Here are a few members of the Glee Club, an all-male group back then. There were about 30 members, but these guys had instruments! This is actually the mandolin club.

They are Beverly Holmes Swango, a senior from Birmingham who was studying electrical engineering. He wrote poetry in the campus paper. He died in 1977, in Florida. Simpson Roland Foy was born in Eufaula, the older brother of James Foy, who generations of students knew and loved as Dean Foy. Simpson's wife was the great-great-granddaughter of Georgia's first governor. Fred Almgren was born in Massachusetts. He would have a son, Fred Jr., who would become a pioneer of geometric measure theory and a global leader in geometric analysis at Princeton.

Richard Yarbrough was a freshman. He buried his son young, and then buried his second wife in 1977. He died a few years later, in Arizona. Robert Lee Simpson Jr., I fear, might have died very young, in 1926. Frank Russey was a sophomore, from Anniston, Alabama, studying electrical engineering. It looks like he had two kids, and lived to see 1989. He's buried in Alexander City, Alabama, in a cemetery not too far off the highway that I drove up and down when I was on campus.

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