Volume 11, Number 1 (1938) The Purple Pen
Front Matter
Nonfiction
"The Embattled Farmers"
Elsie M. Crane
Fiction
Recommendation
Eugene Bovee
A Noon Visit
Eleanor Rae Kreussel
The Group Photograph
Claudia Michalek
Picking Up "Spuds"
Julia Entz
"To-Day I Am Five"
Audrey Peet
November Winds
Robert Kamm
Doorstep Baby
Wilma Isley
The Conquest
Eugene Bovee
La Gran Batalla
Rolland Lambirth
For Little Esther
Russell Hersch
Writers and Banana Trees
Edwin C. Kepler
At The Country Fair
Edith Severidt
With a Star
C. Esther Copp
Poetry
A Baby's Smile
Margaret Stoddard Rogers
Development
Lois Moessner
The Critic
Ethel Blain
Realization
Lois Moessner
Daylight Came Dancing
Dorothy De Zouche
Two-Fold Autumn
W. Wendell Phillips
Extravaganza
E. Winson Wallace
Life Sauntered By
Dorothy De Zouche
October Rain
Gwendolyn Wescott
Song for a Lost Muse
Lee F. Parman
Art
Contemporary Affairs
Leona Smith
Prose
A Country Cemetery
William D. Walton
Whistling Swans in Migration
C. Esther Copp
Iowa Gumbo
Margery Cory Maddock
An Old Fashioned Garden
Hubert F. Smock
The Apple Tree
Evangeline French
Editors
- Editor-in-Chief
- Eleanor Rae Kreussel
- Business Manager
- Richard H. Roupe
- Faculty Advisor
- Selina M. Terry
