ALUMNI NUMBER THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL SLIPPERY ROCKET VOLUME Vil WALKS WITH NATURE It is the purpose of the Nature Study Department to issue g few setg of printed directions for student use, pointing out most interesting places around Slippery Rock, not only places where interesting species of but also geological formations. 1t is hoped that a greater interest in get- ting out into the open will be created., and that the walk wiil not be taken alone for the air but to enjoy intel- ligently what is seen, the materials that nature uses, how she uses them, where she has put them, and how she arranges them. Directions for “Walk Number 1” are offered for approval and will be distributed as a trial, being found in the book room for free distribu- tion. If a demand is apparent, others will be made available. Objectives 1. Some of Butler County’s best land- scape views. II. An earthquake. I11. A strawberry that is green when ripe. {V. Flowering dogwood. Directions I. Leaving North Hall, walk noi- thly, directly toward the athletic field.. Arriving there, right about face and enjoy the view of rolling country, forest areas, open stretch- es, Slippery Rock Borough, and the Normal School building right at your feet, This is one of the highest points in Butler county, being in the neigh- horhood of 1500 feet above sea-level. Still facing south, the row of hills in the distance ig called the terminal moraine. This is where many thou- sand years ago a huge mass of ice (glacier) came down from the north and finding it too hot, melted. It (Continued on Page 2) SLIPPERY ROCK, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 10 1925 A VISITOR FROM HARRISBURG “A thing of beauty is a joy forever” The beginning of summer school "was made pleasant by the visit of Dr. Kirby, director of art in the Pennsyl- vania Department ot Public Instruc- tion. His illuminating talks on the course of study were very helpful and practical to the persons who were en- rolled in his class. The whole student body enjoyed the illustrated chapel talks. Dr. Kirby showed the most concrete and interesting way the pos- sibility of correlating art with all oth- er studies of the school curriculum. We as teachers and prospective teach- ers felt the responsibility of inviting children to appreciate and love the beauties of their surroundings. After Dr. Kirby’s visit we more fully realize Keat’s great truth that “Beauty is truth. truth beauty,— that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” i § The Flumni Cupid has been busy with his ar- rews and has captured many of the Slippery Rock alumni. At times he has been entirely too active and not waiting till our girls have reached the stage of being classed as alumni. Hel- en Hardman, class of ’25 leads off by heing married December 22, 1924 to William Cherry of McKeesport. - e Miss Edna Close, of class of 25, of Mt. Pleasant waited not long after commencement day, till she and John Graham, class of '26 hied away to (Continued on Page 6) NUMBER 17 A PASTORAL ROMANCE I didn’t go to the funeral. After so many years I felt that to go and look upon the lifeless form would only be- dim my impression of Nellie. Out- wardly, she was so typically the old- fashioned school teacher, thin, fiat- chested, white haired, and ascetic featured. Her feet were large; her back was starched; her never chang- ing eyes, beneath the high, severe forehead, were of that clear blue that seems surface deep only; and her lips were habitually pursed in lines thai seemed unbreakable even when she talked, or laughed her perfunctory lit- tle laugh. . In the morning she wore straight blue calico dresses, trimmed in ric-rac braid, with belts that seemed pieced in to make the dress longer. In the afternoon she wore a stiff, white shirt waist and a long, black shirt. She always used an abundance ot starch. Her shoes were heavy and awkward. Her white hair was pulled straight back in a tight little knot. She never fluffed it, even for church when she put on her best suit and neatest shoes. Her little white house stood on a gentle slope, facing a rutty mud road that turned off in an obscure little opening from the state highway. A- round the house, in solemn parade, ex- tended a row of pines, the growth of years. They gave the.effect of per- mancy and stability, but also of cold, aloof inaccessibilty, very chilling to the approaching visitor. By the road on either side of the walk was a row of iris, Nellie’s favorite flower. this bed, she spent most of her late afternoon hours, tending the plants, pulling the weeds, watering, plucking, and cultivating. I never knew her to (Continued on Page 2) Over .