A Mother's Story

This is a story I often heard my mother tell and I thought it might be of interest to your publication.

She worked at the Panhandle-Plains Museum while attending West Texas State College in the 1930’s. During homecoming one year, Boone McClure, the museum curator, hoped to have 100 visitors through the museum that weekend. He promised my mother and the other student who worked there a special treat if they could get that many to register. The treat he promised was an ice cream cone.

We wonder how many college aged students would view an ice cream cone as an incentive today?

Peggy Martin