First home away from home
March 11, 2010 (Thursday)
If you like, you can go to the Archives of this blog and find a few series like houses I lived in, jobs I had, and churches I served. Some of them can be found in the September 2007 archives. In that same vein, I will give a few additional details about the towns I mentioned in Tuesday’s blog about where I’ve lived in Texas.
A few weeks before my 18th birthday in 1949, I moved to Marshall to attend what is now East Texas Baptist University. I dearly loved being there in beautiful East Texas in the fall of the year. I went there because my friends from church, Troy Conner and David Foster, were students also. We three roomed together on campus. The Vice President of the school had spoken at our church banquet for graduating seniors (high school), heard me sing and announced I was being given a voice scholarship. It was a marvelous opportunity, but I was allergic to something there at Marshall, and was sick every day with hayfever and asthma, problems I already had but which became worse there. I was absent from voice lessons, practice sessions, and my other classes as well, so at the end of 9 weeks, I withdrew from school there and started over at Baylor, which was on the Quarter system and the winter quarter was about to get under way.
Marshall is a nice town. The university campus has many beautiful, stately trees, alive with color in the fall but beautiful also in the spring and summer months. ETBU had about 450 students when I was there but about 1200 now. Marshall is about the same size (25,000) today as it was back then. Larger nearby cities are Longview and Shreveport, as is beautiful Caddo Lake.
Take a look at Marshall
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