The Cotton-Tail

It was good to see the 1906 Cotton-Tail and the 1907 Yucca featured in the summer North Texan (“Down the Corridor”). I have enjoyed my grandmother’s copies for many years.
I thought your readers might like to know that the poem on page 98 of the 1907 Yucca was written by Josephine Acker (1907) of Frisco. She only signed her initials to “In Memoriam to the Cotton-Tail,” but she penned her name in her own copy.
She continued to write poetry all of her life and taught school in Celina and Frisco before marrying W.B. Staley Jr. in 1910. 
I am proud to have followed in her footsteps as a North Texas graduate, as is her great-granddaughter, Megan Staley Sander (’04).
Nola Jo Staley Springfield (’61)
Dallas

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