1964 Quadrangle - LaGrange College

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Oct. 8,1963
Dear Mrs. Burgess,
I thank you for your nice letter. I feel much of a has­been in the LC Alumni Association, especially since I
have learned that so many of my classmates have passed on to their reward. My son, my daughter­in­law and I
have recently made a trip through LaGrange to Macon, Ga., to see my sister, whose husband died in August.
We went through Roanoke, crossed over the new bridge, came into LaGrange down Vernon St., where I used
to know every pig track, and I was as completely lost as tho' I was in Paris, France. We circled the college and
could find neither the front door nor the back door and pretty soon found ourselves going down a rough to
Vernon St. again. Did we feel silly! So we says to ourselves, "We'll come back this way and then we'll surely
see somebody''. But we did not come that way
In the heart of LaGrange I was just as much in a fog. Nothing had a familiar look. We finally found the
Baptist Church and went from there to the cemetery. Bill and Mary said, "Mother we thought you grew up
here". Well, I couldn't even find Miss Mollie Rowland's store nor Mr. E. R. Bradfield's store nor Mr. McCaine's
grocery. And the shelters over the stores were all gone. They made it so nice and cool for the merchants to sit
out in the shade and watch for the country trade. I was disappointed about the shelters.
Love to you and to everyone,
Sara Ivey
P. S. Did you know my mother Mrs. Addie Bull Tomlinson was the originator of the LC Alumni Association?
Editor's Note: Mrs. Sara Tomlinson Ivey graduated from LAGRANGE FEMALE COLLEGE in 1899 and lives in Birmingham, Alabama.
Her letter to the director of alumni activities reveals the strong city—college relationship as it existed in 1899.