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V ol. X VII

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OCTOBER, 1912

No. 1

Hew Head for Department of natural Science
This will introduce to the Alumni and friends of C. V . S. N . S.
the newly elected Head of the Department of Natural Science,
Prof. Herbert Momma Levan.
Prof. Levan’s home is suburban to Harrisburg, Pa., and the
name is not new to many connected with Cumberland Valley
Normal School, his two sisters being members o f our Alumni.
H e was graduated from Westchester State Normal School;
taught two years in Chester County as Principal o f a H igh School,
and was graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in June,
1911 . with the degree Ph. B. During last year he taught English
and Science in the Pottstown H igh School.
Prof. Levan comes to us highly recommended as a man of
strong character and excellent teaching ability. H e has, in the
few weeks he has been a member of our teaching force, made an
impression that more than bears out his recommendations.

Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour,
Improve each moment as it flies!
Life’s a short summer, man a flower;
He dies—alas! how soon he dies.
—Johnson.

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/iDo&el Scbo&l Motes
The Model School was opened on Wednesday, September
the 4th, with an enrollment of one hundred thirty pupils. Twentyone of these entered the First Grade.
Owing to the increase in the enrollment of several classes, a
rearrangement of class rooms was necessary. The Third Grade
has been restored to its former place in the “ cage,” while the
Seventh and Fifth Grades have exchanged rooms.
During the first week of school, Miss Dorothy Elizabeth E ly
was enrolled as a new pupil. She received a report card showing
that, she is in good standing in her class.
Th e walls of the Model School and class rooms have been
greatly improved by receiving a new coat of paint.
Th e small statue of William Penn, the gift of the class of
1912 of the Model School, has been placed in the Ninth Grade
room.
Diana, Goddess of the moon and chase, daughter o f Jupiter
and Eaton a, the gift to the Model School by the class of 1910,
now occupies the central place of the platform in the Model
School. W e are very proud to own so fine a piece of statuary and
we are very grateful to the class of 1910 for this splendid gift. It
was of this beautiful Goddess that Byron wrote these lines:
“ Goddess serene, transcending every star!
Queen of the sky, whose beams are seen afar!
By night heaven owns thy sway, by day the grove,
When, as chaste Dian, here thou deign’st to rove.”
These actually occurred in our school:
Teacher— “ H ave you any brothers?”
Pupil— “ Yes, two, but one’s a girl.”
Story as told by Marie:
“ A little boy went fishing, and he fished, and he fished, and
didn’t catch anything, and— and— and— he put in his thumb and
pulled out a plum .”
Teacher— “ What is the best time to clean your teeth?”
Pupil— “ In the spring.”

Merit does not consist in gaining this or that position; but in being
competent to fill any.—Louis Depret.

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Department of ifnstrumental HDusic
The season has opened with a large class o f music students.
A ll music pupils become members of a Club which meets in
the School Parlors once a month.
It is the purpose of this Club to give the young musician an
opportunity to gain confidence and experience by playing in public.
Each Club meeting is devoted to some representative com­
poser, and a paper is prepared concerning his life-work and in­
fluence in the world of music. Vocal and instrumental selections
are rendered from the composer under discussion. A t roll call the
members respond with a bit of musical information.
Miss Margaret Gates, one of our former popular recital per­
formers, entered the music department of Wilson College last year
and made a noticeably good record.

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Department of tDocal /»usic
This year a Supervisor’s Course in Vocal Music has been begun.
This course includes: Practice of Teaching in the Model School,
a Course in Sight Reading, Harmony, and Dictation and Con­
ducting. Th is work in music promises to be popular and useful
for those who have especial talent and who wish to prepare them­
selves to do special teaching in music in public and private
schools.
T h e Normal and Philo Literary Society Glee Clubs have
begun the new year with an unusually large membership in each.
Am ong the officers in each Glee Club is a Conductor chosen from
those who are taking the Supervisor’s Course in Music.
It is most gratifying to the Head of the Department of Vocal
Music that so many of both the old and new students have
volunteered to join the Society Glee Clubs. The work offers a
splendid opportunity to those musically inclined, is helpful and
encouraging to the Head o f the Department, and adds so much to
the pleasure of the members of both Literary Societies.
A School Orchestra of twelve pieces is being organized with
the expectation of furnishing music in Chapel, for school enter­
tainments, and in Literary Societies.

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jfacultg iReception to ©lb anb iRew Stubents
On Saturday evening, September 7, the Faculty held a re­
ception for the students. Promptly at seven o ’clock the Faculty
assembled in the large drawing-room and received the students,
both new and old. It was a great pleasure to greet again the
former students and to formally welcome the new ones.
Although it was an excessively warm evening, most of the
students enjoyed dancing, and the gymnasium was used for that
purpose. However, many of the students, who did not care to
dance, were delightfully entertained in the drawing room. The
reception closed at 10:00 P. M.

flsn’t ITt Strange
Isn’t it strange
How little we know
The people we meet in this world below?
How we pass our friends from day to day,
And with only a nod we go on our way,
When there’ s so much more we each might say—iwj
Isn’t it strange
How little we show
What we really feel in this world below?
How we hide, or pass with a merry jest,
The feelings that are true and best; ’
How much we leave by a clasp of the hand
Or a look, our friends, as best they can,
To find what we mean and to understand,
Isn’t it strange?
—Carrie Callaway.
Life is an arrow—therefore you must know
What mark to aim at, how to use the bow,
Then draw it to the head, and let it go.
—Henry Van Dyke.
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Life’s but a means unto an end; that end,
Beginning, mean, and end of all things—God.
—Philip James Bailey.

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13. /ID. anD 13. 'em. A most enjoyable reception was given on Saturday evening,
Sept. 14, by the Y . M. and Y . W . C. A . to their members, the
new students and the faculty.
Th e members of the respective cabinets received in the large
drawing room. The drawing rooms, corridor and chapel were
most attractively decorated with wild flowers and pennants. As
each lady passed through the receiving line she was given a small
red heart and mitten.
A s soon as all the guests had arrived, they were invited to
the chapel to enjoy a program which had been prepared for their
entertainment. . Th e first number was ‘ ‘A Leap Year Proposal
This short, but laughable, pantomime showed the girls how to
propose and also served as a warning against the popular man.
The next feature was a musical sketch, displaying the music
of the future. M r. Trostle, the leader, and his human scale kept
the audience convulsed with their rendition of the popular “ Arias”
of the next century. Th e sketch was much appreciated as was
shown by the applause it received and the presentation o f a beau­
tiful (?) bouquet of flowers to the leader. This was acknowledged
by profuse bows.
N ext came the “ Alphabet of a M an’s Sweethearts.” They
were all there from actress to ze alo tS all kinds and conditions of
girls. A s each girl appeared in a frame a short couplet was read.
A ll lights were extinguished and colored lights thrown upon each
girl as she posed.
Th e last number was a series tableaux entitled: Richman,
Poorman, Beggarman, Thief. A s in the preceding feature, the
house was in darkness and a light thrown upon each tableau in
succession. Every part of the program was much enjoyed and all
who participated in it acted so very effectively as to make the
evening’s program a great success.
During the interval while the stage was being prepared for
the various features, the students participated in contests. A
prize was to be awarded to the writer of the best original poem,
entitled “ School-Days.” Each boy went about and asked a girl
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ferred. Prizes were to be awarded to the ones who held the
highest number of each. A s each guest left the chapel, the name
of some animal was pinned on his back and he was obliged to
guess what it was from a description or hint.
After a short time spent on the veranda and in the drawing
rooms, all the guests again assembled in the large drawing room
and the prizes were awarded. Miss Zimmerman and Mr. Buckalew
received prizes for the best poem, Mr. M cGee for the most hearts
and Mr. Geyer for the most mittens. Refreshments were then
served. About 10:30 P. M. the reception closed and all agreed
that the evening had been very delightful and entertaining.

I count this thing to be grandly true;
That a noble deed is a step toward God.
Lifting the soul from the common clod
To a purer air and a broader view.
We rise by the things that are under feet;
By what we have mastered o f good or gain;
By the pride deposed and the passion slain,
And the vanquished ills that we hourly meet.
Heaven is not reached at a single bound,
But we build the ladder by which we rise,
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies,
And mount to its summit round by round.
—J. G. Holland.
Everything comes to those who wait,
And the lazy man waits to greet it;
But success comes on with a rapid gait
To the fellow who goes to meet it.
—Speaker.
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The inner side of every cloud is bright and shining.
I therefore turn my clouds about
And always wear them inside out
To show the lining.
—Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler.
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.—Earl of Chester­
field.

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IRnowlebôe anî> jfaitb as Expressed in
TEemtEson’s poems
A t the time of Tennyson’s birth, religious life in England
was at an ebb. Brook’s says: “ In the midst o f the valley, one
figure, now old, who had seen the fire of religious sacrifice rise
high to God in the past, who had welcomed its descent and di­
rected it into new channels, but who had outlived his enthusiasms,
went to and fro, chilled at heart and wailing for what had been.
This was the soul of Coleridge. I f the voice of the spirit had
asked: ‘Son of man, can these bones liv e ? ’ H e answered, but
not in hope, ‘O Lord, God, Thou alone knowest.’ ”
Th is religious awakening in England was felt and accepted
by two distinct characters, Newman and Maurice. Th e main
difference in the manner in which these men presented the faith
was this: Newman looked back to the past; he thought the
nearer to the apostles and their teachings, the nearer to truth.
His great reverence for thé past became part of the mind of
Tennyson. The deepest thought in the teachings of Maurice was
that God was moving in the present as fully as he had moved in
the past.
W hat Alfred Tennyson’s own personal views were no one
knows exactly; but we must judge from his poems and the in­
terpretations that are put upon them depend entirely upon the
person who interprets them. There is no doctrinal declaration
or, to my mind, any proposition which clearly defines his faith.
Through most of his poems there is a cry of despair or at least of
doubt. W hile Tennyson keeps in the realm of the undefined,
beyond analysis, beyond reasoning, his poems are gentle, soft
and satisfying. When he is tempted into the realm of knowledge,
he ceases to be a poet for the time and suffers untold agony and
torture.
T h e main faiths of Maurice which were assertions of what he
conceived to be eternal truths, assertions backed up by no proof,
for some matters insisted on can neither be proved nor disproved,
were naturally in the realm of faith and were brought to receive
either our acceptance or dismissal before the tribunal of human
emotion and not before the tribunal of understanding.
W e cannot take the “ Christ” in the “ Idylls of the K in g ,”
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Queen” as positive proofs of Tennyson’s views. It may be that
harassed as he was by doubts and misgivings, he would naturally
dwell on this question of knowledge and faith which was so
troubling him.
L iving at the time Tennyson did, there is little wonder that
he had to fight hard with himself against thoughts which en­
deavored to betray his faith and against doubts which besieged
it from without. A n y help which Tennyson has given in set­
tling this great problem in the minds of his readers, he has done
never by argument, rarely from an intellectual point of view; but
by an appeal to the emotions. I f he had done it otherwise, he
would have ceased to rest the truth on Faith, in that unprovable
conviction that there is a God.
I shall try to trace the different stages of growth in the faith
of Tennyson as found in his poems. ‘ ‘The Supposed Confessions
of a Sensitive Mind not in Unity with Itself” is surely the result
of the poet’s misgivings.
‘ ‘Oh God! my God! have mercy now.
I faint, I fall. Men say that Thou
Didst die for me, for such as me.
Patient o f ill, and death, and scorn,
A nd that my sin was as a thorn
Am ong the thorns that girt T h y brow,
Wounding T h y soul.”
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In another place in the same poem:
“ How sweet to have a common faith!
T o hold a common scorn of death!”
A nd then:
“ Thrice happy state again to be
Th e trustful infant on the knee!
W ho lets his waxen fingers play
Around his mother’s neck, and knows
Nothing beyond his mother’s eyes.”
Tennyson says “ Oh for that simple, trusting faith o f the infant.”
A little further on:
“ Oh, sure it is a special care
O f God, to fortify from doubt.”
And the climax o f his feeling is expressed in the last stanza:
“ Oh weary lifeU' O weary death!
O spirit and heart made desolate,
O damned vacillating state!”

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Th e “ Deserted H ouse,” to my mind, is an acknowledgement
of faith without knowledge.
Th e great triumph of love over death is, described in the
poem “ Dove and Death.” This, of course, is symbolic of faith.
In “ Morte D ’Arthur” the poet is invoking the help of
prayer:
“ Pray for my soul, more things are wrought by prayer
Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice
Rise like a fountain for me night and day.
But now farewell. I am going a long way
W ith these thou seest-Hf indeed I go—
For all my mind is clouded with a doubt.”
The question “ Is Fife Worth Diving, Is it not Better not to
be?” is taken up in the poem “ The Tw o Voices,” beginning:
“ A still small voice spake unto me
Thou art so full of misery,
Were it not better not to be?”
In another place in the same poem he says, in answer to some
questions, perhaps scientific, perhaps spiritual:
“ I would have said, Thou canst not know.
Again the voice spake unto me:
‘Thou art so steeped in misery,
Surely ’twere better not to be. ’ ”
A little further on in the poem he says:
“ A s far as might be, to carve out
Free space for every human doubt,
That the whole mind might orb about.
That men with knowledge merely played
I told thee— hardly made—
T h o ’ scaling slow from grade to grade:
Much less this dreamer, deaf and blind,
Named man, may hope some truth to find,
That bears relation to the mind.
And that in seeking to undo
One riddle and to find the true
I knit a hundred others new.
I f all be dark, vague voice, I said,
These things are wrapt in doubt and dread,
Nor canst thou show the dead are dead.”
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In the latter part of the poem Tennyson begins to see his way
more clearly; he says:
“ Be of better cheer
I see the end and know the good.”

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Tennyson did not rely on knowledge alone.

In the poem

“ Ulysses” he speaks of knowledge as a sinking star. One can
readily see Tennyson’s sympathy with things in science which
can be demonstrated where he says:
“ When I dip’t into the future far as human eye could see:
Saw the vision of the world and all the wonder that would be.
“ Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers and I linger on the shore,
A nd the individual withers and the earth is more and more.
“ Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers and he bears a laden breast
Full of sad experience, moving toward the stillness of his rest.”
“ St. A gnes’ E v e ,” although full of doubt, is an acknowl­
edgment of faith:
“ M y breath to heaven like vapor goes,
May my soul follow soon.”
“ So shows my soul before the Lamb
M y spirit before Thee,
So in my earthly house I am,
T o that, I hope to be.”
In “ Sir Galahad,” Tennyson personifies the individual who
pushes on:
“ Ride on! the prize is near.
So pass I hostel, hall and grange
By bridge and ford, by park and pale,
A ll armed I ride, whate’er betide
Until I find the H oly Grail.”
T o illustrate the progress of the soul from sorrow to peace,
as portrayed in “ In Memoriam,” I shall take three main marks
of time. Th e anniversaries of the death of Hallam, the Christmas
tides and the advents of Spring. When Tennyson first learns of
the death of Hallam, grief is all and all to him; it drowns his
world; the changeless yew-tree symbolizes the hardness of his
heart. W ith the anniversary of Hallam’s death, the pain is very
keen.
“ Day when my crowned estate begun
T o pine in that reverse of doom,
W hich sickened every living bloom,
And blurred the splendor of the sun:
Day, marked as with some hideous crime,
When the dark hand struck down thro time
And cancelled Nature’s best.”

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B y this time the poet had lost all hope of resignation on this the
anniversary of H allam ’s death. A s yet there is no forgiveness
nor peace in the heart of Tennyson. When the next anniversary
rolls around, the meadows breathe softly of the past; there has
been a storm, but the breath of the day is now balmy. But per­
haps the greatest change is that Tennyson thinks more of the pain
o f mankind in general and less of his own personal grief. Now
if this change is apparent at these sad periods, the anniversaries
when the poet is sure to have his sorrow driven home to him, it
surely is at other times when the mind is freed from so close a
pressure of memory.
When the bells ring out for the first Christmas tide, Tennyson
remembers that he had almost wished to die in his grief, but these
bells instill a small touch of jo y within his breast. There is more
or less of bitterness, but with Christmas day this perishes and he
keeps the day in memory of the friend who was with him the year
previous. A gentle feeling has crept into his heart:
“ They rest, their sleep is sweet.”
And then it is that the first prophecy in the poem of the Resur­
rection of the soul from sorrow is made.
“ Our voices took a higher range;
Once more we sang: ‘They do. not die
Nor lose their mortal sympathy
Nor change to us, altho’ they change.’
Rise happy morn, rise holy morn.
Draw forth the cheerful day from night.
O Father, touch the east, and light
The light that shone when Hope was born.”
A year passes; Tennyson says:
“ O last regret, regret can die!
No— m ixt with all this mystic frame
Her deep relations are the same,
But with long use her tears are dry.”
This is not victory by any means and the grief is Still personal.
Th e poet has not escaped from himself and the year which has
been spent in a half intellectual analysis of doubts and the replies
of the understanding to them has not brought peace to the life of
the soul of Tennyson.
However, things are changed the next Christmas. Tennyson
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for the good of all. Th e universal has come. The full signifi­
cance of this great change is seen in Tennyson’s wonderful poem
“ Ring Out W ild Bells.”
W ith the coming of the first spring-tide, he has comfort, but
no delight.
“ No jo y the blowing seasons g iv e .”
When the spring of 1835 arrives, he is no longer retrospect­
ive.

Sorrow is ever with him, but he foresees a new time when

his heart will be filled with joy.
In the spring of ’36 regret has wholly died.
These contrasts are sufficient to mark out clearly the history
of the soul in progress from darkness to light, from selfishness to
unselfishness, from knowledge to faith. So that in the prologue
he comes to say :
“ Strong Son of God, immortal Love,
Whom we, that have not seen T h y face,
By faith, and faith alone, embrace,
Believing where we cannot prove.
W e have but faith; we cannot know:
For knowledge is of things we see;
A nd yet we trust it comes from Thee,
A beam in darkness; let it grow.”
Thus expressing an acknowledgement of faith in things we can­
not know; since we cannot prove them, we must accept them as
they are.
‘ ‘Let knowledge grow from more to more;
But more o f reverence in us dwell;
That mind and soul, according well,
May make one music as before.”
Tennyson is perfectly willing that knowledge shall grow and that
science shall displace old beliefs; but that with the getting of this
knowledge, faith too shall increase.
“ W e are fools and slight;
W e mock Thee when we do not fear.”
This has the idea of warning, a warning that there is a chance of
our getting too far away from certain fundamental truths, which
we must accept, and also a confession of fear that the vain world
may not be able to bear the revelations of truth which science
may make.

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"Forgive my grief, for one removed,
T h y creature whom I found so fair.
I trust he lives in Thee, and there
I find him worthier to be loved. ”
This is an effort toward believing, but still there is an evidence
o f doubt.
Th e last stanza of the prologue is a supplication, a request
for forgiveness and a prayer for wisdom:
"Forgive these wild and wandering cries,
Confusions of a wasted youth;
Forgive them where they fail in truth,
And in T h y wisdom make me wise.”
In the poem "R izpah ” I think the unfailing, unflinching,
untiring love of the mother for her son is symbolic of Tennyson’s
faith in the love o f God for his children.
A few lines from “ Children’s Hospital” gives us an idea of
Tennyson’s views o f prayer:
"A n d he said to me roughly ‘The lad will need little more of your
care. ’
‘A ll the more need,’ I told him, ‘to ask the Lord Jesus in prayer;
They are all his children here, and I pray for them all as my ow n.’
But he turned to me, ‘A ye, good woman, can prayer set a broken
bone?’
Then he muttered half to himself, but I know what I heard him
say,
‘A ll very well, but the good Lord Jesus has had his d ay.’
‘ Had? Has it come? It has only dawned; it will come bye and
bye.
O, how could I serve in the wards if the hope of the world were
a lie?’ ”
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The poem, " D e Profundis,” written after the birth of Tenny­
son’s first child, echoes the faith of the maturer mind.
"L o cksley H all S ix ty Years After” shows the change in
Tennyson’s views since the writing of the First Locksley Hall, in
which he seemed to think that by the light of science alone could
man hope to reach the truth. H e now dwells more particularly
on those truths which are revealed by religion and which, though
they cannot be proved, will always stand because they spring
from the human soul and are inherent in the whole human race.
Th e poem "Crossing the Bar,” which, Tennyson requested
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pression of a faith which has come through many conflicts and
which at the end is not entirely devoid of doubt, or at least of the
impressions that doubt has made, the last note so restful and sug­
gestive of peace of soul, expresses not quite an unquestioned be­
lief, for he says:
“ I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.”

M r s . A n n e tte T . H e r r .

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30. urn. g. a.
The Y . W . C. A . extends a cordial greeting to all members
of our school, and an urgent invitation to the new girls to become
members of our association.
Our purpose is to advance the spiritual, intellectual and social
interests of the school.
capable of giving help.

Every girl needs help, and every girl is
The association furnishes the opportunity

for this mutual service. W e aim to assist girls to become leaders
capable of meeting the needs of their home communities.
W e hope that the year may be pleasant and profitable and
that we may enroll every girl in the school on our list of active
members.

S y l v ia C over , ’ 13, Pres.

Smile a smile;
While you smile,
Another smiles,
And soon there’s miles and miles
Of smiles. And life’s worth while
If you but smile.
—Jane Thompson.
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If there is a good deed to be done, if there is a noble aim to be real­
ized, if there are duties waiting us in our daily lives, the time for all
that, is now before sunset.—Desmond.
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet,
And master and make crouch beneath his feet,
And so be pedestaled in triumph.
—Browning.

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/ID. C. H.
Th e Young M en’s Christian Association is now well on the
road to a very successful year. Every student in the building is
a member and each is willing to try to make this year more suc­
cessful than those gone before.
Th e Association was somewhat handicapped in that it had
only two officers on the Cabinet at the beginning of the term.
But by the election of Mr. O. L . Spahr and Mr. H . W . M eckley
to fill the vacancies, the Cabinet is now complete and ready for
this year’s work.
Our advisor, Prof. J. K . Stewart, is earnest and untiring in
his efforts to create a better moral standing among the young men
o f our school.
The reception given to the new men on the first Friday even­
ing was a delightful one and all present thoroughly enjoyed it.
There, all formalities were laid aside and the former students
met the new ones as man to man.
Already the Bible Classes have begun their studies with a large
attendance. Th e corridor prayer meetings and the Sunday even­
ing services are likewise well attended and full of interest.
W e hope and pray that we may do great things for the cause
o f Christ this year among the fellows in the school.

Ray R. S touffer , ’ 13, Pres.

lPbilomatbean Xiterarg Society
Th e fall term has opened with excellent prospects for Philo.
It may be interesting for the former members to know that
at the last meeting of Spring Term, and the first meeting of
Fall Term we have taken in fifty new members. It is also very
gratifying to report that the society is out of debt and has a bal­
ance in the treasury.
It is to be hoped that under such favorable conditions the
society will put forth renewed efforts for regular attendance, and
taking part in the program toward the general welfare of Philo.

L. J osephine E ves , ’ 13,

Secretary.

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Bormal Xiterarg Society
Normal Literary Society is an organization established for
the purpose o f encouraging and promoting literary pursuits.
During the past year the work was very successful, but Normal
aims at still greater and higher achievements.
Th e ideal of the society is to develop the talent of her mem­
bers along literary and musical lines, and to encourage public
speaking. Normal, of course, lost some of her valued members
in the class of 1912 and needs the support and encouragement of
the new students of the school.
Normal bears a very high standard and no member of the
school should miss the many pleasures and benefits derived from
membership in a Literary Society. She has already received some
new members, and they, as well as the old, should feel the respon­
sibility of carrying on the work of the Society and making this the
most successful year in her history. W e should ever bear in mind
her motto;— “ Science, Friendship and V irtue.’ ’

Marguerite Rachel E mmert, ’ 13,

Secretary.

Be noble in every thought
And in every deed!
Let not the illusion of thy senses
Betray thee to deadly offenses.
Be strong! Be good! Be pure!
The right only shall endure,
All things else are but false pretenses.
—Longfellow.
S*

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;
There is a rapture on the lonely shore;
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar;
I love not man the less, but nature more.
—Lord Byron.

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To make the most o f dull hours, to make the best of dull people; to
like a poor jest better than none, to wear the thread bare coat like a
gentleman, to be out-voted with a smile, to hitch your wagon to the old
horse if no star is handy—that is wholesome philosophy.—Bliss Perry.

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Hfc&ress to Class of 1912
TRev. Blfrefc 1t>. 3Barr, of Baltimore
First of all let me make very plain that what I have to say
this morning is not in the least in the nature of an academic utter­
ance. Years ago I had the opportunity of speaking once to the
students of this institution and once before some of the people of
this beautiful and historic old town. I do not remember what I
talked about, and I am very doubtful as to whether any one else does,
but the vivid and pleasant recollections of that visit assure me
that I am back among friends and make me feel entirely free to
approach my very practical theme with the utmost simplicity and
directness.
Furthermore be it said for your comfort that I propose to
follow the example of the speaker this year at the John H op­
kins University Commencement. H e declared that he had suf­
fered so many things at the hands o f commencement speakers with
poor terminal facilities, that he had determined early in life, in
case he ever made such an address to cut it short. T o our amaze­
ment he was as good as his word and packed all his wisdom into
a scant thirty minutes. One reason I should like to do as well as
that I want you to remember what I say to-day. Whoever heard
o f young men or young women on their graduation day, especially
if they are in proximity to one another, manifesting any powers o f
sustained attention? M y one hope lies in brevity.
The message for to-day can be packed into one laconic im­
perative, “ Be a Thoroughbred.” Th at you may know what I
mean I point out at least three of the marks of a thoroughbred.
i . Dawn where I live they still ride to the hounds and enjoy
cross country runs. Th ey say you can tell a thoroughbred by the
mettle he shows when he comes to a ditch, a hedge or a six rail
fence. H e may not enjoy them, but he refuses to be stopped by
them. Th ey challenge him. H e takes them with a zest.
This is the first mark of a thoroughbred, the vigorous, fear­
less confident facing of the difficult. I heard a physician, as he
stepped from the room of his patient say with a ring of admiration
in his voice, “ She will win out, she is a thoroughbred.” W hat
did he mean? Th at his patient would not give up, that with
dauntless courage she was charging the cavalry o f her pain and
weakness. T o this old doctor, man of the world yet dreamer o f

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the Hinterland also, the thoroughbred was one whose high spirit
faced the difficult without shrinking or hesitation, one who would
bear and battle, but would not give up.
T o you whose school days are not yet over (and who of us
may rightly say that our school days are over or ever will be over?)
in an especial way to you who in a technical sense are still stu­
dents, I would say be a thoroughbred, and that means, first of all,
learn to reckon with the difficult.
The thoroughbred in school life goes to the root of things,
never, skips the hard things, never does ju st enough to barely pass
examinations. H e tries to be clear-cut and definite about things.
Dr. L. P. Jacks, of Oxford, Editor of the Hibbert Journal, has writ­
ten a little volume called “ Idolmakers.” One story in the book
bears the title “ That sort of T h in g.” It was a favorite expres­
sion of the student-hero of the tale. “ There or Thereabout”
was another. T o be pretty nearly right was so much easier than
to be exactly right, that accuracy was eliminated from his
vocabulary. H e rarely wrote the correct date on his weekly letter
home. He was a bungler, not a thoroughbred.
Th e serious consideration in all this is that school is a prep­
aration for life. Every evasion unfits one for life beyond the
school doors. School ought not to be all play, because life is not
all play. There are studies that are hard and must not be made
easy, because there are things in life that are hard and can not be
made easy. The student must be taught doggedly to face these
things. For it is the student who does thus face his difficulties,
who compels his mind to work, who beats back the intellectual
laziness which arises when the distasteful task appears, that is
likely to master life itself.
Th at is the reason, I may say to the faculty, that so many of
us long out of school find our gratitude increasing toward you
who were our severest task masters, and decreasing toward you
whose mistaken kindness of heart was always letting us off, al­
ways trying to make things easy.
That is the reason why some of us grow very skeptical about
a wide range of elective courses for immature students. The
temptation is to elect what pleases, to let personal taste or indi­
vidual talent be the arbiter. W e are convinced that school work
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which finds inner resistance in the pupil, disqualifies for real life,
where few electives are offered, and prescribed courses are the rule
and conditions hard to make up.
In matters of morals, the thoroughbred is as difficult to bully
and cowe as he is in matter of intellectual discipline. The difficult
has no terrors for him. H e knows that it is difficult for a man to
go into politics and maintain his high ideals, but it is possible,
and he is not afraid to make the experiment. M y observation is
that not a few of the men, and who knows but very shortly not a
few of the women going out from our State Normal Schools go
into politics more or less. . I say to you that the thoroughbred is
in politics to-day, municipal, state and national politics. He
is making good and he is there to-day. H e knows the game,
asks no odds and wins out, with sufficient frequency to keep
an increasing number of; people on the anxious seat. I think
of one of those men as I speak. H e sat in my home waiting
for a one o ’clock train one night and talking politics. How
his eye sparkled as he spoke of the fray before him. H ow con­
fident and fearless he was! When his opponents and their re­
sources were itemized you wonder why he didn’t give up. Give
up? H e couldn’t. H e was a thoroughbred. And every time I
hear the name of Ben Lindsay, I remember his flashing eye and
illumined face that night, and thank God for the better judge.
I think of another man who thoroughbred in other things, said
he could not be in politics, and called in the help of the leading
practical politicians of the city. Somehow the goods were not
delivered, though the bank balance melted. It was a hard lesson,
but it was,worth the money, and it made an idealist out of the
victim. H e has won out since then and sat in our national coun­
cils, but always as a thoroughbred. T o you young men, some of
whom ought to go into politics, for it is a high and honorable
calling, I want to say, be thoroughbreds. The people aregetting
very restless, even in Pennsylvania. I f you have not the nerve or
the faith to be a thoroughbred then observe what the restless
people are trying to write over the entrace doors— “ Keep O u t.”
It is difficult to maintain one’s ideals in many form«; of busi­
ness and professional activity, but it is possible. It is difficult for
a young man to go through the world unspotted, but it is possible
and the thoroughbred makes it his business to set that goal before

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He knows that the accusation that all men are spotted is a

cowardly invention of the father of lies, and seeks no refuge be­
hind that defense.
In other words, the thoroughbred is not prepared to com­
promise in matters o f morals. H e does not say “ It is wrong to
lie, therefore I shall tell the truth nine times out o f ten. ’ ’ H e does
not make exceptions in favor of the white lie, whatever that may be,
or the polite society lie, or an examination paper lie, or a lie for
favor or for profit. H e knows that stealing is not stealing part
of the time and something else the rest of the time, something else
where it is successful or carried out o n a big scale, or within the
letter of the law. H e knows that to be almost honest is to be dis­
honest, that a man has no more business to aim at being almost
honest than a woman has to aim at being almost virtuous. I like
to think o f the tribute once paid old Abram Steinway, the founder
of the great piano manufacturing firm. Some Boston business
men gave him a banquet, and the toast offered was to “ the man
who like his pianos is upright, square and grand.” H e was a
thoroughbred.
The best mark of the thoroughbred is a certain magnanimity of
mind, a big generous way of doing things. Th e thoroughbred
never haggles or bargains. H e will not be imposed upon knowing­
ly, but neither will be skimp. H e is a second mile man.
And the final mark is a fine reserve of powers and affections
for the most important things. The thoroughbred does first
things first. H e does not offer-his burnt offerings at every alter
he sees.

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Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping' but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own
—Lowell.

It is better to prefer honorable defeat to a mean victory, to lowering
the level of our aim that we may more certainly enjoy the complacency
of success.—John Ruskin.

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athletics
The Fall athletic work will be Base Ball, Tennis, Rugby
Socker and the beginning of Basket Ball.
A short time will be devoted to base ball, as long as teams
can be gotten for match games.
The tennis spirit is stronger this fall than ever before. There
is a continual scramble to occupy the four splendid courts back of
the gymnasium. Double and single tournaments will be played
among the boys and girls, as soon as the teams are well organized.
After the weather becomes a little cooler a short time will be
given to R ugby Socker, in which all the students can take part.
The basket ball season will open in the beginning of Novem­
ber. This is the Normal’s great season of the year and every
effort will be put forth to equal the record made by the team last
year, which made the strongest record that the school has enjoyed.
A few of the old men are back, and with several new men
who have the earmarks of fast floor men, Normal can begin with
very promising prospects.

Mir
alumni personals
’74.

Prof. S. C. Beitzel is Principal of the schools of Halifax,

’79.

Miss Sue Stutenroth teaches at Verona, N . J ., this year.

’85.

Mr. W . R. Sibbett is living in Oakland, California.

Pa.

’90. Mr. J. O. Russell, who has taught in the Major Bent
School, Steel ton, Pa., for a number of years, has been elected to
a position in Vineland, N . J., and this summer moved his family
to that place.
’90.

Miss Ella Sibbett is living at Jacksonville, Fla.

’93. Mrs. Hattie Shelley (Freeby), a teacher in the Carlisle
Schools, took some work in a teachers’ training class in Boston
during the summer.
’94. Mr. Robert Cunningham had charge of a Boys’ Camp
in Maine during the summer, and will return to Stevens Institute,
Hoboken, N . J., this year.

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’94. Mr. D. Harper Sibbett, who has been in the Hawaiian
Islands for the past few years, is now an Examiner of the Legal
Division of the U. S. Reclamation Service, at Washington, D. C.
Mr. Sibbett and wife visited his old home, Shippensburg, this sum­
mer. Both he and his wife are'graduates of the University of
Michigan, class of 1907.
’94. Mr. W . S. Hafer, of St. Thomas, Pa., who has been at­
tending Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa., goes this year
to Elkland, Tioga County, as Supervising Prin. of the public
schools.
’95. Mrs. Mary G , Rhodes (Broad), is living at South Fork,
Pa., where her husband, D r.J. G. Broad, is a practicing physician.
’95. Mrs. Elorence Hollar (Mackay) lives at 31 x E . Lan­
caster A ve., Wayne, Pa.
’9 5 .' For a number o f years we had lost track of Rev. H . E.
Walhay, but learned recently that he is pastor of the Methodist
Church at Bryn Mawr, Pa.
’96.
Texas.

Mrs. Grace Sibbett (Owens) is living at E l Campo,

’96. Mrs. Lou Martin (Iliff), of Germantown, Pa., went
abroad with her husband during the summer and spent some time
in London.
’96. Mr. E- M. Gress, of Swissvale, Pa., spent some time in
Fulton County this summer, visiting his old home.
’97. Mr. J. Harvey Martin, 467 E . K ing St., Chambersburg,
P a ., is working for the International Harvester C o ., having Frank­
lin and Fulton Counties as his territory.
’97. Mr. O. A . Pressel is Cashier of the Citizens’ National
Bank, Warren, Pa.
’97. Mrs. Nannie Johnston (Holland), Eastyille, V a., sends
us her H e r a l d subscription, for which we say “ Thanks.”
’99. Mrs. Mary Bash (Bartlett), Camillus, N . Y ., visited her
parents in Shippensburg during the summer.
’99. Mrs. Helen Myers (Peffer) is living on a farm near
Newville, Pa.
’00.

Miss Marietta Menear, of Dillsburg, l^as been elected as

one of the teachers in the Grammar School of New Cumberland,
Pa.

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' ’oo. Mr. Percy T . Hoffheins is proprietor of a lunch room
Market St., York, Pa.

oil W .

’o i. Mr. Edward H . Reisner is Prof, of Philosophy and
Education at Washington College, Topeka, Kansas.
’o i. Miss Maude Miller, formerly of Hampton, Pa., is living
in Gettysburg.
’o i. Mr. Chas. G . Boyer is a physician in Easton, Pa., 1035
Wash. St.
’03. Miss Minnie Reisner is teaching in McConnellsburg,
Pa., this year.
’03. Mr. Ira Mellinger is a clerk with the Nesta Machine
Co., Wilkinsburg, Pa.

’04. Mr. F. A . Arnold sends us his H erald subscription
and says he is taking Agronomy and Dairy Husbandry, a six
weeks’ course at the University of Mich.
Mr. Arnold is married and has two children. H e says
any one prepared for agricultural or manual training work
should come west, as there is plenty of opportunity for such.
’04. Mr. Ralph Jacoby, former Prin. at New Cumberland,
goes to Mechanicsburg, Pa., as principal this year.
’05. Miss Leila M cCullock is teaching in the Indian School
at Penbrook, N . C. Her address is Penbrook, N . C., Box 75.
’05.

Mrs. Grace LeFevre (Scott) lives at Los Angeles, Calif.

’05.

Mr. Lewis S. Bortner writes us from Farmingdale,

N .J .:
Enclosed please find twenty-five cents for which send “ Th e
Normal School H e r a ld ” for one year.
I have been re-elected as principal of the Farmingdale Schools
for the ensuing school term, or for a period of seven years.
I just closed a very successful school year, having had eight
pupils to successfully pass the examination as prescribed by Dr.
Kendall, State Commissioner of New Jersey.
W ith best wishes for a very successful year for my Alm a
Mater.
Yours respty.,
L ewis S. Bortner , ’05.
’05.
Carlisle.

Miss Mary McCullough lives at 150 W . Pomfort St.,

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’05. The Personal Editor had a very pleasant visit with.
Miss Emma Haar this summer in Hanover, Pa. Miss Haar goes
to 410 S. 5th St., Camdem, N . J., this year to teach.
’05. Mr. W . D. Morton writes from 4x5-16 City National
Bank Building, Omaha, Nebr.
I have been connected with The Mutual Benefit Eife Ins. Co.
now for about a year, and enjoy the work very much. Since
coming west I have not taught except in the Y . M. C. A . night
school, where we had about 500 students. I was connected with
that four years, and requested to return this next year, but my
other duties require all my time. W ith kindest regards, I am,
Very respectfully,

W . D. M o r t o n .
’05. Miss Ethel Myers attended the University of Chicago
during the summer session.
’05.

Mr. G. C. Eyter is Principal at Port Royal, Pa.

’05. W e take the following from a Harrisburg paper:
Dr. and Mrs. Norman B. Reeser, who have been guests ot
their parents in Camp H ill, left for Kansas City and Eos Angeles,
and from that city to Santiago, Cuba, where the doctor has been
offered a very lucrative position. Previous to their departure
they were guests at a farewell dinner at the home of Mrs. Reeser’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. G . C. Gochnauer, of Camp Hill.
Mrs Reeser was Miss Carrie Gochnauer, of Camp H ill, Pa.
’06.
catalogue.
there.

Mr. 'Paul B. Ziegler writes from Waco, Texas for a
W e would be glad to know in what he is engaged

’06. Mr. Samuel Kuhn is a Flagman on the C. V . Railroad
and lives in Chambersburg, Pa.
’07.

Miss Emma Dohner is teaching at Conemaugh, Pa.

’07.

Mrs. Bess Rhodes (Johns) is living in Newport, Pa.

’07. Miss Besse H . Myers of Hancock, Md., is teaching 7th
grade in Ambler, Pa.
’07.

Mrs. Carrie Bream (Bream) is living at Idaville, Pa.

’07.

Mrs. Eaura Kraber (Nace) has moved from Hanover

to Woodsboro, Md., where her husband is agent for the Pennsyl­
vania Railroad.
’08. Mr. Eloyd Shoap has left the teaching profession and
is employed in the Hershey Chocolate works at Hershey, Pa.

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’08.

Miss Mary Ferree is teaching at Pittman, N . J.

’08.

Miss Alice M. H ays is teaching 4th grade at Raritan,

N . J.

.

’08.

Miss Ethel Hays spent the summer in Chautauqua,

N . Y ., taking a Teacher’s Course.
N . J., this year.
’08.
home.

She goes to Pleasantville,

Miss Jennie Kuhn is teaching near Greencastle, her

’08.

Miss Grace Stumbaugh is teaching at Elizabethville, Pa.

’08.

Miss Helen Scouller is teaching in the grammar grade

at Newville, Pa.
’08. Mrs. Sadie Stumbaugh (Brumbaugh) lives in Chambersburg.
’08. Mr. John I*. Good, of New Cumberland, has entered his
second year in Medico Chi., Phila., Pa.
’09. Miss Edith McMeen is teaching in Coraopolis, Pa., 943
Second Ave.
’09. Mr. A . C. Shuck (State Certificate) goes this year as
Principal of the New Cumberland schools. H e was formerly the
Prin. at Newville.
’09.

Miss Esther Long, Shippensburg, Pa., took a course in

music in the University of New York during the summer.

St.

’09.

Miss Anna Brandt goes to Lakemont, Pa., this year.

’09.

Mr. Oliver F . Deardorff is living in York, Pa., Pine

He is in the office of the N.- C. Railroad Co.

Ǥ09.

Mr. Edgar Bowman goes to Linden, N . J.

’ 10. Mr. Andrew Witherspoon is taking a course in Civil
Engineering at the Boston Technical School.
Jfjfio.

Mr.

Floyd Cassel goes to New Kensington, Pa., as

Ward Principal this year.
’ 10.

Mr. W . V . Davis goes to Woodbury, Bedford county,

this year.
’ 10. Miss Grace Shimer will teach near Trenton, N . J.
Her address is Trenton, R. F . D .
’ 11.
Pa.

Miss Ethel Zimmerman will teach 6th grade at Ambler,

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’ xi.

Miss Verna Demuth will teach near Boiling Springs,

R. F . D . T .
’i i .

Miss Emma Vance took a six weeks course at Univer­

sity of Pennsylvania this summer.
’i i .

Mr. Frank Haiston is Assistant Principal at Oberlin, Pa.

’i i .

Mr. A . H. Coble goes to Elkland, Pa.
t
Mr. Preston E . Parmer has been re-elected to the

’i i .

schools of Enhaut, Pa.

As the July issue was devoted to Commencement affairs especially, ,
and we could not print the whereabouts of the 1902 class in that issue,
the Personal Editor has made a special effort in this issue to have as
many of the class of 1902 and the class of 1912 in the “ personal” list as
possible. Hereafter in every October number we will try to make a
special feature of these two classes.
The Personal Editor wishes to thank Mr.. Prank Myers, President
of the class of 1902, who corresponded with all the members of his class
and very kindly g-ave us all the information we print of the class of 1902.

1902
Mr. H . H . Beacham, 221 Third A v e |2 Altoona, Pa., has
taught ever since graduating with the exception o f two years,
when he was Book-keeper for the P. R. R. Co.
H e is now Ward
Prin. of the Washington Building, Altoona.
Miss Gail R. Bell has been teaching ever since graduating,
during the winters and occasionally attending a special summer
school. She lives near Gettysburg, Pa., R. F . D. 12.
Pa.

Mrs. Bess H ill (Bair) is living at 5530 Lawrence St., Phila.,
She taught for several years after graduating. Her husband

is at present engaged in research work.
Mrs. Helen Diven (Blessing) is living in Hummelstown, Pa.
She taught eight years after graduating, in Everett, New Bloom­
field and Hummelstown, Pa.
Mr. L- A . Bosserman taughtfor two years, after which he went
to Cambria County as clerk of a large Coal Co. In 1907 he went
to K y. as Treasurer Manager of a Coal Mining Co. In 1909 he
went to Expedit, Pa., where he has an interest in a large general
store.

H e is at present Sec. of the Corporation.

Miss Ardella M. Boyd, of Walnut Bottom, Pa., has been teach­
ing ever since graduation.

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Mrs. Grace Deardorff (Bream) taught for six
graduation. Is now living near Gettysburg.

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years after

Miss Elizabeth Cunningham has taught ever since graduating.
This year she is supervisor o f the primary grades in R ocky Moun­
tain, N . C.
Mrs. Ella Holtzinger (Edgar) writes from 507 W illow A ve.,
Altoona, that she has been assistant principal for seven years.
She has also had a summer in Europe, which she enjoyed very
much.
Miss Elsie E. Eisenhart taught five years in Patton, Pa., and
five years in Ebensburg, where she is now. Her position is A s ­
sistant Prin.
Miss Rhoda Grove (Fishel) taught seven years after gradu­
ating and was married in 1911 to Mr. W . E . Fishel. Th ey live
at X102 W . K ing St., York, Pa., where Mr. Fishel is in the Life
Insurance Business. Mr. Fishel taught three years, attended col­
lege three years and was in Montana two years, employed by the
Great Northern Railroad Co.
Miss Laura B. Fulton has taught most of the time since 1902.
T o o k a commercial course in Carlisle and was, for a time, book­
keeper for the Lindner Shoe Co., of Carlisle.
Mrs. Mabel W hite (Cunningham) taught five years and has
been married five years. Lives in Marysville, Pa.
Mrs Laura W hite (Geib) taught four years after graduating.
Is married and lives in Marysville, Pa.
Mr. Elmer H . Gingrich taught three years and since then has
a clerical position with the P. & R. R. R. Co. His address is
Palmyra.
Miss Alice Gray has taught in Cumberland County ever since
graduating. Her address is Carlisle.
Mrs. Blanche J. H oak (Greenawalt), of Lucknow, Pa., took
a course after graduating in the Harrisburg Business College and
was for a time bookkeeper for the Atlantic and Pacific Company
in Harrisburg. Blanche was married in 1906 and has one daughter
three years old.
Mr. S. E. Hershey taught four years after graduating, then
took a course in Lancaster Business College, and since 1906 has

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been in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., as cashier
in the freight office at Greensburg, Pa.
Mr. H . A . Hoke taught two terms and then went into the
poultry business. H e and his father now have a large poultry
farm at Spring Grove, Pa. The birds they raise are for exhibition
purposes.
Mrs. A lice Beck (Ivins) lives at Englishtown, N . J. She
taught in Pennsylvania for four years and then went to New Jersey
to teach. In 19n she was married and now lives on a farm near
the above place.
Mr. Andrew Jackson writes from New Buffalo that he taught
in grammar and high school for seven years, then was time keeper
for a contracting firm for two years, and for the last year has been
at home, owing to the death of his father.
Mr. W . J. Kines is living at 1609 Chestnut St., Harrisburg.
H e is in charge of the Philadelphia Quick Bunch.
Mr. John F. Kob, of 1435 Swatara St., Harrisburg, writes '
that he taught in the grammar school at Middletown for three
years, then was principal at Elizabethtown for six years. He is
now principal of the E. O. Foose Building, Harrisburg, Pa.
Mr. P. E- Hocker is principal of the Melrose Building in
Harrisburg, where he has been for three years.
Mr. F. B. Konhaus’, Mechanicsburg, says he has been farm­
ing and studying for the past ten years.
Mrs. Elizabeth McCuue (McClelland) is living at 1426 Macon
A ve., Swissvale Boro., Pittsburg. Before her marriage she took
a course in Kindergarten work, in N . Y . City.
Miss Edith McMorris has been teaching ever since graduating.
East winter she had a severe attack of typhoid fever. She has
recovered, however, and is teaching this year in Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Her home address is 636 Emerald St., Harrisburg, Pa.
Mr. Edgar A . Miller went to Gettysburg College after leaving
Normal, and graduated there in 1908. Since then he has been
taking a course in Johns Hopkins University and received his de­
gree of M. D. last June.
Hospital, Pittsburg.

This year he is Interne in St. Francis

Mr. Walter E. Noll has taught since graduating, in Falmouth>
Pa., McEwensville, Pa., in Bucknell University at Eewisburg, at

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Great Neck, Long Island, and at present is in Barringer’s H igh
School, Newark, N . J., in the Biological Dept. His address is 72
N . 4th St., Newark, N . J.
Mrs. Elsie Mountz (Noel), of Hoquiam, Washington, says she
taught at home for'two winters and then went west. In 1907 she
filed a homestead claim for a quarter section in New Mexico.
Was married in 1911 and now lives at the above place.
Miss Clara A . Potter of Athens, Pa., taught at home for a
while, and for the past two years has been teaching in Hammonton, N . J.
Miss F. Grace Plank, of Fairfield, Pa., has been teaching ever
since graduating.
Miss Frances Ridgway, ofUniontown, Pa., has been teaching
ever since graduating. A t present she has Civil Government and
Hygiene in the eighth grade.
Mr. H. M. Riddlesberger taught for three years and since that
time has been in the Auditing Dept, of the Geyser Mfg. Co., of
Waynesboro, Pa.
Miss Mabel K . Shryock, of 123 Locust A v e ., Long Beach,
Calif., taught for five years in Altoona, and since then has been
teaching in the above named place. She is twenty miles from Los
Angeles and has Mexicans and Spaniards in school.
Mr. Mervin E . Smith taught three years after leaving Normal,
had a course at Ursinus and then went to Gettysburg College and
graduated last year. H e is now a Lutheran Minister at Bloserville, Pa.
Mr. H. A . Stine writes from 1015 McCulloh St., Baltimore,
Md., that he is just about to take the medical state board exam­
inations both in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Says he wishes he
could bring his seven year old son along to lead the class yell.
H is home address is Cisna Run, Pa.
Miss M. Zula Swartz has taught every year since graduation
and is at present teaching primary grade in New Bloomfield, Pa.
Mrs. Grace Miller (Walters) taught for a few years after
graduating and then married and has lived in Shippensburg for'
several years. She entertained several o f the ’02 people over the
reunion.

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Mr. W illis A . Weaver has taught ever since leaving Normal
and also farming.
H e is at present teaching near Shippensburg.
Mr. Murray R. Whitcomb taught for six years, then was of­
fered a position with the Carlisle Trust Co., where he is at present.
Mr. J. E . Whorley writes from 1104 South Cameron St.,
Harrisburg, that in 1903 he completed the extra years’ work at
Normal. H e taught for a while, was book-keeper for Rummel,
Himes & Co., Shippensburg, for a time and is now book-keeper
for the Miller Bros. & Baker, Real Estate, Harrisburg, Pa. H e
was married in 1908 and has a little girl two years old.
Mrs. Edith Kapp (Williams) taught for seven years, then
was married and now lives in Hershey, where her husband is em­
ployed. She has a little daughter eighteen months old.
Miss Effie Williams has been teaching since graduation, the
last four years, in Bryn Mawr, where she goes this year. During
the summer she took a course in Supervisory W ork at Columbia
University, N . Y .
Mrs. Sue Peters (Wright) taught for a little time after gradu­
ation, then remained at home four years on account of her mother’s
health. Is married and lives in Breezewood, Pa.
Mr. Frank C. Myers, of whom we had an account in the July
issue, lives at 591 Ridge St., Newark, N . J.
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Ube Class of 1912
MiSs Anna Alexander is teaching near Spring Run, Pa.
Miss Edna R. Baer is teaching in West Fairview, primary
grade.
Miss Bess Bair is teaching in Mt. Union, Pa.
Miss Winona Baker goes to Clayton, N . J.
Miss Minerva Bare has a school at Cly, Pa., near home.
Miss Ruth Barner goes to Mt. Airy, Fulton county.
Miss Nettie Besecker teaches the New Baltimore school in
Franklin County.
Miss Blanche Boher teaches in Newark, N . J.
is 7 Broad St.

Her address

Miss Ella Bradley is Assistant Prin. of Dry Run H igh School.

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Miss Mary Brumbaugh is near Greencastle, Pa.
Miss Margaret Cope teaches near Shippensburg, Pa.
Miss C. Ella Daley teaches at Stony Point, near Shippensburg.
Miss Salome Dinterman has primary grade at Spring Grove,
Pa.
Miss Mary Disert is teaching in Waynesboro, Pa.
Miss Rhoda Dohner is teaching at Conemaugh, Pa.
Miss Jeannette E ssiik has Cold Spring primary school in
Franklin County.
Miss Ida E. Feiser has fourth, fifth and sixth grades at New
Oxford, Pa.
Miss Josephine Fleming has a school in Chambersburg, Pa.
Miss Helen Fogelsanger is teaching near Shippensburg.
Miss Alpha G ill is teaching near home, Hendricks, W . V a.
Miss Pearl Green goes to Tuckerton, N . J., in the primary
dept.
Miss Bertha Hollinger is teaching at Roadside, Franklin
Connty.
Miss Grace Hoffman is teaching at New Bloomfield, Pa.
Miss Leila G . Horn is teaching music in the Shippensburg
schools.
Miss Grace Karper teaches at Sunny H ill, near Shippensburg.
Miss Edith Kauffman will teach at Greenwood school near
Greencastle.
Miss Grace P. Keefer is a student at Normal.
Miss Martha Keeny is teaching at home, New Oxford, Pa.
Miss Sara Kidwell will teach in Everett.
Miss Gertrude Kraber goes to Hanover.
Miss Fern Lamberson teaches at Gracey, Fulton County.
Miss Ruth Long teaches fifth grade in Rockaway, N . J.
Miss Helen Love is near Oakville, Pa.
Miss Mary MacDannald is substitute in Shippensburg.
Mary would be glad to learn of any vacancies.
Miss Florence M cElroy teaches near home, Fayetteville, Pa.
Miss Viola McElhaire teaches at Woodstock, near Shippens­
burg.

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Miss Bess Miller will teach near Chambersburg.
Miss Verna Mouer has the first four grades in Petersburg,
N . J.

Her address is 624 Bay A v e ., Ocean City, N . J.

Miss Ramona Musgrave is teaching in Wilkinsburg.
Miss Bertha Myers is teaching at Clayton, N . J.
Miss Luella Oyler has Cold Spring Grammar school, near her
home, Fayetteville.
Miss Florence Poffinberger teaches near Lehmaster.
Miss Helen Schoenly teaches in Allentown, Pa.

Miss Grace Stull teaches in Waynesboro, Pa.
Miss Ethel Powell is at Mongul, near Shippensburg.
Miss Clara Shaffer is assistant in the Quincy H igh School.

Miss Clara Sheesley has Intermediate grade at Murray H ill,
N . J.
Miss Isabel Snively is teaching near Greencastle.
Miss Leon Thrush goes to Bridgeboro, N . J.
Miss Ethel Wolfe teaches near Newville.
Mr. Rush Benedict teaches Fairview Primary in Franklin
County.
M r. Paul Faupt teaches near home, Mowersville.
Mr. Albert Garland is Principal at Lehmaster.
Mr. Omar Hawbaker has a mixed school near Mercersburg.
Mr. Lester Hess is Principal at Rouzerville.
Mr. Donald Hoch goes to Highspire, Grammar Grade.
Mr. Frank Markley is attending Pratt Institute, Brooklyn,
N. Y.
Mr. Samuel Stouffer goes to Boiling Springs as Principal.
Mr. James Trostle teaches at Point Marion, Pa., V ice Prin­
cipal.
Mr. John Wampler goes to Everett, Pa.
Mr. Clarence Zepp has Wiermans school, Adams County.
Mr. Guy Thompson goes to Saxton, Pa., as Assistant Prin­
cipal.
Mr. Ira Hege teaches at home, Marion, Pa., primary grade.
Mr. George Foreman is principal at W altonville, Pa.

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Mr. Harry Foreman teaches Stoud’s school.
Mr. Walter Jobe has gone to Fort Morgan, Colorado, to join
his brother, Chas. T . Jobe.
Mr. Josef Harlacher teaches near home, East Berlin.
Mr. John Hetrick goes to a school near Millerstown, Pa.
Mr. Abram Stamy teaches near Mechanicsburg, Pa.
Mr. Percy W alker will teach near Waynesboro, Pa.
Miss Margaret Eessig goes to Bedford, Pa.
Mr. Clarke W . Schue is teaching Center School, near H an­
over, Pa.
Mr. Ralph Bentzel is teaching Myers No. 2 School, near
Hanover.
W e have not heard anything of Misses Christian and Seibert
and Mr. Charles, but presume they are teaching.

Engagement Bnnounceö
Th e engagement of Mr. D. C. Noonan, ’08, of Coulee City,
Wash., and Miss Lou A . Walker, ofFannettsburg, is announced.

Cupiö’s Column
K eller — S chubauer . A t Linglestown, Pa., Saturday,
September, 7 ,,Mr. Davis Cleveland Keller to Miss Katharine I.
Schubauer, ’06. T h ey are at home after September 14, at
Manada H ill, Pa.
H a r v e y — H a t f ie l d . In York, Sunday, June 23, by Rev.
E. L . Hughes, Mr. Harry S. Harvey to Miss Edna M. Hatfield,
of Scotland, Pa. Mrs. Harvey was a normal student two years
ago. Th ey will reside in Hummelstown, Pa.
F eidler — K y l e . A t Philadelphia, Pa., July 1, Mr. W . F . '
Feidler to Miss Mary K . K yle, ’o i . They live on Old York Road,
Philadelphia.
Phila.

Mr. Feidler is manager of Weisbrod & Hess of

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S towder — McN aughton .

A t 804 Sixth A v e ., Altoona,

Pa., August 28, by Rev. A . E . Wagner, Mr. W . W . Stowder to
Miss Carrie McNaughton, ’06. They will reside in Altoona, Pa.
Y oh e— Br a d y .

A t Williamsport, Pa., July 30, by Rev. L.

M. Brady, father of the bride, assisted by Rev. J. H . Yohe, brother
of the groom, Mr. Ira H . Yohe, ’04, to Miss Maud Brady,' ’09.
They will reside in Norristown, where Mr. Yohe is a teacher in
Scbissler Business College.
S t o r e r — Jo n e s .

A t Harrisburg, Pa., by Rev. J. D. Fox,

D . D., Mr. Robert M. Storer, of St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Minnie
A . Jones ’99, of Donnally Mills, Pa.

They will live in St. Louis,

Mo.
M a g il l — F l ic k in g e r .
A t Cairo, E gypt, August 1 5 , Dr.
Hugh R. Magill, of Khartum, Soudan, to Miss Marion L . F lick ­
inger, ’97. Dr. Magill is Superintendent of United Presbyterian
Hospital at Khartum, where they will reside. Miss Flickm ger
sailed from N . Y . on July 27 and reached E gyp t on August 15,

when they were married.
B e r r y — M y e r s . A t Middletown, Pa., September 3, Mr. C.
Bruce Berry, ’06, to Miss Frances J. Myers, of Harrisburg, Pa.
Th ey live in Shippensburg. Mr. Berry is employed by the Boher
furniture store.
K r u g — M e h r in g .

A t Littlestown, Pa., M ay 23, Mr. G.

Milton K rug to Miss Edna Mehring, ’07.
town, Pa.
p o x — B rown ,

They live at Littles­

A t Matawan, N . J ., July 15, by R ev. Bower,

Mr. A lvin F o x to Miss Marge Brown,' ’07.

Th ey live at Perth

Am boy, N . J.

S h e tte l — Be ist l in e .

A t Mechanicsburg, Pa., July 30,

Mr. George Shettel to Miss Pearl Beistline, ’97.

They live at

Mechanicsburg, R. F. D. 3.

H orn— L a w a ll .

A t Catasauqua, Pa., July, Mr. George

Horn to Miss Marion L- Lawall, ’08.

Th ey live at San Antonio,

Texas, Box 301.

F egan — Jacobs .

A t Hagerstown, Md., September 26, by

ReVi E . K . Thomas, Mr. John Fegan to Miss Mary C. Jacobs.
Miss Jacobs was a Middler at Normal last year.

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Ube Storft Column
E l y . A t Shippensburg Normal, September 5, to Prof, and
Mrs. George B. E ly, a daughter. Prof. E ly is Physical Director
m the Normal School.

S h e a ffe r . A t Williamsport, Pa., April, 1912, to Mr. and
Mrs. Sheaffer, a daughter.' Mrs. Sheaffer was Miss E lva Myers
’03.
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W h it e . A t Shermansdale, Pa., March 23, to Mr. and Mrs
James W . White, a daughter. Mr. W hite was a member o f the
class of ’ 10.
H offman . A t Eykens, Pa., June, 1912, to Mr. and Mrs
Harry H . Hoffman, a daughter. Mr. Hoffman was a member of
the class o f ’ 10.
E amberson . A t McConnellsburg, Pa., June, 1912, to Mr.
and Mrs. B. C. Eamberson, a son. Mr. Eamberson was a member
o the class of ’98, and is the present County Superintendent oi
Fulton County.
E c k e l s . A t New Brunswick, N . J., August 3, to Prof, and
Mrs. George H . Eckels, a son. Mrs. Eckels was Miss Nettie B
Roop, ’96, and Prof. Eckels was o f the class o f ’91. H e is a son
of former Principal of Normal Dr. G. M. D. Eckels.
B ower .
Bower, a son.

Ne l l .
Nell, a son.

A t Berkeley, California, July 7 , to Mr. and Mrs.
Mrs. Bower was Miss Miriam Burkhart, ’04.

A t St. Ignatius, Montana, March 18, to Mr. and Mrs.
Mrs. Nell was Miss Maude Smith, ’06.

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S t a r r y . A t Westfield, N . J.', August, 1912, to Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Starry, a son. M r. Starry was a member of the class o f ’06.
K eg err eis . A t Fannettsburg, Pa., July, 1912, to Mr. and
Mrs. Kegerreis, a daughter. Mrs. Kegerreis was Miss Blanche
Johnston, ’oo.
B urkholder . A t Bloserville, Pa., August 10, to Mr. and
Mrs. H . E. Burkholder, a son. Mr. Burkholder was a member
of the class of ’o i.
D ohner .
Dohner, a son.

A t Elizabethville, Pa., to Mr. and Mrs. A . J.
Mrs. Dohner was Miss Nora Fisher, ’07.

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’77.
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Samuel Y . Karmany, Boilder Creek, Calif., died June,

W e are sorry not to be able to give any particulars of this

death.

W e have only the fact of death.
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William H . Bailey, ’05, died July 10, 1912..
W e are indebted to Mrs. Jamison, of Shippensburg, aunt o f
Mr. Bailey, for the following account:
William H . Bailey was born July 19, 1886, at Shabbona,
Illinois, and died at Plano, Illinois, July xoth, 1912, at 7:40 P. M.
H is early life was spent in Plano, attending the public schools until
the age of fourteen. Then his health began to fail and he came
to Shippensburg, thinking a change would be beneficial. W hile
here he made his home with his aunt, Mrs. Em ily J. Jamison,
who gave him a mother’s care. H e attended the C. V . S. N . S.,
from which he graduated in 1905. H e next attended the Carlisle
Commercial College, Carlisle, Pa., and then went to Chicago,
obtaining employment with Street’s Western Stable Car Line, as
stenographer, which place he filled for three years. Then he was
promoted to the General Office as their Surplus Buyer, serving in
that capacity four years.
Nearly two years ago his health began to fail, but he con­
tinued at his work until five weeks ago, when his mother com­
pelled him to go home with her. H e suffered greatly, but never
uttered a complaint and was ever fearful of causing extra work or
worry to the loving ones who ministered to his wants. Kind,
loving, generous and never an unkind word for anyone has been
the life of this young man, the pride and comfort of his father and
mother, and loved and respected by all who knew him.
Th e funeral was held from his home in Plano, Illinois, Sat­
urday afternoon, July 13, at 2:30.
His aunt, Mrs. Mattie M.
Bailey, of Shippensburg, had gone W est to help care for him.
H e also leaves an aunt, Mrs. Em ily J. Jamison, and a cousin,
Miss Catharine Bailey, both of Shippensburg, and a cousin, Mrs.
J. S. Johnson, o f Owosso, Mich.

THE NORMAE SCHOOL HERALD

ITf—
I f you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
I f you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
I f you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise.
I f you can dream— and not make dreams your master;
I f you can think— and not make thoughts your aim,
I f you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
I f you can bear to hear the word you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop to build ’em up with worn-out tools.
I f you can make one heap of all your winnings
A nd risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
A nd lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
I f you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
T o serve your turn long after they are gone,
A nd so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the W ill which says to them:

“ Hold on!”

I f you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings— nor lose the common touch,
I f neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
I f all men count with you, but none too much;
I f you can fill the unforgiving minute
W ith sixty seconds’ worth o f distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And— what is more— y o u ’ll be a Man, my son.

R u d ya r d K ip l in g .

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