This is one of my favorite photos in the book.

The guy on the left is Robert Larry Riedel, a pre-vet major from Florida. He passed away in 1967, two kids. His wife survived him by 50-plus years.

The next guy over is Herman Smith. He's listed as a pre-law junior. A quick search doesn't yield much definitive about him. Blame the last name. (No relation, by the way.)

The third is Bill Cook, a veterinarian in Tennessee for almost 60 years. He died in 2016 at the age of 91.

On the far right is Louis McClain, also a pre-vet major. He died three years later, age 24.

I love the photo because of the women leaping into the future. Helen Walden, left, was a local girl studying aeronautical administration. She was married for 50 years before she died, in 1997.

Then there is this confident, look on Wyleen Hill's face. She sees it all before her. A native of Dalton, Georgia, she was a senior and a pharmacy major, one of only two women to graduate from the program that year. She worked in her father's pharmacy and helped start a school for children with developmental disabilities in 1957, a concern that is still in operation today.

She died in 2010. The second sentence in her obituary noted her smile, still radiant even into her later years. It also mentions her additional work with another health care foundation. It looks like she has six children and five grandchildren. Wyleen sounds like a wonderful woman.

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