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Dr. E. W. Branyon’s Bio
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was them. “You were the only two intelligent enough to think of something like that,” he responded.
Dad was honored, but also the butt of many jokes. Students constantly flipped our outside electricity switch so we’d have to go out and turn it on. Other times they’d steal what was called a Hoover wagon, a 10 x 10 foot wagon with pneumatic tires instead of solid ones. They’d hoist the wagons onto the flagpole or put them on top of a building. Dad would get some kids to take it down and send them to apologize to the man whose wagon they stole.
Daddy would paddle sometimes, but just as often he’d use compassion. One student got arrested for being drunk and disorderly, and Dad bailed him out. Later he said: “You know, you never give up on a kid. That guy is now a Methodist preacher.”
Two drunks were driving and ran into a telephone pole. “What’s the matter,” asked Joe, “didn’t you see that pole?” “Why yes,” said his friend, “But I thought you were driving.”
Then again, during a ceremony recog- nizing Daddy’s 42 years of service to the First