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Page 8 PLACE FOR THE PENNANTThese two well-aged pennants recently were donated by Alumnus Lee Wiley Burch (BS ’75) to the Office of Alumni Relations. Bearing the insignia of East Texas Normal College, they must date back before early 1917, the year “State” was added to make the school’s name East Texas State Normal College. Pictured on one is Old Main, the facility founder William Leonidas Mayo had built in 1907 to house administrative offices, classrooms and an auditorium.
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| Dear friends, I am a proud Alumnus of East Texas State University, having graduated from there in December 1975 with a BS degree in Agricultural Education. I taught agriculture for 19 years and am currently self-employed with my own construction business here in Newcastle, Texas. One of my friends, Mr. Chuck Smith, found these old banners at a garage sale in Lubbock, Texas back in 1973. Chuck is a graduate of Texas Tech University, but please don’t hold that against him! He gave me the banners for my collection back in April. I would be honored to present them to you. Please display them with the same pride that I have for ETSU. Sincerely, Lee Wiley Burch, BS ’75
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| when it was time to downsize
her household and move into an apartment, Lula Mullins, the 1930’s
graduate pictured below on the left, was ready to throw her college
scrapbook away. However, one of Lula’s caregivers, Jamie Pratt
(on the right), encouraged Lula to donate it to the University. Archivist
Jim Conrad says it’s a valuable addition to the campus collection
because Lula saved a variety of items, including campus photos of
historical interest. One is of the house rented for University presidents
before the one on campus was built. Another page, pictured below,
features a
paper pennant that Lula hung in her dorm room.
under those humongous hats, pennants are worn as sashes. The three unidentified students were at the train station, probably about to board for a trip to a football game in the early 1900s, says University Archivist James Conrad.
0ne Alumnus, Ted Crim (BS ‘70, MS ‘71) finds pennants from his Alma Mater so fascinating that he has had several sets framed and donated to various campus offices—including the large pair shown below.
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An Alumna’s granddaughter—and virtual namesake—has donated artifacts from her grandmother’s days at East Texas Normal College, the name under which A&M-Commerce was founded in 1889. Corrinne Roddy Wolfe says she’s always felt an affinity for the grandmother she never knew, Corine Broadfoot Roddy, who is pictured in the back row, fourth from the left. After Corrine’s father died, she began to go through the family keepsakes. |
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Among them she found several photos, letters and cards referencing ETNC and decided to return them to the school. Among the items she donated is the picture at left. It’s a 1908 photo of the Amothenian Society, a literary club, with members holding a homemade pennant. Corine was a student of oratory, which today would probably be called drama. In fact, Archivist James Conrad says it’s possible that she was taught by the wife of founding father William Mayo, Etta, who headed the department of fine arts at ETNC. Another photo pictures Corine in costume for a performance. In it she is decked out as a man wearing a bushy mustache and bowler hat. |
