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I am a 1954 graduate of what was then Ouachita College. On an evening in the dorm, several guys gathered in my room. We got to talking about dares. One guy said: "I dare someone to walk to Gurdon tonight. I'll give ten dollars to a taker." I needed ten dollars real bad so I told them I would do it. To assure him of no trickery (I didn't have a car), I was told to go to the train station and copy words written on the Hoo Hoo monument. I hardly knew where Gurdon was. There was no I-30. I sure had never heard of the Hoo Hoo monument. I wasn't sure it existed. I caught the 6:00 bus to Arkadelphia and missed all my morning classes, but I got my ten dollars!
Dale Pogue
Little Rock, AR