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Local Author Alumni Touched By Adopt A Block Program on Campus
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street. She can see the university
from the window of her bedroom a
Features Editor memories from her own college
When Gladys Hume received an experience spent on the campus
invitation to a Thursday luncheon years before. Gladys is an alumnus
at The Friendship House she graduating in the 1930s. She loved
decided to seize the opportunity to art having always excelled in
meet and mingle with friendly drawing and painting; she declared
neighbors over a homemade meal. Art as her major with a minor in
She admits that visitors have been Education. Since earning her
scarce lately but her attendance at degree she has worked thoroughly
the luncheon has inspired her new in both fields. She is the author of
friends to change that. Gladys lives three books one of which is enti-
in a house near the corner of her tied Wild Flowers and Folklore
and focuses on the various flowers
in Texas.
"Flowers are so beautiful that
you can't help but stop and look at
them" she says.
Her illustrations adorn the pages
of this book as well as another
book that she authored and co-illustrated
entitled The Cloud Circus a
collection of children's stories.
Her paintings are hung on her
walls as a tribute to her talent and
personality. In the corner of her
bedroom there is a table stacked
with books magazines and stray
sheets of paper. Among these are
Hilt I'Sl'i y
77te Cloud Circus and Wfrf Flowers and Folklore Humes two latest
books. Photo: Christa Cantu-Harrison.
I didn't take writing courses so I articles and stories. She loves to
think I've done pretty well despite talk about her writing because it is
that" she says. a craft in which she takes great
After college Gladys moved to pride. She encourages young writ-
Encino California with her hus-
band William who is now
deceased. There she taught at one
Author Gladys Hume. Photo
courtesy of herself.
of the Milton Berry Foundation
the many publications to which she schools for handicapped children
has submitted articles and short sto- When she returned to Abilene she
ries throughout the years. continued to write saving a copy of lessons she has learned throughout
"I loved English in college but eacn publication that printed her her 89 years of life.
ers to develop their skills and to
publish their works.
Gladys greets her vistors with a
smile and entertains them with sto-
ries from her past. She is not afraid
to share her opinions as well as the
Freshman Impressions: A Final Farewell to A Rewarding Freshman Year
Rebecca Heard
Layout Coordinator
I learned
to doodle
last week. It
was a hard
thing to
learn espe-
cially for a
control
freak like
I continually asked myself
discovered that I've been holding time to figure things out and to con-
myself back as a student a friend tinue to develop. I have at least
and a person three more years to change mature
This has been a wonderful year and learn all sorts of new knowl-
of growth. As a freshman I have edge.
learned to understand basic biology I came to Hardin-Simmons as a
and design how to get into the caf naive freshman a tiny thread in the
without your one card and when to fabric of life and only a slightly
avoid the lawn because of timed bigger thread as a part of this uni-
sprinklers. I have learned to break versity. As God uses me and I grow grow and to share my thoughts with
out of my comfort zone and to in Him I will continue to become you.
write my last column as a freshman
and shall pass on my beanie to a
newcomer. If I have inspired or
entertained you even a little I have
succeeded. I hope your year has
been as rewarding and blessed as
mine. I leave you now but I will
return next year a slightly less
naive sophomore continuing to
me.
make friends with those I would an intregral part of the beautiful
what I wanted to draw instead of otherwise shun. My relationships tapestry that the people of the
just drawing and letting the picture with both people and God have world create
form itself. I refused to allow my grown and changed; however there It has been a rewarding year a
self to let go of the control and to is still much that I have to learn. good freshman year with few
allow myself to grow as an artist. I I am fortunate to have plenty of regrets and many fond memories. I
APRIL 192005
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