Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-31

was at the Curry School OF EXpres-
sion. Boston, and while attending the
summer institute of that school at
Ashyille, North Carolina, she decided
that she would locate in her chosen
profession in Texas. 1t was While at
the summer school that she learned
of an opportunity to come to Maine,
and Immediately signed contracts
with the seminary which has since
held her allegiance,-far to ,he
north eastern extreme from the
Lone Star State of Texas.
An Athletic Girl
The daughter of the national com
mander of the Legion in the seventh
year of its service to the veterans
and the nation, is a real athletic
tyne. Her 1.-the carriage and the
sparkling CLINT in her soft ebrown
ewes bear testimony to her love OF
sports. She declared that football
aroused her keenest enthusiasm
and that is easily understandable
when it is borne in mind that she is
the one daughter of a peerless mill
tary engineer, strategist and cap
tain of finance, Who in the struggles
of the battlefield and mart of COM
merce has time and again crossed
the finish line of achievement a, WIN
ner.
She is enamoured of the winter
sports, both indoor and in the open,
and of course excells on the pol1shed
surface of the basket ball courts.
During the exercises OF commence
ment week at Kents Hill Seminary
since Miss McQuigg has been
member of the faculty. her mother
came on from Cleveland for several
glorious June days with her daugh-
ter, and Mistress Pauline con-
fidentially confided to the inter
viewer that she made a valiant eff
fort to convert the maternal parent
to the state of the daughters adop-
ton.
But mother suggested rneaningly
that there were schools in Cleve-
land and Ohio, she gleefully con-
tinued. Though of course 1 entire
Iy missed the inference, when it
presaged an effort to take me away
from my beloved Kents HIP.
Kents Hill Seminary observed its
Centennial during commencement in
1924, and treat outdoor pageant
was presented by the students and
faculty reviewing the founding OF
the institution and it's one hundred
years Of progress and history. Miss
centennial pageant and directed it's
presentation.
Tells Reason For Fathers Nickname
The daughter proudly recalls the
days when America was modifying
to throw her man power and re-
sources into the World War on the
side of the hard pressed Allies, and
related the incident which gave the
new National Legion Commander the
descriptive sobriquet of "Go-Gettum"
McQuigg.
"Of course mother finds II difficult
to reconcile herself to so expressive
an appelation, but 1 think it aptly
characteristic. Dad had been a Lieu
| tenant Colonel of the 112th. En-
gineers and had served on the
| Mexican border. Then came the
| World War and in 1917 he was COM
missioned a full Colonel with orders
| from tie War Department to recruit
| his command to wartime regfmentai
strength. OF course many other
| army units were seeking enlistments.
and someone asked Dad how he was
going to get so many recruits In the
short time allotted. He replied, We'll,
l guess I'll have to go get them.
And the nickname has been Go-Get-
| tum' ever since.
\ In speaking of her fathers long
| and varied service in the military.
Miss McQuigg let the reporter in on
a little family secret.
HE ran away when he was mere
youth to take the entrance exami-
| nations to the military academy at