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CHRISTI MAYS
Before email, instant messaging, and Facetime, the post office was the 'place to be'
a Instead of sitting around with laptops and cell phones at Bawcom Student Union like students do today, hanging out at the post office was the place to be when Julia (Amason) Walker ‘60 was at Mary Hardin-Baylor.
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Box No. 124.
Even though it’s been more than 60 years since she graduated, Julia vividly remembers running to the campus post office every day to check box No. 124. Long before tapping out a text connected us to the world, communication revolved around the handwritten word. Along with her five best friends, Julia would take off from her room on the third floor of Stribling Hall and stroll over to a small building near what is now Walton Chapel and wait until she could get a look inside her box. The small building also contained the bookstore where she and a gaggle of girls would congregate between classes, waiting on Postmistress Stegall to signal the mail was out. She wouldn’t allow the girls to check their boxes until every piece had been posted, which was usually around 10 a.m. Gathered around tables inside the bookstore, which
