The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-23
BOOSTS COLLEGE
CAMP FOR GIRLS
Former Student Writes That Reerea-
ton Camp Can Be Built
With Little Help.

| To the Former Students Of the Florida
| State College for Women, Wherever
! They May Be-
Dear College Friends:
| This letter Is not personal, but be-
| cause I know it will so into the hands
! OF a great many girls who were IN
! school with me and girls think OF so
| often. cannot resist the temptation OF
| giving n personal greeting. 1 have yet
| TO find something that equals the thrill
! OF meeting uD unexpectedly with some
| Of the girls who were laboring with
| their college education when / was
! Maybe we don't remember each others
names, but we have something in
| common right on. So here's q greeting
| to each of you. and the hope that YOU
! are each on the way toward accom-
| plishing the thing you wish most t0
! accomplish.
! You cannot imagine what a pleasure
| it is 10 live so near the college, where
l can in a measure keep up with the
changes. Honestly, l feel sorry for
| you who live so far away. because be-
! fore you know you viii be old fogies
| sure enough. You won't know thing!
| Why. East hall has burned, the new
infirmary is finished, and they've laid
! the foundations for a new dormitory
just beyond Reynolds, and they've let
the contract for a science building
where East once stood. haven't time
to write all they are doing, but If YOU
want to recognize the place you had
better come back quick. You will
| mourn for the old days and old friends.
but at the same time you viii rejolco
in the progress our college IS making.
One thing that they want and need
our help in getting is the FlastacowO
recreation camp at Lake Bradford. I
know some of you are bachelor maids
and some of you are married women.
possibly with little Mary and Johnny
to look after, but II possible I wan
you to forget It all for a minute. arl
Just think what such a camp v-oUd
have meant to YOU when you Werein
college. Think OF getting in the OIL
lege truck, and riding out to the AXE
{ TO spend the week end in the college
hut. Can't you picture crowds OF
friends in warm weather JaItns a
swim in the moonlight, and getting up
early in the morning TO take another
before sunrise? But the best picture is
in the winter time Can't yoa see the
roaring fire in the fireplace and the
whole crowd sitting OF the floo", sing
ing. talking. roasting marshmailow5--
in the morning fussing about who IS
going to burn the breakfast, ana get
ting n boats and rowing out on The
lake?
Now, the girls are working for jJst
such a camp and with just a little help
they can nave it, They have almost
enough to begin the building and now
IL we. the Big Sisters. will only step
in and help them out they can finish IL
and furnish it. Surely there is not a
girl who reads this who can't by hook
or crook get her hands on a dollar 10
send for this purpose, o. who can't get
some friend sufficiently interested to
send a dollar. The more people who
contribute toward this cause. the more
people who have an interest in IL, the
better it Will be for the interests OF
our college all over the state. IN a
few days l hope TO hear that the dol
lars are pouring in from the interested
old girls and other friends.
Listen. don't get out Of touch with
the college altogether. Come up whel
you can. As | said, you will miss the
old faces, but surely your love TO-
the college is based on something
deeper than the presence of the girls
you used to know. One of the best
WAYS TO keep in touch with the college
is to contribute something TO help her
i'm her progress, and this is your oppor-
tunity.
Sincerely yours,
MARY WOOD DAVIS.
Class 1920.