1937 Dr. Jim Jackson remembers his days as a student.

During fall revival, there were a number of student prayer meetings held on campus. One group became greatly concerned about the spiritual life on the campus. The leaders decided to show this concern by marching on the campus. The group marched around the Administration Building each morning singing songs as they marched. On the seventh day, the group marched around seven times. Some campus cynics wondered aloud if "they expected the walls of the Ad Building to fall down!"

Who can forget the choir trips to Northern California churches in the spring each year? As members of the Men's Glee Club we traveled in a Dodge bus. The motor area was painted orange and the body was green: thus, the Green Hornet! What a time we had on that old bus with its low straight-back seats. Professor Walter Hildie conducted the choir from the piano. This was often a challenge in some of the smaller churches, which provided only a heavy up-right piano. Sometimes, Erwin G. Benson, director of Financial Development would be the bus driver. We always were taken to the home of church members to sleep, have breakfast and return to the bus at the church the next morning. Then the Green Hornet was off to another town in the Valley!

One spring, the Debate Squad, under the direction of Professor Robert Clark, was traveling to the College of the Pacific in Stockton for a Speech Tournament. We stopped along the highway for a stretch and a quick snack. I'm not sure of the sequence that produced this incident, but I assure you it happened! One student was peeling an orange and someone dared Inez Cooper (now Inez Robinson) to put the whole orange in her mouth! She was known as a good debater and a fast talker. Inez took them up on the dare and believe it or not, she put the whole orange in her mouth! There was no way she could eat it, but she won the dare! By that time, we were all ready to get back in the car and travel on to the Tournament.



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