The Coyote (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 20, 1945 Page: 2 of 4
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THE COYOTE
Editor’s Column
THE COYOTE
DEAR DAD:
Published Monthly by Weatherford College
in
and you know, after
Faculty Advisor
Miss Beryl Sullivan .
We would like to add that Jane E.
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Chorus, which gives college credit from Southwestern in February.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR
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WISHING YOU A
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Sturges-Allen
Headquarters For
SCHOOL SUPPLIES
been suggested that
“Editor’s Column”
Carlene Linehan
Juanez Walker
Johnetta Sager
Billy Jo Woods
Betty Barber
Ruthie Johnson
It’s always hard for me to say
Just what you mean to me each
day,
Your first kind word, your pleas-
ant smile;
Has made my life here seem so
worthwhile.
LILLIE MAE RICHARDS
RUBYE STOCKSTILL ..
MAXINE MOORE .......
GLYNDALIN FROST . . .
few nights ago. I think the thought
is as beautiful as its author.
1. There is a KING with a MAS-
TER’S degree.
2. ILA MAE read the COLLIERS’.
3. WILL IS not a FRADY cat.
4. WY ONA BERYL, a gem, that
has such a high PRICE.
Mrs. Childress
Directs Two
Departments
Since her coming to Weatherford
College in 1936, Mrs. Knox Childress
"O little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see the lie;
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep,
The silent stars go by:
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting Light;
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight.”
School students are also enrolled, church, was also included in those
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HAPPY NEW YEAR
Orchid Gift Shop
West Side Square
..........Editor
Associate Editor
. . Chapel Editor
. Feature Editor
I love you,
LILLIE MAE
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Browder’s
Confectionery
108 West Side Square
Ben Franklin Store
Stuart-Wren Drug
Drugs—Cosmetics
Lunches and Fountain Counter
Jo Ann Faulkenburg and Juanita Thomas
..............Business Managers
Entered at the Postoffice at Weatherford, Texas as
Second Class Mail Matter
Mr. Joe Saylor, Ph.D, and family
spent Thanksgiving holidays with
Dean and Mrs. Carruth. Dr. Saylor,
a former teacher of W. C., is now
an instructor in government at East
Texas State Teacher’s College, Com-
merce.
REPORTERS
Roy Gene Elders
Burkie Wheeler
George Letson
Berniece Fowler
Joyce Bell
Monteen Gilbert
Melba Matney
In addition to her class room
teaching, she is Choir director at
the Central Christian Church and
Superintendent of the Young Peo-
ple’s Department there.
Being a very congenial and jolly
the sponsor any senior class would'
be proud of. Mr. Childress, her
better-half (sh! but he paid me for
this plug) is always on hand to
share, as well as provide fun at all
just i the stream.
-- 6. After the BELL rings, our class
will‘sing “JUANITA.”
7. Neither SAVAGE NOR MAN
may have a CRUM of bread to eat.
8. We must LET SON walk on a
STR ATER road.
It’s really friends like all of you
Whose deeds of kindness have
helped me through,
So in some way, may our God
grant,
That I, a good seed can someday
plant.
Daddy, I’m sleepy. Maybe I can
think of more W. C. news to tell
person makes Mrs. Childress
Mrs. Childress’ mother, is the third
member of the Childress family.
She is a very entertaining person
and a lover of good music, and just
full of fun.
Mrs. Childress, W. C. is proud of
you!
we have an
As usual, I’m in trouble. Do you
think I’ll ever get past the “stage”
may I call it, that I won’t be needing
your help? Yes, I can just hear you
saying you doubt it, and—oh, well!
To get on with my problem, it has
the W. C. activities. Mrs. Vivrette,
$ 1
MUSIC OF CHRISTMAS
Music is one of the most important phases of the Christmas
celebration. Most people do not realize just how important it
really is; they seem to take it more or less for granted. Our
Christmas carols, hymns, and songs tell the entire Christmas story
in beautiful music. Several of the songs are traditional; Christ-
mas just would not seem the same without them. “Silent Night”
and “Adeste Fidelis” are two of these songs.
Nearly all our Christmas music is folk music, or at least writ-
ten in the style of folk music. In other words, the music has the
characteristic of expressing the emotions of the people at Christ-
mastime. The mode of expression of Christmas music is through
“carolers,” people who go around during the season, wrapped up
in all the clothes that they can manage, singing the carols to the
tops of their voices.
The stories behind the carols or their origin are very interest-
ing and the story of “Silent Night” is one of the most interesting.
The words were composed by Joseph Mohr; the music by Franz’
Gruber.
It was one Christmas Eve night in 1818 at a party in a small
German town. At this party, held at the schoolhouse, Joseph
Mohr met his friend, Franz Gruber, an organist. During the cele-
bration, Mohr left the room. Later, when the gifts were to be
exchanged, Mohr came back in carrying a small piece of paper
which he presented as a gift to Franz Gruber. Gruber unfolded
the paper and read aloud the poem:
“Silent night! Holy night!
All is calm; all is bright.
Round yon virgin mother and child!
Holy infant, so tender and mild,
Sleep in heavenly peace,
Sleep in heavenly peace.”
The people were overwhelmed with the poem, and Gruber,
after acknowledging the gift, retired to his room and composed the
music to the words. When he returned, he, Mohr, and the Stras-
ser sisters, two young ladies present at the party, sang the song,
Mohr sang the tenor; Gruber, the bass; and the Strasser sisters,
the soprano and alto. This beautiful song of which both the mu-
sic and the words were a result of the spontaneous inspiration of
the Christmas season, has resulted in a universal song which is
probably sung more than any oter. The climax of any program
seems to come when “Silent Night” is sung, usually at the last.
The words of “Joy to the World,” a paraphrase of the ninety-
eighth Psalm, were written in 1719 (about a hundred years before
“Silent Night”) by Izaak Watts. The religion of England was at
the lowest ebb it had been in years. Watts tried to start a revival
with this poem. All the words are written in the present tense;
this adds to the glory and the beauty of the song.
“Joy to the world! the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King!
Let every heart prepare Him room,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven, and heaven and nature sing.”
Lowell Mason, the father of public school music, found the poem
and tried to write the music for it. Being unable to write any
music that he thought worthy of this poem, he looked to Handel’s
“Messiah” for a theme. The first theme of “Joy to the World” is
taken from “Lift Up Your Heads” from the “Messiah;” the second
theme, from “Comfort Ye My People” from the “Messiah.” An
interesting note is that the first theme is a descent of the major
scale in D.
“Adeste Fidelis” was written in the early Eighteenth Century
in Latin. In the Nineteenth Century, Friederick Oakley translated
it into English. The composer of the song is not known, but it is
believed that he was a hymn-writer and a priest of a private cha-
pel of a wealthy French family. It was the custom, in those days,
for Roman Catholics, who were wealthy enough, to maintain their
own private chapel on their estates. Over forty translations of
this song have been made, but the most used is Oakley’s.
“O come, all ye faithful,
Joyful and 'triumphant,,
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.
Come and behold Him,
Born the King of Angels:
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ, the Lord.”
“O Little Town of Bethlehem" was written by Phillips Brooks,
an Episcopalian preacher. Even though he is of the Episcopal
Church, all churches claim him. He has three wonderful memor-
ials: The Trinity Church, the St. Gauden’s statue of him, and the
third is found everywhere—the wonderful tribute paid him by
churches. The tune was written by a Sunday School teacher and
organist of his church. The words were inspired as Brooks look-
ed down from a hillside upon the town of Bethlehem.
Mrs. Childress directs the W. C.
degrees. । along with Helen.
Eighteen W. C. students are en- :
rolled in her voice department and Sisserson, daughter of Rev. C. H.
a number of Weatherford High1 sisserson, pastor of First Methodist
9. JO ANN DOROTHY are
SMART.
10. On the BRINK (of a) LEY in
BRITAIN have BEN flowers.
11. Are you MERRY (MARY) JO?
12. A FOWLER deed, I’ve never
heard.
13. This material WIL BURN.
14. To MORR IS more objectional
than utter destruction.
Who’s Who
5. We shall WANDA in the
'BLOOMING DALE and WADE in
from Southwestern,
She taught at T. W. Stanley । w A T 1 • 7 1 D
School for several years. Then she2n Uur EngiIsh iD
went to Junior High School where I •
she taught until she came to W. C.(ace
She directed the Senior High School •IC-9
Chorus when she taught in the Jun-
ior High School.
thus honored. Jane will graduate
“The First Noel” (French) or “The First Nowell” (English)
came from Western England and was found in 1833. It is not
known how long it existed before then. It is truly a folk song as
the music and the words are both very simple, using some of the
dialect of the people.
“The first Noel the angel did say
Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay
In fields where they lay keeping their sheep
On a cold winter’s night that was so deep.
Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel,
Born is the King of Israel.”
“It Came Upon the Midnight Clear” was written by Edmund
Sears (the words) and Richard Wallis (the music). It gives a
complete story of the Christmas event.
“It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth,
To touch their harps of gok :
’Peace on the earth, good will to men
From heaven’s all-gracious King.’
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing.”
W. C. EX IS IN
WHO’S WHO
In the list of those elected to
Who’s Who in American Universi-
ties and Colleges at Southwestern
University at Georgetown, Texas,
was the name of one of our former
students, Helen Rebecca Tidwell.
Miss Tidwell was graduated in the
class of 1944, and will receive her
degree from Southwestern in June.
Helen has been very active on the
campus, even though she is one of
the busy workers in the Registrar’s
office.
Election to Who’s Who is one of
the highest honors that can come to
an undergraduate student. Those
elected have been under the “watch-
ful eye” of a committee of the fa-
culty. Eligibility is based upon the
student’s character, s c h o larship,
honors attained and the extra-cur-
ricular activities in which the stud-
ent participated.
All of us will rejoice with Helen
in this high honor and are proud of
the fact that she received her early
college work here in Weatherford
College.
Weatherford College is also hon-
ored in having Mr. Richard Tooley,
our popular Business Administra-
tion Instructor, named in the list of
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has made for herself a reputation
that can not be excelled by anyone.
During these nine years she has
done much for the betterment of
the college. Besides teaching Voice,
Music Appreciation, Education 310
and 335, she organized the Public
School Music Department and the
Chorus. The 335 Education Class
sponsored the Christmas Banquet
for the college. They made all the
decorations and used natural de-
corations (cedar, pine cones, red
berries). Next semester the Public
School Music class will be “Methods
of Teaching Public School Music,”
the Music Appreciation class, “Music
History.” The first half of Public
School Music (“Introduction to Pub-
lic School Music”) will be repeated.
Mrs. Childress studied Voice from
Mrs. Laura Jones Feusell, a former
member of San Carlos Opera Com-
pany, at Carr-Burdette College at
Sherman, Texas. Later she studied
from Mrs. Helen Fouts Cahoon and
Fagney-Cote at T. C. U., where she
received both her B. A. and M. A.
over, I just wonder if I could even 1
make an article of that type inter- .
esting. If the co-editor insists, I ;
may try, but gee! I wish you were I
here to help me as you used to in 1
arithmetic. Remember what a time
I had with the multiplication table?
We are all looking forward to the
Christmas holidays. Most of the
students whose homes are out of
town are planning to spend the holi-
days at home, of course, and some
of those living here in Weatherford
are making plans to visit relatives
and friends during those days. It’s
fun to watch the girls in the dorm
mark off the days until the time to
go home. I guess we are living like
Seneca said “Each day is as if it
were a thousand years.” Of course
Mary isn’t that way; she says the
days fly by for her! (She tries to
mark off two at a time.)
Tell mother she should have
heard Mrs. Childress sing “The Old
Rugged Cross” not long ago at the
First Methodist Church. It just
couldn’t have been more beautifully
done.
Miss Sullivan has been unusually
busy lately, it seems. I really don’t
see how she gets everything done
that she does. She is always cheer-
ful and sweet about anything, tho,
no matter how busy she might be.
Dr. and Mrs. Bushnell seem to
have enjoyed their trip to Austin
that I was telling of in a former
letter. All the Home Ec. girls adore
Mrs. Bushnell. The International
Relations Club met not long ago,
too. The speaker was Dr. Bushnell
and I might add that the talk was
surely something to think over.
I think Dean Carruth is just about
as busy as a man could be. He is
i always “on the go,” and we think
he is just about “tops” as a dean.
Speaking of busy men, Mr. Tooley
' also manages to keep on the go be-
1 tween his classes and basketball
games. Incidentally, we’ll be see-
ing you in February when we play
Clifton Junior College.
Dr. Engelmann’s speaking choir is
to be in the program here Wednes-
day. They have read at three
churches in town and are gaining
quite an excellent reputation.
Jacqueline, Frances Wallace’s lit-
tle daughter, has been by Couts
Hall several times recently. We’ve
all fallen in love with her because
of her winning ways.
We almost froze today when we
went to the laboratory for chemis-
try class. It’s worth getting a little
cold, though, to be in one of Mr.
King’s classes. He is always so good
natured, everyone admires him.
Every student who is taking
Bible, taught by Rev. Ohman, is de-
riving from it great pleasure and
much benefit. He is a great favor-
ite on the campus because of his
friendly, sympathetic nature.
Mrs. Queen, who has been ill with
a cold, is feeling better. She’s
grand in the respect that we can al-
ways find “sought-after help” in
anything by asking our “dorm”
mom.
Daddy, I’ve just about run out of
writing material, but I want to
leave with you this poem Beth
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