Mrs. E. W. Curling .. 4 - iMipelma Curling
Mrs. F.
4Ц
Carroll - 4— '. . kiiFrances Carroll
Mrs.
В.
H. Blakeney—.' - C_t__l_LSttth Blakeney
Mrs. J. M. Shelf ield._.Margarct and Gebfgilene Sheffield
Mrs. W. L. Trice - Eula Lee Trice Carroll
Mrs.- John S. Tanner (deceased) — , - Aleph Tanner
Mrs' E. W. Parker . . . . .Lorena Parker
Baylor’s Memorial Dormitory
Kate Lattimore Spencer
/~\NE pleasant afternoon last spring I drove out to
Baylor to sec Mrs. Viniug and to secure some
needed information regarding our memorial dormitory.
I went to her office in the main building, but she
was not there, so I stood in the corridor awaiting her
return, the while watching with much interest the stu¬
dents rushing from one place to another.
The door of the room adjoining was closed, but, as
the upper half was of glass, I could easily see what was
taking place in there.
Mothers, fathers, let me tell you what I saw! Stand¬
ing with bowed heads was a group of young men and
women engaged in earnest prayer to their heavenly
Father for help and direction in their daily tasks.
I could not hear their words, but as I stood there,
silent and awed, I knew they were oblivious to the out¬
side world as one after the other they told Him what
they most desired, and I could feel that they were pray¬
ing for Baylor, its students and the needs of the insti¬
tution they so much loved.
Aftef a short while they came out of the room and
hurried away, each going to the waiting duty w;ith re¬
newed interest because of that little talk with Jesus.
When Mrs. Vining came and I told her what I had
seen, she said that every afternoon at 3 o’clock every
boy or girl who wishes to do so may come to that
room for a season of prayer. And many do come.
I have thought much of that incident and of the
far-reaching influence of those prayer services. No won¬
der Baylor men and women encircle the globe with
their Kingdom work!
Into our hands God has given these daughters of
ours and at our hands will. He require an
our stewardship.
with Christian
with Christian teachers who
live the Christ life, where
Christ is magnified, where it
is an honor to serve Him,
even if they do not already
love and serve Him, they will
be led by precept and exam¬
ple to follow His leadership
and let Him be their Guide.
Because I know so well what
Baylor is and what it means
in the lives of the girls who.
come, I plead with the women
of Texas to make it possible
for more girls to come to
Baylor University and receive
the spiritual uplift of these
prayer services and all . the
other activities which girls
need, and must have, if they
are to become the Christian
leaders of this great state of
Help build the ’ memorial
dormitory. Help now and
hasten the day when Baptist
women can point with pride
to the magnificent building
filled with haj>py, busy girls,
and say:
“This is our. work.”-
The Heart of Baylor’s Memo¬
rial Dormitory
Iren? .Barbara, MarsChall, Dean of Women
THE ground wtiereon thou’ standest is holy ground” —
* this is what we pray and believe will be the feeling
about the cliape! of our proposed memorial dormitory.
It would be a just tribute to the donor to call this room
the Mother, White Chapel, but we hope that whatever
the inscription over the doorway designating it as a
chapel will' be only an outward symbol, ‘while the very
atmosphere will Speak its true message! .
The spirit of Mother White’s own gtacious character
will abide there in loving benediction to generations of
university girls. This will be an appropriate place for
the Book of Remembrance wherein are inscribed the
names of all the donors to the building of the memorial
dormitory. Then it cannot be otherwise but that the
personalities of those memorialized will give an incen¬
tive to higher endeavors and accomplishments. “We are
compassed about by. so great a cloud. .of witnesses.”
Perhaps even . the unfulfilled - yearnings, -and the half-
realized dreams of themothers will there; in the younger
generation, find a beautiful completion. It is not beyond
the imagination at all that ennobling thoughts and ideals
will be born, here which will make each individual life
richer and sweeter, and then. reach beyond itself to see
a vision whifcli will embrace the whole world.
This ideal cannot come through ’memories alone.
cnly Father for His love, and yet again members gafli.cr
from each class on Sunday morning to ask that the
Father’s business may be well performed that day.
What are the sources of this interest? One of the chief
sources is the two college classes in the near-by
churches. Mrs. E. D. Head is the teacher of the class
at the Seventh and Janies Street Church and Mrs. J. M.
Dawson teacher of the class at the First Church. Two
nobler women could hot be found than these, and it is
their inspiring messages on Sunday as well as their
daily lives that have helped to make Baylor women
conscious of their privileges as well as their obliga¬
tions. These teachers are already enshrined in the
hearts of Baylor girls, but here in this chapel many
prayers of thanksgiving will go up for the inspiration
of their lives.
If for no other reason, this chapel would be worth
while in that it will provide a place for meditation —
that fine art that we fail to indulge in because of press¬
ing duties. We will have here in this Mother White
Chapel a place hallowed in so many ways that it will
conic to be, a true Baylor shrine, “holy ground.”
The General Chairman’s Voice
on Early Dormitory Days
v
