It seems there are sharp eyes and memories among several of our alumni, who contacted SMU Magazine to gently inform us that the photo on the back cover of the Fall/Winter 2010 issue was not of SMU’s 1934 Homecoming queen. In fact, we were contacted by the Homecoming queen from the actual year of the photo: Sarah-Finch Maiden “Skippy” Rollins (Mrs. Joe G. Rollins) ’42, who now lives in Boulder, Colorado. She says it was she sitting atop the convertible during SMU’s Homecoming parade in downtown Dallas in fall 1941. SMU Magazine stands corrected, and so does SMU Archives
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