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Ol' Main Dust
November 6, 1974 11:45 p.m.
^©Ray Waugh, Jr.

If you look, you will see very
  small sparkles in the sandstone chip
    left from the hewing of the symbol
     of my Alma Mater --

The sparkles are my friends who
  studied ...
    cried ...
      thought ...
        fell in love ...
          felt loneliness ...
            made decisions ...
               took lone walks by the 32 lamp posts ...
                  hoped ...
                     prayed ...
                       found God's will ...

People are our University Experience ...
frail human beings relying upon God's help and
looking to Him for strength.

Dr. Brooks, you and I are by-gones ... yet, those
  who came before ...
    who will come after ...
     and those who remain are all
Dust of the University Experience

The H-pond has changed color ...
There are no more biology specimans ...
In fact, the real H2O with all the
  slim
    spiders
      fish
        leaves has been replaced by more efficent
           and cleaner paint ...

Yes, in life the colors often change ...
Yes, in life thoughts change
Yes, even sometimes friends change.

BUT, the H-pond is still the H-pond. Even though, now,
there are only memories of frogs, fish, flowers, leaves,
newspapers scraps, sticks and rocks.

We have memories of the many people who make

"OL' MAIN DUST"

I want you to know that I am happy you had part in these good days for me. You may not be aware of your part ...just know that your part was real and important.

the classes ...
the frustration ...
complexities of being ...
the great thinking walks around campus ...
the people ...
the teachers ...
I do think the people are best.

"And when upon my couch in vacant and pensive mood",

       I'll smile & thank my God for the

Howard Payne Experience

Can there be hewing...
without a few scattered chips,
reminisent of rouch and non-formed, un-tooled rocks?

...leaving family ... trips home...work ... library ...fun ... spillway .. walking...
...searching for self...St. John's ... walking ...
...looking out tall window during class...gym...love ... graduation ... turn around day...

Go to Ol' Main Remains

NOTE: Ol' Main Dust was given to Dr. Roger Brooks, President of HPU, on the day before he left for Houston. I presented him with a stone chip from the hewn stones from a flower beds around Ol' Main and a rose.

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