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Edmonton, KY couple celebrates at LWC, where romance started, in 1942 She was the beautiful girl from Waterview in Cumberland County. He was a basketball star from Tompkinsville in Monroe County. They met in 1941 at Lindsey Wilson College, and shared a first kiss one year later on the steps of the Admininistration Building, igniting a romance which is now one of the great love stories of our place and time. Through it all, there are great memories of Lindsey Wilson College. Click on headline for full story plus photo By Duane Bonifer, LWC Director of Public Relations COLUMBIA, KY - Two Lindsey Wilson College alumni took a walk down memory lane Thursday afternoon on the A.P. White Campus. Ruth and Cortez Butler, both of Edmonton, KY, drove to Columbia with their children, Tez Butler and Connie Coleman, also of Edmonton, to celebrate their wedding anniversary, which is October 23, 2009. The four celebrated 66 years of matrimony at Mulligan's restaurant. But before lunch, the Butlers showed their children where the couple shared their first kiss. The kiss The kiss happened on an evening during the 1941-42 school year on what were once front basement steps leading into what is now the L.R. McDonald Administration Building. The front basement entrance to the 106-year-old building was closed more than 25 years ago, but a plaque hangs over the spot, commemorating the name of the campus. A.P. White was president of the college when the Butlers were students. Ruth Sewell Butler came to Lindsey Wilson from Waterview in Cumberland County, KY, and Cortez Butler came to LWC from Tompkinsville in Monroe County. The campus then Back then, the college had but four buildings: the Administration Building, the Gymnasium (which included Hundley Dining Hall in the basement), the Girls' Dormitory (now Phillips Hall) and the Boys' Dormitory (which later became Chandler Hall before being razed in the early 1980s). "I remember eating at the table with him one time," Ruth recalled Thursday morning. "Now the first year we were just good friends, and the second year we dated." A BMOC Cortez played basketball during his two years at LWC, first for Arthur Gullette, who founded LWC's basketball program; and then for John McQueary. In addition to two years on the basketball team, Cortez was also vice president of their 98-member sophomore class and was 1941 May Day king. May Day Queen Ruth was crowned May Day queen in 1942, and she was also a member of the Pep Club, Library Club, Pine Cone yearbook staff and tennis club. During their Thursday visit, the Butlers fondly recalled several Lindsey Wilson giants. In addition to White, they discussed the late physics professor and dean Asa Shelton, English professor Mary Meade and history professor Noma Dix Winston. Pearl Harbor They also remembered coming out of the Rialto Theater on the afternoon of Sunday, December 7, 1941, to learn that the U.S. naval base Pearl Harbor had been attacked by Japan's air and naval forces. "I don't remember the movie, but I just remember Sunday afternoon coming out of the movie and people were yelling," Ruth said. Ruth said she and the other residents of the Girls' Dormitory pleaded with the hall's matron, Jettie Josephine Duncan, to allow them to listen to the radio that night past the 10pm, the time when all lights and radios were turned off. "We were naive enough to think the war was going to be over that night," she said. "We wanted to hear the war end. ... (Duncan) had lived through World War I and she said, 'Oh children -- children you have no idea what this means. Most of the boys over in that building (the Boys' Dormitory) will be going to war.' We had no idea what we were in for." After graduation from Lindsey Wilson, Cortez enlisted in the Naval Air Force and got his wings. The airman "I couldn't drive a car, but I could fly a plane," he said. After Cortez received his commission, he and Ruth were married in New Orleans on his way to an assignment in Florida. Cortez served in the South Pacific Theater until the war finally did end in 1945. Memories Cortez continued his basketball career at Tennessee Polytechnic Institute, now known as Tennessee Tech. After college, Cortez taught and coached basketball at the former Marrow Bone (KY) High School, and then taught and coached basketball at Metcalfe County High School before retiring as that school's guidance counselor. "We loved it here and got so many good memories here," Ruth said. This story was posted on 2009-10-23 06:22:03 Click Here for a printable version of the article. Have comments or corrections for this story? Use our contact form and let us know. Bookmark: Facebook | Del.icio.us | Suggest Columbia Magazine recommends the following local authors: To sponsor news and features on ColumbiaMagazine, or for information about web hosting and design, please use our contact form or call 384-3979.
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