Coit Yancey may not be an alumnus, but he’s been an avid TCU supporter and fan for decades, partly because of his lovely wife Jane Olive Woodbury Yancy ’45, who passed in 2003.So when Coit saw our request in the Fall 2011 and Winter 2011 issues for donations of TCU yearbooks, he decided that Jane would have happily contributed her four annuals — 1942-1945 — to the magazine office. They are now part of our growing collection of Horned Frog yearbooks, which are used frequently for content in the magazine.
Inside one of the volumes were the items shown above and below: A program of the Graduating Exercises from 1945, a program from the July 1, 1945 worship services at First Methodist Church in Fort Worth and two copies of invitations to the Commencement Exercises held at “eight o’clock at the Honeysuckle Arbor,” — one of which has a deep purple cover made from thin, supple leather.
The 64 graduates that year earned either a Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science, some receiving a Bachelor of Science in Education, Physical Education or Commerce.
Deans Colby D. Hall (who also offered the invocation) and Cortell K. Holsapple invested the three who received graduate degrees, including Milton E. Daniel, who earned the “Degree of Doctor of Laws.”
If you have any Horned Frog annuals you would like to donate, contact us at tcumagazine@tcu.edu.
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I'm putting my own TCU Museum together, so I love stuff like this. Some of my more interesting pieces (so far) are my 1939 Yearbook (Davey O'Brien and the national champs), a postcard from 1910 showing the old Waco campus, and a signed copy of Colby D. Hall's History of TCU.
ReplyDeleteHoping to get all this stuff into my fledgling Facebook page in the near future.