Word: wilford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilford Cook Saeger '04, whose signature graced tens of thousands of Bursar's Cards, has resigned as Bursar because of ill health, after holding the position for twelve years. Saeger has been kept from his work in Lehman Hall since early in the summer because of illness...
...must to all men, Death came last week to Wilford B. Smith, editor and publisher of the once-famed Pitchfork and a mighty man in North Texas...
...parttime minister and farmer of the Black Lands, Wilford Smith went to Dallas as a boy, attended a Moler barber college, graduated (so he said) cum laude. Back in his home county of Delta, he worked in a store, cut hair on the side, studied at night, became a country schoolteacher. Said he: "The only weak moment I ever had was when I played croquet with some old-maid schoolteachers, one of whom I married...
...Wilford Smith grew older, his friends died off. As he grew poorer, he made friends with stray dogs. He kept them on mattresses in a spare room, bought them tags and food. Said he: "They make grand boarders. They are always on time for meals." But his oldest friend was liquor, and this friend did him in. His funeral was conducted by the Elks ("my church") and the Bill of Rights read over his grave...
Surprise No. 1 was sprung by Retiring-President Russell Wilford Tench who suggested that traditional requirements of two years of college and four years of dental school be lowered for "sub-dentists" to practice among the poorer sections of the populace. "With only three years' dental school training, and no predental college courses," said Dr. Tench, "we could attract the boy who might otherwise stay on in his town and become a mechanic at the garage. [He could perform] simple fillings...