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Show The Autobiography of Roy Wilson Pres. Bull Fest Club On the banks of teh SanSaba river, near the city of Voca in McCullock county, Texas, there lived a man and his wife, by the name of wilson, James and Mary respectively. On March seventeenth, 1905, the Wilsons received a visitor. True to the traditions of the great West, they housed and fed him and asked no questions. The visitor's given named was Roy. A great friendship sprang up between the Wilsons and Roy, Mrs. Wilson apparently taking a motherly interest in the young man. Until 1908, the Wilsons lived on Tiger Creek, not more than a mile from the San Sabe River; then they moved near Carbon in Eastland County. Roy's first introduction to the intricacies of school life was here, and Thurman school was the institution he attended. Three years of ranch life and one year of school was enough for Roy so he moved to the Pecos Valley, Chavez County, New Mexico, near the city of Dexter, and Mr. and Mrs. Wilson moved too. Although Dexter is near Roswell, the home of the New Mexico Military institute, Roy was somewhat backways about tackling the disciplinary measures of a military school, and so he did not add to his intellectual education while living there. However he only missed on year of school because the Wilson's longed for the southern climate that was so prevalent in the Lone Star State, and within a year's time the teachers at Lost Creek School had the task of teaching Roy three "R's" and keeping him civilized. The next few years Roy spent in acquiring a high school education at Montgomery, Rochelle, and Ranger High Schools. His summers ere spent in many different sections of Texas and Oklahoma. Graduation from Ranger High School was a big event in his life, surpassed only upon being elected captain of the Ranger football team. Throughout the many years of honest toil and hard labor, which comprised his high school career, Roy was only able to convince one person of his amazing talents and overwhelming intelligence. And not wishing to cast bouquets at himself, he never revealed the name of that particular person. ALLEN BLACKFORD In an interview granted our most capable reporter, The Weber Bum, Mr. Blackford stated: "I have looked forward to my sodality with the inmates of your wonderful college reformatory with a great deal of joy and anticipation. To be out in the wide open spaces where men smell like men, and women are so unnecessary, to breath the keen cut mountain air, to scale lofty peaks and commune with Mother Nature. "To get away from the filth, the corruption, the sordidness of big city life, to get away from the vice and evils that prey upon young virgin manhood in the highways and by-ways of Frisco But after the big stink raised during the holidays er er well, I might just as well stayed home!" |