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OF THE EbiNBORO STATE NORMAE SCHOOL
Volume II
SATURDAY, JUNE 28 1913
Commencement Day.
The "great, the important day" especially
in the eyes of parents and relatives, was
Wednesday—Commencement Day. At ten
o’clock the members of the class marched to
their places, Mr. Baker, Mr. Siddell and the
chosen Commencement speakers took their
places on the platform and the program began.
The speakers held the close and interested
attention of the audience throughout and the
orations were of an unusually high order of ex
cellence. Principal Baker, in awarding the
diplomas, made a forceful, direct and impressive
address, emphasizing the responsibility of the
teacher and the supreme importance of chraacter as a positive and individual development.
Mr. Siddell, in his thoughtful and pertinent
address to the candidates for the second
diploma, dwelt upon the need for rational
optimism in the teacher’s life, gave some facts
from the report of the Sage Foundation rather
startling to Pennsylvania educational self-com
placency, and closed by some sound and in
spiring advice to the class presenting Itself for
permanent diplomas. As the class rose for
the last time to sing, "Stand Once More in
Your Places," a sobered sense of the realiza
tion of the significance of the day seemed to
come to the class and the tone of sadness that
always undersings the outward gayety of Coiymencement festivities began to be plainly heard.
At the close of the singing the class filed ovbr
the stage to receive its diplomas, through the
library and out upon the campus where it
formed a circle, passing the diplomas from
hand to hand until each member had received
his own. As he did so, he dropped out and
the circle lessened until the last parchment had
reached its owner. The members of the class
then held an informal reception, receiving the
congratulations of faculty, relatives and friends,
and Commencement Day of 1913 was over.
The Commencement program appears below:
Coronation March.. ____________ _______ Meyerbeer
Orchestra
No. 20
Invocationt .................. —...................Rev. Mr. Shreve
Egypdan Mi
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Orchestra
Oration ..._____ 'An Ever Needed Remedy*
. Helen Bathurst
Oration
__ 1................. *The Results of Avarice"
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Adlia Dickey
Oration .‘i.---------------- - . —.................... "Fiction*
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Doris Amidon
Orahott..;:........... ----------- - -....... "What w Truth"
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Charles White
Sonj|',.-.^l__ _ — "Hall to Thee, Our Alma Mater"
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Class
------------ "Our Greatest Heritage"
Quincey Vincent
Oration - .'_54---------------------------------"Unseen Beauty*
Mabelle Sammons
Or^ion.v>i....--------------- "An American Ideal!
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^*Marion Judd
Orirfipa..
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Ora^dn - - _____ ‘Charles
"TheMarsh
Country School Problem"
Wl^idrs -V..............— -. .......... ....................... Dean
r
Orchestra
Adi&W to Graduates........................................ Mr. Baker
Addtpss to Candidates for Second Diploma, Mr. Siddell
So^..v.
......... "Stand Once More in Your Places"
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"Domine Salvam Fac"
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Class
Presentation of Diplomas
, froin "The Prophet*Meyerbeer
Orchestra
Page Two
THE BIRCH ROD
An American Ideal.
(Commencement Oration by Marian Judd.)
It was "far from the edge o’ cultivatioa" that
fifty settlers broke land and sowed crops here
in 1 797. Among these settlers was a widow
with her two sons, who took up four hundred
acres just south of the present site of Edinboro,
where they built a crude log shanty and cleared
land. In the fall the mother "retraced her way
to the Susquehanna" to bring her three other
children. Durmg their mother’s absence the
two boys lived alone, within reach of only one
neighbor, and carried all their supplies on their
backs over the long snow drifted trail from
Waterford. One of these heroic boys was
James Campbell, afterward a man instrumental
in obtaining a charter from the legislature for
an academy here. Their sister was the mother
and grandmother of the men who have done
so much, that we might say everything for this
school and community. Later from civilized
Massachusetts to this unbroken land in Penn
sylvania came another group of people. In the
last twenty-four hours of their six weeks joainey
one family covered fifty miles, the mother riding
horseback and the fourteen year old girl driving
cows. Because of the superb heroism of people
such as these, today we are able to stand here
prepared to begin our work. Not to clear
away forests, but to preserve them; not to settle
new lands but to improve those we have; not
to found schools, but to teach them and teach
them well. It is left for us to further their
plans, to advance their standards, to work out
the ideals for which they sacrificed and toiled
and spared no cost.
Tc^ay I want to talk not of our ideals and
visions, but of the ideals and visions of these
pioneers, made into realities from which we
derive the benefit. Our visions are small com
pared with theirs, our dreams of accomplishment
are insignificant measured with what they did
accomplish. ^'Sixty years is a short time for the
evolution of a dense uncultivated forest to a
farming community, prosperous enough to make
possible the building of a school." But this is
exactly what they accomplished, these untirmg
workers managing farms, sawmg timber, laying
out streets, building houses and constructing
roads. Almost before the great task of building
stage lines to Waterford and Erie had been
completed, the leaders began to talk of educa
tion above the common school. "But the faith
that moveth mountains" had to be aided by
much talking and counseling among the friends
of education. There were difficulties that
would look insurmountable to anyone except
these rugged men of action. Less than 400
people made up the population of the com
munity, and these were far from rich. Im
planted in he minds and hearts of these men
was a spirit that made for success, that same
spirit of progress that had compelled their
fathers to "go west."
Sj Commercial Hall yonder today is not
merely "one of our buildings." Think of it as
"The Academy," a memorial to the greatest
accomplishment of one generation and the in
spiration of the next.
The pzissing of the Normal Act, 1857 by
the Legislature of Pennsylvania suggested to
them the idea of enlarging the Academy and
securing the Normal school for this district. It
seemed a wild dream because Waterford, much
superior on account of its railroad, its newspaper,
and its thirty-year-old academy, laughed sccrnt
fully at "Edinboro trying to get the Normal
School over there in the woods." There was
no tarrying or waste of time, but the work was
begun immediately. An earnest endeavor on
the part of the far sighted few, a gift of the
necessary land (by Mr. Reeder) and generosity
on the part of the townspeople to the extent
of self-sacrifice, made possible the building of
an Assembly hall (now Science) and one
dormitory.
Success seemed to be almost theirs, but the
state law demanded another building and that
all debts be paid. In the raising of this last
$ 10,000, is shown all of that brave cheerful
ness, unquenched hopefulness, indomitable
courage and unswerving faith of those early
pioneers. Isaac Taylor, one of the most re
sourceful of the leaders, spent almost the entire
winter riding from farm to farm, urging people
to help, showing them that their co-operation
was necessary, and making clear that this was
to be their institution. This was not easy for
him to do. He had his own farm and mills to
oversee, yet his heart and soul were with the
school, and it is for us to be thankful that he
persevered. He says, "The word fail is not
known among us." This must h^ve been his
slogan all that winter long. Now every person
was roused and determined to succeed. Each
and every one cast in his mite. Young men
earning only ten shillings a day kept for them
selves only enough to buy food. Richer men
gave as much as one-eighth of all their property.
In a community that had already raised $3600
for an Academy, and $3,000 for additional
buildings, it was no weakling’s task to raise
$10,000 to meet the state’s requirements.
That the citizens of this village did that, that
the fathers and mothers of many in this room
had such faith, stands, it seems to me, as a
great cause for pride, a great insp iration to
service and a great challenge to us as workers
in the world’s service.
On the ail important night when the state
inspectors were to decide the results of the
untold work and sacrifice of the past three
years, the excitement was electric. Even a
bitter January blizzard did not prevent the
townspeople from assembling in crowds. In the
morning during the inspection of the courses
of study, the examination of the grounds and
buildings and investigation of curricula, three
hundred on-lookers breathlessly awaited the
verdict' By the afternoon it became more
evident that the inspectors were more favorably
impressed and the mass meeting that evening
resulted in formal declaration of this school to
be the Northwestern Slate Normal School for
the 12 th district.
It is a simple story and a story common to
other villages, but because it is preeminently a
story of American ideals, of the American
spirit, of that pioneer spirit the world over, I
have repeated to you the details. The story
of their self-forgetting heroism and untiring de
votion to a cause from which only future gen
erations were to derive benefit, is one to stand
beside the story of American educational be
ginnings as they have been known on every
frontier. It was a story repeated here from
Massachusetts and Connecticut. It is a story
that has been repeated since in Iowa, Nevada,
Kaittas and Washington, Because it is our
own story, because, classmates, this is our day,
I review it here as a clarifier of our vision, as a
cementing force for our loyalty to our little fos
tering mother that rests here on the crest of the
continent; finally, 1 have reviewed it as a pat
tern for those present, village and school, who
as they go away from here, must remain be"
hind and build as the fathers built, not for the
present only, but for those multitudes yet to
come.
Edinboro State Normal School
STANDS FOR
A HIGH STANDARD OF SCHOLARSHIP
THE AMATEUR SPIRIT IN ATHLETICS
WHOLESOME SOCIAL ASSOCIATIONS
IT ALSO
BELIEVES IN AND SUPPORTS
The Birch Rod
Address the Principal
Edinboro, Pa.
THE BIRCH ROD
Page Three
ALUMNI NOTES.
Maye Geer ’ 10, has been teaching in Fron
tier, Neb., the past year and will hold the saine
position.
Miss Ethel Amidon *10, who has been
teaching in Frontier, Wyoming, is now spend
ing her vacation at her home in Edinboro.
She expects to teach in Frontier again this year.
M. M. Mackintosh ’ 10, expects to teach in
Midvale, Idaho, this coming year.
A. M. McCommons '10, who has been
teaching at Milgrade, Nebraska, and John L.
McCommons, who has been teaching in Grage,
Nebraska, are in Edinboro for a few days.
Both expect to go back west this year.
Greater Erie's Greater Store—Boston Store
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Miss Mildred Sadler ’ 12 is visiting her sister,
Wilda.
Charlie Cook '08, was a Commencement
visitor. Mr. Cook graduated from Grove City
College in *12. He has been teaching in
Ford City and will retain the ' same position
B
next year.
C. Marion Negus ’12, was visiting E. S. N.
S. a few days last week.
Victor Snapp ’ 12 and Charles A. Kough
were both Edinboro visitors during Commence
ment week.
Kathryn Rouche will teach in Kemmerer.
Frank Sayre ’08, during the coming school
year, will be assistant principal of Princeton
High school. Mr. Sayre will attend Princeton
University evenings.
Carl Holder 12 is going to be principal of
Cranesville High school this next year.
Mary Crossman ’12 expects to teach in
Clarendon this year.
Bertha Gde ’ 1 1 is going to teach the Hor
ton school. Union township, near Union City.
Ruby Caufol ’1 1 is going to teach the inter
mediate grades of the Wattsburg High school.
Pearl Gehrmg ’1 1 has a position for the
coming year in Redondo Beach, Cal.
Ogle Kline ’ 1 1 expects to teach at Walker’s
Comers.
Lenore Gillespie ’ 1 1 will be in Belle, Pa.,
next year.
Martha Sayre ’ 12 is going to teach in New
Richmond.
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A Comfortable
Store
A large, roomg comfortable store in which to do
gour shopping—that is what we claim for the BOSTON
STORE. In considering the comfort and convenience
of our customers, we have studied how best we could
arrange store facilities to make this the most attract
ive store in Erie in which to do pour trading.
Our out of town customers we have had particularlg in mind and we have provided Rest Rooms, Bu
reau of Information, etc., for their comfort. You mag
have gour wraps and other parcels checked at the In
formation Bureau, Main Floor, thus leaving gou unemcumbered when doing gour shopping.
Then the Din
ing Room in the Basement gou will find most restful
and cheerful after a shopping four. Regular Dinner
served dailg and lunches at all times. You would not
expect better or tastier cooking in gour own home than
gou will find in our dining room.
The merchandise of a store, of course, is the
backbone of its success, and we claim larger and bet
ter assorted stocks and as low if not lower prices than
gou will find elsewhere.
To the students of Edinboro Normal and their
friends especiallg we extend an invitation to make the
BOSTON STORE gour store home.
Clara Saunders ’ 11 will teach in Athens
township.
Mary McCullough ’12 is going to teach
Kiser Hill school, Crawford county.
Helen Loomis ’12 is going to retain the
same position she had last year, teaching the
second room of Albion High school. Miss
Loomis has a large school and enjoys her
teaching very much.
ERIE DRY GOODS CO.,
State Street, Erie, Pa.
Page Four
THE BIRCH ROD
THE BIRCH ROD
A fortnightly newspaper edited by the stu
dents of The Edinboro State Normal
School, and published at the print
shop of the Edinboro
Independent.
TERMS—This newspaper will be supplied for the
school year, 1912-13, for the sum of fifty cents, or
five cents a copy.
This paper is entered as second-class mail matter at
the postoffice at Edinboro, Pa.
EDITORS
Erma Gebhart, ’14--------------------- ... Elditor-in-Chief
Arnold Nelson, ’14----------------------- ...Assistant Editor
STAFF
Carlyn Blakeslee, ’I4-................... .. __ Athletic Editor
Lucy Lamb, ’14-------------------------- ____ News Elditor
Ethel Howland, ’15-------------------- ...Alumni Editor
Fay Daley, ’15---------------------------- .. Ejtchange Editor
John Harbaugh ’15---------------------- __ _____ Manager
Jerome Rusterholtz, ’15---................. Assistant Manager
Union Meeting Literary Societies.
The joint meeting of the two literary
societies held Saturday evening in Normal
Hall was well attended. The program was
one of the best given by either society this
year and was enjoyed greatly by all. Pro
gram:
ReadingEldna Sammons, Potter
£jsay____________ ______ _______ Ruth Kidder, Philo
Vocal Solo-................................. Arthur Johnson, Potter
Newspaper________________ ______ EUla Mays, Philo
£sjay____________ _____ Gretchen Grimminger, Potter
Orchestra ........... - - -...................- -................... Selection
The Ice Cream Social.
A beautiful night and a beautiful moon;
dainty little tables under the trees and dainty
young waitresses near by; electric lights and
Japanese lanterns; beautiful music by the
orchestra and rollicking selections by the
graphaphone; delicious strawberry and vanilla
ice cream and plenty of people to eat it.
These were the main features of the ice cream
social given by the Y. W. C. A. last Monday
night. It proved to be a great success both
financially and socially and all who attended
considered it an evening well spent.
The Junior Senior Reception.
The seniors are supposed to be a dignified
body of young people but even the wisest and
stateliest are liable to lose their dignity and be
merry with the merriest. They have even
been known to anticipate things with the
curiosity of freshmen.
Such was the case when the invitatation
cards to the Junior reception were received.
Dictionaries and faculty both were consulted
Innumerable times to find what a "Soiree"
was, and how to pronounce it. The reception
was held in the gymnasium which had
miraculously lost its barren appearance.
Decorations consisted of a large square sus
pended in the center of the room from which
streruners of crepe paper in senior class colors
were draped to the balcony, about which
pennants were hung. Three attractive booths
were decorated in daisies, ferns and buttercups
and Junior colors, brown and gold. One of
the most interesting features was the cozy
corner at one end of the gymnasium which, of
course, was reserved for the faculty.
Soon after their arrival the guests were con
ducted to a booth and presented with favors
which, if one were brave enough to open,
even though they did resemble fire crackers,
were found to contain tiny charms and paper
caps of bright colors, all very becoming
A grand march was organized and directed
by Mr. Hayes in which every one joined. It
ended in a game of "Tucker wants a Wife."
Punch was served throughout the evening and
a few short dances ended the entertainment,
the orchestra furnishing music. At 10:30 the
party reluctantly separated and the Junior re
ception of 1913 was an event of the past.
"Watch Us Grow"
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I Osborne - Norman Co.
Erie s
Leading Readg-to- Wear
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Specialists
Coats
$8.50 up to $35.00
Suits
$10.00 up to $45.00
Baccalaureate Sermon.
The Senior class was very fortunate in se
curing the Rt. Rev. Bishop Robert Israel, of
the Diocese of Erie, to deliver the Baccalaur
eate sermon, Sunday morning, June 22.
After the congregation had assembled, that
dignified body of people, the Seniors, arrayed
in somber caps and gowns, marched in and
filled the seats roped off for them with their
colors, red and blue.
The full order of service is given below:
OISTINCTIOJImDRCtf.
Music______________________
Orchestra
Hywn No. 1_______
-Congregation
Prayer
____ __________________Rev. C. H. Sweet
Quartet"Rejoice, the Lord is King"
Scripture Reading________ _____ ___Rev. Ivan Shreve
Quartet______ ______ - -"Be Glad, O Ye Righteous"
Sermon.................. ............................Bishop Rogers Israel
Hymn No. 56.______
Congregation
Benediction____ _____ ________ Rev. Frank B. Bonner
Music..............................
Orchestra
The evening address was delivered by the
Rev. Bruce Wright, of the Simpson Methodist
church, of Erie, before the religious associa
tions of the school. It was greatly appreciated
by the many students and friends in attendance.
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Erie’s Fastest Growing
Department Store
1024-26-28 State St.
Osborne - Norman Co.
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ERIE, PA.
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Page Five
THE BIRCH ROD
The Exhibit.
Home of Good Shoes
Footwear
Elegance
For
Young
Women
No departments of the Edinboro Normal
School deserve more honorable mention than
those of manual training and domestic science.
They stand for plenty of work but have some
thing to show for the labor and time put into
them. The greater share of the success due
these departments is the result of the unfailing
efforts of the very efficient teachers, Mr. Frost
and Miss Powell. It has taken no small
amount of work to teach students to make the
various articles of furniture and fancy work
which are shown in the manual training rooms
during commencement week.
The exhibit of manual training work shows
a large display of furniture, the variety ranging
from a kitchen cabinet to a glove box. These
articles are well made and the inconspicuous
as well as the more noticeable parts are neatly
finished.
The work done in the domestic science de
partment is a credit to the school and shows
much painstaking effort on the part of both
teacher and student.
TYask
Prescott &
Richardson Co.
9th and State Streets
ERIE, PA.
DISTRIBUTORS OF
HIGH GRADE MERCHANDISE
AT POPULAR PRICES
Graduating Recital of Miss Mary Squier.
Better, Daintier, or More
Elegant Footwear than
we are now showing
has never been
made
This fact is well proven bp the
great interest that women who
know are taking in our display.
The real swell shoes come in
patent, dull or tan leather, with
all the new style effects worked
to the limit
Price, $3.00, $3.50, $4.00, $4.50
TROST & LACEY
Home of Good Goods
828 STATE ST, ERIE, PA.
On the evening of June 21, in Normal Hall,
a very appreciative audience listened to the
recital given by Miss Mary Squier. Miss
Squier was assisted by pupils of the oratory
department.
All the readings were very
well given, while too much cannot be said in
praise of Miss Squier s beautiful interpretation /
of the difficult music. The following was the
program given.
PART I
Kamennoi Ostrow—Piano------------------------Rubenstein
Miss Squier
"The Little Boy Who Was Scart o' Dyin’"—Reading
Miss Elizabeth Fowler
Witches Dance—Piano--------------------------- McDowell
Miss Squier
"Voice From a Far Country"—Reading------------Miss Helene Jackson
Nocturne op. 9 No. 2 - Piano----------Chopin
Miss Squier
"The Lost Word" —Reading_______ Henry VanDyke
Miss Edna Sammons
A Department Store where con
fidence in the goodness of the
merchandise sold enables us to
say, “ Your money back on any
unsatisfactory purchase.”
We
attribute our success to the giv
ing of the best values at prices at
all times lowest on dependable
goods. An ever increasing busi
ness is ample proof that this as
sertion is so.
New merchandise on display.
PART II
"The Fiddler Told"—Reading_____ Nora C. Franklin
Miss Helen Bathurst
Concerto in G minor—Two Pianos_____ Mendelssohn
Miss Squier, first piano
Miss Thomas, second piano
When a bit of sunshine hits ye
After passin' of a cloud
When a fit of laughter gits ye
And your spine is feelin’ proud
Don’t fergit to up an’ fling it
At a soul that’s feelin’ b4ue
For the minit that ye sling it
It’s a boomerang to you.
"The bee that gets the honey doesn’t loaf
around the hive."
Trask
Prescott &
Richardson Co.
9th and State Streets
ERIE, PA.
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Page Six
THE BIRCH ROD
BASE BALL TEAM, 1913
Edinboro Wins.
The Varsity won the game with the alumni,
Saturday, June 21, by the close score of 3—2.
The game was at all times close, the alumni
being in the lead until the fourth inning when
their luck changed.
The attendance and applause of the loyal
Normal rooters was wonderful. The game
started with a rush, Dundon hitting the first
ball pitched for a safe line drive over short,
advancing slowly he brought in the first run for
the alumni. The alumni players worked well
together and displayed a "never die" spirit
throughout the entire game.
The Varsity did not play their accustomed
agressive game as there has been no regular
practice for the last two weeks, on account of
exams. Although the hitting was a little weak,
they showed flashes of speed, at times, m the
field. Drake made a sensational catch of a
high fly and Jewell a wonderful stop of a
"skimmer” through second. Hood deserves
special mention, as this was his first varsity game
and he played like a veteran. He succeeded
in getting four put outs and garnered Normal’s
only hit which was a hot grounder just inside
3rd sack.
’This game ends the baeeball season of 1913,
which has been one of the most successful in
in the history of the school. Not successful
from the standpoint of games won but from the
standpoint of the good showing our team has
made against teams from higher classed schools.
We have not a paid man on our baseball
squad, a fact which few of our rivals can boast of.
Much of this years success is due to the un
tiring efforts of our manager, Fay Daley and of
the captain, Archie Drake, ivho have done all
we could possibly ask of them, and more.
Too much cannot be said of the excellent
work of Coach Hayes. He has given every
man a square deal who came out regularly and
obeyed the rules of the association. All through
the year he has shown that spirit so rarely
found in coaches; always on the field in unifonn,
playing the hardest, and always giving a word
of advice and encouragement. He spared him
self no pain to keep the players m good con
dition and also the grounds, even though he
had to use the shovel and hoe himself.
Through the columns of the "Birch Rod" we
wish to express our appreciation of his work
and we are very glad to know he is to be
with us again next year.
Alumni
a.b. r. h. p. o.
Dundon, 2d..................................... 4
1 I 4
St. John, c....................................... 4 0 0 6
McGobb, c. f................................... 4 0 0 I
Hall. 3d................
4 0 0 4
J. McCommin, 1. f........................... 4 0 0 0
Blair, 8. 8........................................... 4 0 0 6
A. McCoimmin, Ut........................ 3 0 1 4
Jo8lin, p.............................
3
I 1 0
, Hutchison, r. f.................................. 3 0 0 2
Totals..............'.......................33
2
3 27
a. e.
4
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
I
0
2
2
1
1
0
0
5
7
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S. N. S.
Fuller, 1. f......................................
De Remer, 1st.................................
Babcock, r. f....................................
Drake, c .........................................
Ross, p.................................
Jewell, 8.8........................................
Trejchel,3d.....................................
Green, c. f........................................
Hood, 3d......................^..................
4
4
4
4
3
3
3
3
3
Totals.............................31
Struck our—By
balls Off Ross, 1;
don to McCommin,
pitcher—Joslin, I.
Umpire— Stokes.
0 0
1 0
0 0
5 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 14 2
1 0
2 1
0 0 0 1
10 12
1 0 0 0
0 14 0
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0
0
1
1
0
0
1
0
3
4
1 27
5
Rose, 12; by Joslin, 6. First on
off Joslin, 2. Double plays—Dun2; Blair to McCommin. Hit by
Time of game—I hour 57 minutes.
On Thursday, June 12, members of the
baseball team who had played in three full
games or parts of four, were presented with
the official N. Coach Hayes expressed his
appreciation of the team for its faithfulness at
practice and for the clean games played. In
making the presentation of the letters, Mr.
Baker congratulated the boys, not only on
playing ball successfully, but on playing the
man, the while. He praised their loyalty and
splendid school spirit shown in carrying out
their schedule despite the many obstacles and
disappointments it included: Although the
number of games won was not many, it reflects
no discredit on the work of the team. The
school is proud of its nine, and extends its
gratitude for the honor they have brought to
our Alma Mater.
Page Seven
THE BIRCH ROD
Moving Up Day.
Class Day.
Moving Up Day was carried out with the
usual amount of tradition and ceremony neces
sary to satisfy the undergraduates, who pre
sented a smile in chapel for the first time this
year. Freshies are over all their abuses and
shameings from upper classmen. Sophomores
threw off their curious religious attitude, and
the Juniors brushed their shoes and combed
their hair, for they were in a new world.
The Seniors stood amused, pleased and re
joiced with the poor "boobs" over what they
had celebrated just one year before.
The formality was finally broken when
Professor Cooper celebrated his semi-centen
nial chapel address. He told many tales of
the old students who had since "made good”
in the turmoil of school teaching.
Following Professor Cooper’s address the
exercises were were put in the hands of the
Seniors, whose worthy representative, Karl
Joslin, handed down the properties, rights and
privileges of the Seniors, also giving the
Juniors good advice and the numberless tips
necessary to successful avoidance of the "da-da"
committee, which hears no reasons, accepts no
excuses, and hzis no sense of justice.
The Juniors thanked the Seniors in the re
ply of Mr. Titsler, who accepted for the Juniors
all the good advice, and prophesied for the
class of 1913a brilliant and successful future.
The Seniors sang the songs of the class
while they marched out, and the annnal mov
ing up day closed its chapel exercises with
proud feelings of work well done.
Class Day belongs exclusively to the Seniors
by prescriptive and traditional right.
The
exercises were begun at two o’clock in the
auditorium. The Philo orchestra, resplendent
in white with red ties, played an opening se
lection and then the march, to the strains of
which the seniors, preceded by Sayre ’ 14,
marched to their places.
Arthur Johnson,
president of the class, presided with dignity,
and gave with pertinence and force his official
address. The spoon oration, replete with sage
counsel to underclassmen, was given by Hubert
Bentley, who departed from the usual vein of
such speeches and held the interested attention
of his hearers throughout. The spoon was
accepted by Nevin Carman in a brief but
pointed address. Miss Marian Maffit’s history
was excellently given—new also in conception
and form, as was the prophecy by Miss Alice
Walker who, thrown by "Professor Donati"
into a cataleptic state, saw various scenes in the
subsequent career of members of the class, and
described them with her characteristic humor
and mimicry of individual foibles. Particularly
clever and effective was the climax of the
trance in which the embarrassment of the
"Professor" v as a source of much merriment
to the initiated.
The pantomime by the
Misses Sammons, Whiting, Crandall, Bathurst,
Agnew, Boyle and Proudfit, with Miss Markle
reading Browning’s "Romance of the Ganges,"
and Miss Lois Williams at the piano, was ad
mirably done. After the exercises indoors,
the class marched out to the pine tree before
Normal hall, where, grouped in a circle on the
grass, they listened to the Ivy oration by Don
ald Richey, who gave an address of remarka
ble power and interest. The scene is one that
ought to recur vividly to the recollection of
members of the class in the years to come,
when their thoughts go back to that sunny
June afternoon long ago when their class day
ended with the picture of the throng of visit
ors clad in gay summer colors, the green grass
and maples, the sobered and sombre group of
capped and gowned classmates, the red walls
of Normal hall standing silent in the afternoon
sunshine, and then with the swell of the fa
miliar "Stand Once More in Your Places," and
"Domine Salvam Fac." The complete pro
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EDINBORO, PA.
gram was:
Music-------- -----------Orchestra
President’s Address............................ .. .Arthur Johnson
Spoon Oration_____ ____ ___________ Hubert Bentley
Juniors’ Reply —................................... .. .Vincent Hays
Class Song
Class History........... ......................... ...........Marion Maffitt
Pantomime
Music----------Orchestra
Class Prophecy......................................... .. ..Alice Walker
March......................................
Orchestra
Ivy Oration_____________ ______ Donald Richey____
"Stand Once More in Your Places," "Domine,
Salvan Fac"_________________
Class
It’s a store that was founded
in 1852 on such principles
that have built for Erie
a great store.
,
THESE
PRINCIPLES
ARE:
Recommending nothing which is
not a true value; if found other
wise, a return of goods and re
fund of moneg.
Alwags on the lookout for the new
things, and when such things
are created in the fashion cen
ters of the world that co-operate
with good stgle and good judg
ment, theg're brought forth and
recommended to gou, and noth
ing that represents an exhorbitant profit
A force of intelligent sales people
striving to be of service to gou.
A store where visitors are welcome
the same as customers to stroll
about and feel at the same ease
as theg would in their own
homes.
WARNER BROS.,
ERIE, PENN'A
Page Eight
THE BIRCH ROD
Schluraff Floral Co.
Leave all orders for
flowers with The Birch
Rod. We order them
free of charge bg tele
phone.
MASONIC TEMPLE
ERIE, PA.
People’s Barber Shop
J. H BENNETT, Prop.
Shaving
Hair Cutting
Shampooing
NEWS DEPOT.
DAILY and SUNDAY.
PAPERS
'
Students atwaps welcome
DANNY SULLIVAN
Ladies' and Gents'
TAILOR
Suits Cleaned and Pressed
50c_ _ _ _
NEW SONG
A Grand Success
WINDS of MEMOR Y
Written from Edinboro
Normal School daps.
Send 15 cents for a copp.
MRS. D. G. CHURCH
Mesilla Park, New Mexico
Edinboro Hotel
E. J. SWANSON, Prop'r
Meals and Lunches at all
Hours.
ICE CREAM : SOFT DRINKS
PROUDS
Little White Store on the Corner
Lownep’s Box Candp
Ice Cream, Soft Drinks
Fruits, Cigars,
Magazines
School Supplies
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Senior Play.
The comedy drama, ‘‘Diamonds and Hearts,”
was given on Tuesday evening by the Seniors
before an audience that filled the auditorium to
overflowing. The parts were well sustained
throughout and the play was one of the most
successful ever given here. Miss Bauman's
careful and thorough drill were in constant evi
dence. Hawkin’s orchestra played. The
caste was:
Bernice Halstead, a young lady of eighteen, with
an affection of the heart, a love of fun and a
hatred of arithmetic...............................Marjorie Fisher
Amy Halstead, her sister, two years younger, fond
of frolic............................................................. NinaSwift
Inez Gray, a young "lady visitor, and willing to
share in the fun................................... Mabel Sammons
Mrs, Halstead, a widow, and step-mother to the
Halstead girls..........................................Mildred Joslin
Hannah Mary Barnes, or "Sis," a maiden lady
who keeps house for her brother..........Verna Marke^
B. R. Kline '91, answered. Prof. J. A.
Cooper spoke, lauding the present Faculty and
pledging his support to the Normal until the
end.
Mrs. Angie Downing responded to
"Edinboro of the Olden Days" and J. H.
Holmes spoke on "Edinboro School Days."
J. C. Borland '88, J. W. Philips ’ 10, Rev.
Dr. D. S. Johnson '80, Mrs. Chloe Swift
McLallen '78, and H. Bentley ’ 1 3, represented
their respective classes. Prof. Baker closed
the speaking with a short address on "The
Edinboro Normal and its Future Policy."
Alumni Day is felt by all to have been a
success and arrangements are already being
made to make next year’s reunion an even
greater success.
Dwight Bradley, a fortune hunter, and Mrs.
Halstead’s son by a former marriage.. ..Ward Marsh
Dr. Burton, a young physician..................... Charles Scott
Sammy, the darky bell boy at the Halstead
house................................................................ Ethel Case
Abraham Barnes, or "Bub," a Yankee farmer,
still unmarried at forty, a diamond in the
rough...................................................
John Scott
^
Attorney.................... ............................Quincey Vincen^
Sheriff........................................................... Charles Marsh
Alumni Reunion.
Scores of the old boys and girls reassembled
at Edinboro Tuesday, June 24, to meet old
school mates and give the boys and girls of to
day a new view of the spirit of Edinbor o.
Members of many classes, from '63, repre
sented by J. N. McCloskey, to '12, returned.
The sunshine from above was added to the
sunshine on the faces of old and young alike,
and the spirit of good fellowship fitting to the
occasion prevailed.
At 10:30 the Alumni Association met in
Music hall and transacted the business for the
coming year. Officers were elected as follows:
President, Hubert Bentley '13; vice president,
Floyd Bathurst ’ 10; secretary, Francis Burch
field '00; treasurer. Dean Swift, '95; execu
tive committee, Harry Weaver 'II, Amy
Wilder '12, Herman Sackett '02, Elizabeth
Carver 'II, Roy Simpkins '08.
Resolutions were adopted regarding the good
will of the Alumni toward the present adminis
tration and expressing the respect of the Alumni
for J. A. Cooper, founder of the school. Inter
esting verbal reports were made by representa
tives of Edinboro reunions held at various county
institutes.
At 1 P. M. the annual alumni banquet, given
by the trustees, was held in Haven Hall. As
usual no effort was spared to make the place
homelike and to give all who attended an en
joyable time.
After the dinner President
George Taylor, of the Edinboro Board of
Trustees gave the speech of welcome which
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Volume II
SATURDAY, JUNE 28 1913
Commencement Day.
The "great, the important day" especially
in the eyes of parents and relatives, was
Wednesday—Commencement Day. At ten
o’clock the members of the class marched to
their places, Mr. Baker, Mr. Siddell and the
chosen Commencement speakers took their
places on the platform and the program began.
The speakers held the close and interested
attention of the audience throughout and the
orations were of an unusually high order of ex
cellence. Principal Baker, in awarding the
diplomas, made a forceful, direct and impressive
address, emphasizing the responsibility of the
teacher and the supreme importance of chraacter as a positive and individual development.
Mr. Siddell, in his thoughtful and pertinent
address to the candidates for the second
diploma, dwelt upon the need for rational
optimism in the teacher’s life, gave some facts
from the report of the Sage Foundation rather
startling to Pennsylvania educational self-com
placency, and closed by some sound and in
spiring advice to the class presenting Itself for
permanent diplomas. As the class rose for
the last time to sing, "Stand Once More in
Your Places," a sobered sense of the realiza
tion of the significance of the day seemed to
come to the class and the tone of sadness that
always undersings the outward gayety of Coiymencement festivities began to be plainly heard.
At the close of the singing the class filed ovbr
the stage to receive its diplomas, through the
library and out upon the campus where it
formed a circle, passing the diplomas from
hand to hand until each member had received
his own. As he did so, he dropped out and
the circle lessened until the last parchment had
reached its owner. The members of the class
then held an informal reception, receiving the
congratulations of faculty, relatives and friends,
and Commencement Day of 1913 was over.
The Commencement program appears below:
Coronation March.. ____________ _______ Meyerbeer
Orchestra
No. 20
Invocationt .................. —...................Rev. Mr. Shreve
Egypdan Mi
i;-'
Orchestra
Oration ..._____ 'An Ever Needed Remedy*
. Helen Bathurst
Oration
__ 1................. *The Results of Avarice"
I v*
Adlia Dickey
Oration .‘i.---------------- - . —.................... "Fiction*
?_< > V
Doris Amidon
Orahott..;:........... ----------- - -....... "What w Truth"
;'
.
Charles White
Sonj|',.-.^l__ _ — "Hall to Thee, Our Alma Mater"
y
Class
------------ "Our Greatest Heritage"
Quincey Vincent
Oration - .'_54---------------------------------"Unseen Beauty*
Mabelle Sammons
Or^ion.v>i....--------------- "An American Ideal!
‘,
■“
^*Marion Judd
Orirfipa..
___ -
y--
Ora^dn - - _____ ‘Charles
"TheMarsh
Country School Problem"
Wl^idrs -V..............— -. .......... ....................... Dean
r
Orchestra
Adi&W to Graduates........................................ Mr. Baker
Addtpss to Candidates for Second Diploma, Mr. Siddell
So^..v.
......... "Stand Once More in Your Places"
'
"Domine Salvam Fac"
t'
Class
Presentation of Diplomas
, froin "The Prophet*Meyerbeer
Orchestra
Page Two
THE BIRCH ROD
An American Ideal.
(Commencement Oration by Marian Judd.)
It was "far from the edge o’ cultivatioa" that
fifty settlers broke land and sowed crops here
in 1 797. Among these settlers was a widow
with her two sons, who took up four hundred
acres just south of the present site of Edinboro,
where they built a crude log shanty and cleared
land. In the fall the mother "retraced her way
to the Susquehanna" to bring her three other
children. Durmg their mother’s absence the
two boys lived alone, within reach of only one
neighbor, and carried all their supplies on their
backs over the long snow drifted trail from
Waterford. One of these heroic boys was
James Campbell, afterward a man instrumental
in obtaining a charter from the legislature for
an academy here. Their sister was the mother
and grandmother of the men who have done
so much, that we might say everything for this
school and community. Later from civilized
Massachusetts to this unbroken land in Penn
sylvania came another group of people. In the
last twenty-four hours of their six weeks joainey
one family covered fifty miles, the mother riding
horseback and the fourteen year old girl driving
cows. Because of the superb heroism of people
such as these, today we are able to stand here
prepared to begin our work. Not to clear
away forests, but to preserve them; not to settle
new lands but to improve those we have; not
to found schools, but to teach them and teach
them well. It is left for us to further their
plans, to advance their standards, to work out
the ideals for which they sacrificed and toiled
and spared no cost.
Tc^ay I want to talk not of our ideals and
visions, but of the ideals and visions of these
pioneers, made into realities from which we
derive the benefit. Our visions are small com
pared with theirs, our dreams of accomplishment
are insignificant measured with what they did
accomplish. ^'Sixty years is a short time for the
evolution of a dense uncultivated forest to a
farming community, prosperous enough to make
possible the building of a school." But this is
exactly what they accomplished, these untirmg
workers managing farms, sawmg timber, laying
out streets, building houses and constructing
roads. Almost before the great task of building
stage lines to Waterford and Erie had been
completed, the leaders began to talk of educa
tion above the common school. "But the faith
that moveth mountains" had to be aided by
much talking and counseling among the friends
of education. There were difficulties that
would look insurmountable to anyone except
these rugged men of action. Less than 400
people made up the population of the com
munity, and these were far from rich. Im
planted in he minds and hearts of these men
was a spirit that made for success, that same
spirit of progress that had compelled their
fathers to "go west."
Sj Commercial Hall yonder today is not
merely "one of our buildings." Think of it as
"The Academy," a memorial to the greatest
accomplishment of one generation and the in
spiration of the next.
The pzissing of the Normal Act, 1857 by
the Legislature of Pennsylvania suggested to
them the idea of enlarging the Academy and
securing the Normal school for this district. It
seemed a wild dream because Waterford, much
superior on account of its railroad, its newspaper,
and its thirty-year-old academy, laughed sccrnt
fully at "Edinboro trying to get the Normal
School over there in the woods." There was
no tarrying or waste of time, but the work was
begun immediately. An earnest endeavor on
the part of the far sighted few, a gift of the
necessary land (by Mr. Reeder) and generosity
on the part of the townspeople to the extent
of self-sacrifice, made possible the building of
an Assembly hall (now Science) and one
dormitory.
Success seemed to be almost theirs, but the
state law demanded another building and that
all debts be paid. In the raising of this last
$ 10,000, is shown all of that brave cheerful
ness, unquenched hopefulness, indomitable
courage and unswerving faith of those early
pioneers. Isaac Taylor, one of the most re
sourceful of the leaders, spent almost the entire
winter riding from farm to farm, urging people
to help, showing them that their co-operation
was necessary, and making clear that this was
to be their institution. This was not easy for
him to do. He had his own farm and mills to
oversee, yet his heart and soul were with the
school, and it is for us to be thankful that he
persevered. He says, "The word fail is not
known among us." This must h^ve been his
slogan all that winter long. Now every person
was roused and determined to succeed. Each
and every one cast in his mite. Young men
earning only ten shillings a day kept for them
selves only enough to buy food. Richer men
gave as much as one-eighth of all their property.
In a community that had already raised $3600
for an Academy, and $3,000 for additional
buildings, it was no weakling’s task to raise
$10,000 to meet the state’s requirements.
That the citizens of this village did that, that
the fathers and mothers of many in this room
had such faith, stands, it seems to me, as a
great cause for pride, a great insp iration to
service and a great challenge to us as workers
in the world’s service.
On the ail important night when the state
inspectors were to decide the results of the
untold work and sacrifice of the past three
years, the excitement was electric. Even a
bitter January blizzard did not prevent the
townspeople from assembling in crowds. In the
morning during the inspection of the courses
of study, the examination of the grounds and
buildings and investigation of curricula, three
hundred on-lookers breathlessly awaited the
verdict' By the afternoon it became more
evident that the inspectors were more favorably
impressed and the mass meeting that evening
resulted in formal declaration of this school to
be the Northwestern Slate Normal School for
the 12 th district.
It is a simple story and a story common to
other villages, but because it is preeminently a
story of American ideals, of the American
spirit, of that pioneer spirit the world over, I
have repeated to you the details. The story
of their self-forgetting heroism and untiring de
votion to a cause from which only future gen
erations were to derive benefit, is one to stand
beside the story of American educational be
ginnings as they have been known on every
frontier. It was a story repeated here from
Massachusetts and Connecticut. It is a story
that has been repeated since in Iowa, Nevada,
Kaittas and Washington, Because it is our
own story, because, classmates, this is our day,
I review it here as a clarifier of our vision, as a
cementing force for our loyalty to our little fos
tering mother that rests here on the crest of the
continent; finally, 1 have reviewed it as a pat
tern for those present, village and school, who
as they go away from here, must remain be"
hind and build as the fathers built, not for the
present only, but for those multitudes yet to
come.
Edinboro State Normal School
STANDS FOR
A HIGH STANDARD OF SCHOLARSHIP
THE AMATEUR SPIRIT IN ATHLETICS
WHOLESOME SOCIAL ASSOCIATIONS
IT ALSO
BELIEVES IN AND SUPPORTS
The Birch Rod
Address the Principal
Edinboro, Pa.
THE BIRCH ROD
Page Three
ALUMNI NOTES.
Maye Geer ’ 10, has been teaching in Fron
tier, Neb., the past year and will hold the saine
position.
Miss Ethel Amidon *10, who has been
teaching in Frontier, Wyoming, is now spend
ing her vacation at her home in Edinboro.
She expects to teach in Frontier again this year.
M. M. Mackintosh ’ 10, expects to teach in
Midvale, Idaho, this coming year.
A. M. McCommons '10, who has been
teaching at Milgrade, Nebraska, and John L.
McCommons, who has been teaching in Grage,
Nebraska, are in Edinboro for a few days.
Both expect to go back west this year.
Greater Erie's Greater Store—Boston Store
to
Ml
m
Miss Mildred Sadler ’ 12 is visiting her sister,
Wilda.
Charlie Cook '08, was a Commencement
visitor. Mr. Cook graduated from Grove City
College in *12. He has been teaching in
Ford City and will retain the ' same position
B
next year.
C. Marion Negus ’12, was visiting E. S. N.
S. a few days last week.
Victor Snapp ’ 12 and Charles A. Kough
were both Edinboro visitors during Commence
ment week.
Kathryn Rouche will teach in Kemmerer.
Frank Sayre ’08, during the coming school
year, will be assistant principal of Princeton
High school. Mr. Sayre will attend Princeton
University evenings.
Carl Holder 12 is going to be principal of
Cranesville High school this next year.
Mary Crossman ’12 expects to teach in
Clarendon this year.
Bertha Gde ’ 1 1 is going to teach the Hor
ton school. Union township, near Union City.
Ruby Caufol ’1 1 is going to teach the inter
mediate grades of the Wattsburg High school.
Pearl Gehrmg ’1 1 has a position for the
coming year in Redondo Beach, Cal.
Ogle Kline ’ 1 1 expects to teach at Walker’s
Comers.
Lenore Gillespie ’ 1 1 will be in Belle, Pa.,
next year.
Martha Sayre ’ 12 is going to teach in New
Richmond.
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A Comfortable
Store
A large, roomg comfortable store in which to do
gour shopping—that is what we claim for the BOSTON
STORE. In considering the comfort and convenience
of our customers, we have studied how best we could
arrange store facilities to make this the most attract
ive store in Erie in which to do pour trading.
Our out of town customers we have had particularlg in mind and we have provided Rest Rooms, Bu
reau of Information, etc., for their comfort. You mag
have gour wraps and other parcels checked at the In
formation Bureau, Main Floor, thus leaving gou unemcumbered when doing gour shopping.
Then the Din
ing Room in the Basement gou will find most restful
and cheerful after a shopping four. Regular Dinner
served dailg and lunches at all times. You would not
expect better or tastier cooking in gour own home than
gou will find in our dining room.
The merchandise of a store, of course, is the
backbone of its success, and we claim larger and bet
ter assorted stocks and as low if not lower prices than
gou will find elsewhere.
To the students of Edinboro Normal and their
friends especiallg we extend an invitation to make the
BOSTON STORE gour store home.
Clara Saunders ’ 11 will teach in Athens
township.
Mary McCullough ’12 is going to teach
Kiser Hill school, Crawford county.
Helen Loomis ’12 is going to retain the
same position she had last year, teaching the
second room of Albion High school. Miss
Loomis has a large school and enjoys her
teaching very much.
ERIE DRY GOODS CO.,
State Street, Erie, Pa.
Page Four
THE BIRCH ROD
THE BIRCH ROD
A fortnightly newspaper edited by the stu
dents of The Edinboro State Normal
School, and published at the print
shop of the Edinboro
Independent.
TERMS—This newspaper will be supplied for the
school year, 1912-13, for the sum of fifty cents, or
five cents a copy.
This paper is entered as second-class mail matter at
the postoffice at Edinboro, Pa.
EDITORS
Erma Gebhart, ’14--------------------- ... Elditor-in-Chief
Arnold Nelson, ’14----------------------- ...Assistant Editor
STAFF
Carlyn Blakeslee, ’I4-................... .. __ Athletic Editor
Lucy Lamb, ’14-------------------------- ____ News Elditor
Ethel Howland, ’15-------------------- ...Alumni Editor
Fay Daley, ’15---------------------------- .. Ejtchange Editor
John Harbaugh ’15---------------------- __ _____ Manager
Jerome Rusterholtz, ’15---................. Assistant Manager
Union Meeting Literary Societies.
The joint meeting of the two literary
societies held Saturday evening in Normal
Hall was well attended. The program was
one of the best given by either society this
year and was enjoyed greatly by all. Pro
gram:
ReadingEldna Sammons, Potter
£jsay____________ ______ _______ Ruth Kidder, Philo
Vocal Solo-................................. Arthur Johnson, Potter
Newspaper________________ ______ EUla Mays, Philo
£sjay____________ _____ Gretchen Grimminger, Potter
Orchestra ........... - - -...................- -................... Selection
The Ice Cream Social.
A beautiful night and a beautiful moon;
dainty little tables under the trees and dainty
young waitresses near by; electric lights and
Japanese lanterns; beautiful music by the
orchestra and rollicking selections by the
graphaphone; delicious strawberry and vanilla
ice cream and plenty of people to eat it.
These were the main features of the ice cream
social given by the Y. W. C. A. last Monday
night. It proved to be a great success both
financially and socially and all who attended
considered it an evening well spent.
The Junior Senior Reception.
The seniors are supposed to be a dignified
body of young people but even the wisest and
stateliest are liable to lose their dignity and be
merry with the merriest. They have even
been known to anticipate things with the
curiosity of freshmen.
Such was the case when the invitatation
cards to the Junior reception were received.
Dictionaries and faculty both were consulted
Innumerable times to find what a "Soiree"
was, and how to pronounce it. The reception
was held in the gymnasium which had
miraculously lost its barren appearance.
Decorations consisted of a large square sus
pended in the center of the room from which
streruners of crepe paper in senior class colors
were draped to the balcony, about which
pennants were hung. Three attractive booths
were decorated in daisies, ferns and buttercups
and Junior colors, brown and gold. One of
the most interesting features was the cozy
corner at one end of the gymnasium which, of
course, was reserved for the faculty.
Soon after their arrival the guests were con
ducted to a booth and presented with favors
which, if one were brave enough to open,
even though they did resemble fire crackers,
were found to contain tiny charms and paper
caps of bright colors, all very becoming
A grand march was organized and directed
by Mr. Hayes in which every one joined. It
ended in a game of "Tucker wants a Wife."
Punch was served throughout the evening and
a few short dances ended the entertainment,
the orchestra furnishing music. At 10:30 the
party reluctantly separated and the Junior re
ception of 1913 was an event of the past.
"Watch Us Grow"
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Erie s
Leading Readg-to- Wear
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Specialists
Coats
$8.50 up to $35.00
Suits
$10.00 up to $45.00
Baccalaureate Sermon.
The Senior class was very fortunate in se
curing the Rt. Rev. Bishop Robert Israel, of
the Diocese of Erie, to deliver the Baccalaur
eate sermon, Sunday morning, June 22.
After the congregation had assembled, that
dignified body of people, the Seniors, arrayed
in somber caps and gowns, marched in and
filled the seats roped off for them with their
colors, red and blue.
The full order of service is given below:
OISTINCTIOJImDRCtf.
Music______________________
Orchestra
Hywn No. 1_______
-Congregation
Prayer
____ __________________Rev. C. H. Sweet
Quartet"Rejoice, the Lord is King"
Scripture Reading________ _____ ___Rev. Ivan Shreve
Quartet______ ______ - -"Be Glad, O Ye Righteous"
Sermon.................. ............................Bishop Rogers Israel
Hymn No. 56.______
Congregation
Benediction____ _____ ________ Rev. Frank B. Bonner
Music..............................
Orchestra
The evening address was delivered by the
Rev. Bruce Wright, of the Simpson Methodist
church, of Erie, before the religious associa
tions of the school. It was greatly appreciated
by the many students and friends in attendance.
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Erie’s Fastest Growing
Department Store
1024-26-28 State St.
Osborne - Norman Co.
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THE BIRCH ROD
The Exhibit.
Home of Good Shoes
Footwear
Elegance
For
Young
Women
No departments of the Edinboro Normal
School deserve more honorable mention than
those of manual training and domestic science.
They stand for plenty of work but have some
thing to show for the labor and time put into
them. The greater share of the success due
these departments is the result of the unfailing
efforts of the very efficient teachers, Mr. Frost
and Miss Powell. It has taken no small
amount of work to teach students to make the
various articles of furniture and fancy work
which are shown in the manual training rooms
during commencement week.
The exhibit of manual training work shows
a large display of furniture, the variety ranging
from a kitchen cabinet to a glove box. These
articles are well made and the inconspicuous
as well as the more noticeable parts are neatly
finished.
The work done in the domestic science de
partment is a credit to the school and shows
much painstaking effort on the part of both
teacher and student.
TYask
Prescott &
Richardson Co.
9th and State Streets
ERIE, PA.
DISTRIBUTORS OF
HIGH GRADE MERCHANDISE
AT POPULAR PRICES
Graduating Recital of Miss Mary Squier.
Better, Daintier, or More
Elegant Footwear than
we are now showing
has never been
made
This fact is well proven bp the
great interest that women who
know are taking in our display.
The real swell shoes come in
patent, dull or tan leather, with
all the new style effects worked
to the limit
Price, $3.00, $3.50, $4.00, $4.50
TROST & LACEY
Home of Good Goods
828 STATE ST, ERIE, PA.
On the evening of June 21, in Normal Hall,
a very appreciative audience listened to the
recital given by Miss Mary Squier. Miss
Squier was assisted by pupils of the oratory
department.
All the readings were very
well given, while too much cannot be said in
praise of Miss Squier s beautiful interpretation /
of the difficult music. The following was the
program given.
PART I
Kamennoi Ostrow—Piano------------------------Rubenstein
Miss Squier
"The Little Boy Who Was Scart o' Dyin’"—Reading
Miss Elizabeth Fowler
Witches Dance—Piano--------------------------- McDowell
Miss Squier
"Voice From a Far Country"—Reading------------Miss Helene Jackson
Nocturne op. 9 No. 2 - Piano----------Chopin
Miss Squier
"The Lost Word" —Reading_______ Henry VanDyke
Miss Edna Sammons
A Department Store where con
fidence in the goodness of the
merchandise sold enables us to
say, “ Your money back on any
unsatisfactory purchase.”
We
attribute our success to the giv
ing of the best values at prices at
all times lowest on dependable
goods. An ever increasing busi
ness is ample proof that this as
sertion is so.
New merchandise on display.
PART II
"The Fiddler Told"—Reading_____ Nora C. Franklin
Miss Helen Bathurst
Concerto in G minor—Two Pianos_____ Mendelssohn
Miss Squier, first piano
Miss Thomas, second piano
When a bit of sunshine hits ye
After passin' of a cloud
When a fit of laughter gits ye
And your spine is feelin’ proud
Don’t fergit to up an’ fling it
At a soul that’s feelin’ b4ue
For the minit that ye sling it
It’s a boomerang to you.
"The bee that gets the honey doesn’t loaf
around the hive."
Trask
Prescott &
Richardson Co.
9th and State Streets
ERIE, PA.
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Page Six
THE BIRCH ROD
BASE BALL TEAM, 1913
Edinboro Wins.
The Varsity won the game with the alumni,
Saturday, June 21, by the close score of 3—2.
The game was at all times close, the alumni
being in the lead until the fourth inning when
their luck changed.
The attendance and applause of the loyal
Normal rooters was wonderful. The game
started with a rush, Dundon hitting the first
ball pitched for a safe line drive over short,
advancing slowly he brought in the first run for
the alumni. The alumni players worked well
together and displayed a "never die" spirit
throughout the entire game.
The Varsity did not play their accustomed
agressive game as there has been no regular
practice for the last two weeks, on account of
exams. Although the hitting was a little weak,
they showed flashes of speed, at times, m the
field. Drake made a sensational catch of a
high fly and Jewell a wonderful stop of a
"skimmer” through second. Hood deserves
special mention, as this was his first varsity game
and he played like a veteran. He succeeded
in getting four put outs and garnered Normal’s
only hit which was a hot grounder just inside
3rd sack.
’This game ends the baeeball season of 1913,
which has been one of the most successful in
in the history of the school. Not successful
from the standpoint of games won but from the
standpoint of the good showing our team has
made against teams from higher classed schools.
We have not a paid man on our baseball
squad, a fact which few of our rivals can boast of.
Much of this years success is due to the un
tiring efforts of our manager, Fay Daley and of
the captain, Archie Drake, ivho have done all
we could possibly ask of them, and more.
Too much cannot be said of the excellent
work of Coach Hayes. He has given every
man a square deal who came out regularly and
obeyed the rules of the association. All through
the year he has shown that spirit so rarely
found in coaches; always on the field in unifonn,
playing the hardest, and always giving a word
of advice and encouragement. He spared him
self no pain to keep the players m good con
dition and also the grounds, even though he
had to use the shovel and hoe himself.
Through the columns of the "Birch Rod" we
wish to express our appreciation of his work
and we are very glad to know he is to be
with us again next year.
Alumni
a.b. r. h. p. o.
Dundon, 2d..................................... 4
1 I 4
St. John, c....................................... 4 0 0 6
McGobb, c. f................................... 4 0 0 I
Hall. 3d................
4 0 0 4
J. McCommin, 1. f........................... 4 0 0 0
Blair, 8. 8........................................... 4 0 0 6
A. McCoimmin, Ut........................ 3 0 1 4
Jo8lin, p.............................
3
I 1 0
, Hutchison, r. f.................................. 3 0 0 2
Totals..............'.......................33
2
3 27
a. e.
4
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
I
0
2
2
1
1
0
0
5
7
i.
S. N. S.
Fuller, 1. f......................................
De Remer, 1st.................................
Babcock, r. f....................................
Drake, c .........................................
Ross, p.................................
Jewell, 8.8........................................
Trejchel,3d.....................................
Green, c. f........................................
Hood, 3d......................^..................
4
4
4
4
3
3
3
3
3
Totals.............................31
Struck our—By
balls Off Ross, 1;
don to McCommin,
pitcher—Joslin, I.
Umpire— Stokes.
0 0
1 0
0 0
5 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 14 2
1 0
2 1
0 0 0 1
10 12
1 0 0 0
0 14 0
I
0
0
1
1
0
0
1
0
3
4
1 27
5
Rose, 12; by Joslin, 6. First on
off Joslin, 2. Double plays—Dun2; Blair to McCommin. Hit by
Time of game—I hour 57 minutes.
On Thursday, June 12, members of the
baseball team who had played in three full
games or parts of four, were presented with
the official N. Coach Hayes expressed his
appreciation of the team for its faithfulness at
practice and for the clean games played. In
making the presentation of the letters, Mr.
Baker congratulated the boys, not only on
playing ball successfully, but on playing the
man, the while. He praised their loyalty and
splendid school spirit shown in carrying out
their schedule despite the many obstacles and
disappointments it included: Although the
number of games won was not many, it reflects
no discredit on the work of the team. The
school is proud of its nine, and extends its
gratitude for the honor they have brought to
our Alma Mater.
Page Seven
THE BIRCH ROD
Moving Up Day.
Class Day.
Moving Up Day was carried out with the
usual amount of tradition and ceremony neces
sary to satisfy the undergraduates, who pre
sented a smile in chapel for the first time this
year. Freshies are over all their abuses and
shameings from upper classmen. Sophomores
threw off their curious religious attitude, and
the Juniors brushed their shoes and combed
their hair, for they were in a new world.
The Seniors stood amused, pleased and re
joiced with the poor "boobs" over what they
had celebrated just one year before.
The formality was finally broken when
Professor Cooper celebrated his semi-centen
nial chapel address. He told many tales of
the old students who had since "made good”
in the turmoil of school teaching.
Following Professor Cooper’s address the
exercises were were put in the hands of the
Seniors, whose worthy representative, Karl
Joslin, handed down the properties, rights and
privileges of the Seniors, also giving the
Juniors good advice and the numberless tips
necessary to successful avoidance of the "da-da"
committee, which hears no reasons, accepts no
excuses, and hzis no sense of justice.
The Juniors thanked the Seniors in the re
ply of Mr. Titsler, who accepted for the Juniors
all the good advice, and prophesied for the
class of 1913a brilliant and successful future.
The Seniors sang the songs of the class
while they marched out, and the annnal mov
ing up day closed its chapel exercises with
proud feelings of work well done.
Class Day belongs exclusively to the Seniors
by prescriptive and traditional right.
The
exercises were begun at two o’clock in the
auditorium. The Philo orchestra, resplendent
in white with red ties, played an opening se
lection and then the march, to the strains of
which the seniors, preceded by Sayre ’ 14,
marched to their places.
Arthur Johnson,
president of the class, presided with dignity,
and gave with pertinence and force his official
address. The spoon oration, replete with sage
counsel to underclassmen, was given by Hubert
Bentley, who departed from the usual vein of
such speeches and held the interested attention
of his hearers throughout. The spoon was
accepted by Nevin Carman in a brief but
pointed address. Miss Marian Maffit’s history
was excellently given—new also in conception
and form, as was the prophecy by Miss Alice
Walker who, thrown by "Professor Donati"
into a cataleptic state, saw various scenes in the
subsequent career of members of the class, and
described them with her characteristic humor
and mimicry of individual foibles. Particularly
clever and effective was the climax of the
trance in which the embarrassment of the
"Professor" v as a source of much merriment
to the initiated.
The pantomime by the
Misses Sammons, Whiting, Crandall, Bathurst,
Agnew, Boyle and Proudfit, with Miss Markle
reading Browning’s "Romance of the Ganges,"
and Miss Lois Williams at the piano, was ad
mirably done. After the exercises indoors,
the class marched out to the pine tree before
Normal hall, where, grouped in a circle on the
grass, they listened to the Ivy oration by Don
ald Richey, who gave an address of remarka
ble power and interest. The scene is one that
ought to recur vividly to the recollection of
members of the class in the years to come,
when their thoughts go back to that sunny
June afternoon long ago when their class day
ended with the picture of the throng of visit
ors clad in gay summer colors, the green grass
and maples, the sobered and sombre group of
capped and gowned classmates, the red walls
of Normal hall standing silent in the afternoon
sunshine, and then with the swell of the fa
miliar "Stand Once More in Your Places," and
"Domine Salvam Fac." The complete pro
Foot Comfort
for the
Athletic Girl
In Patent
Dull Leather
or Tan
$3.50 and $4
H. G. GILLASPIE
EDINBORO, PA.
gram was:
Music-------- -----------Orchestra
President’s Address............................ .. .Arthur Johnson
Spoon Oration_____ ____ ___________ Hubert Bentley
Juniors’ Reply —................................... .. .Vincent Hays
Class Song
Class History........... ......................... ...........Marion Maffitt
Pantomime
Music----------Orchestra
Class Prophecy......................................... .. ..Alice Walker
March......................................
Orchestra
Ivy Oration_____________ ______ Donald Richey____
"Stand Once More in Your Places," "Domine,
Salvan Fac"_________________
Class
It’s a store that was founded
in 1852 on such principles
that have built for Erie
a great store.
,
THESE
PRINCIPLES
ARE:
Recommending nothing which is
not a true value; if found other
wise, a return of goods and re
fund of moneg.
Alwags on the lookout for the new
things, and when such things
are created in the fashion cen
ters of the world that co-operate
with good stgle and good judg
ment, theg're brought forth and
recommended to gou, and noth
ing that represents an exhorbitant profit
A force of intelligent sales people
striving to be of service to gou.
A store where visitors are welcome
the same as customers to stroll
about and feel at the same ease
as theg would in their own
homes.
WARNER BROS.,
ERIE, PENN'A
Page Eight
THE BIRCH ROD
Schluraff Floral Co.
Leave all orders for
flowers with The Birch
Rod. We order them
free of charge bg tele
phone.
MASONIC TEMPLE
ERIE, PA.
People’s Barber Shop
J. H BENNETT, Prop.
Shaving
Hair Cutting
Shampooing
NEWS DEPOT.
DAILY and SUNDAY.
PAPERS
'
Students atwaps welcome
DANNY SULLIVAN
Ladies' and Gents'
TAILOR
Suits Cleaned and Pressed
50c_ _ _ _
NEW SONG
A Grand Success
WINDS of MEMOR Y
Written from Edinboro
Normal School daps.
Send 15 cents for a copp.
MRS. D. G. CHURCH
Mesilla Park, New Mexico
Edinboro Hotel
E. J. SWANSON, Prop'r
Meals and Lunches at all
Hours.
ICE CREAM : SOFT DRINKS
PROUDS
Little White Store on the Corner
Lownep’s Box Candp
Ice Cream, Soft Drinks
Fruits, Cigars,
Magazines
School Supplies
rMi
Senior Play.
The comedy drama, ‘‘Diamonds and Hearts,”
was given on Tuesday evening by the Seniors
before an audience that filled the auditorium to
overflowing. The parts were well sustained
throughout and the play was one of the most
successful ever given here. Miss Bauman's
careful and thorough drill were in constant evi
dence. Hawkin’s orchestra played. The
caste was:
Bernice Halstead, a young lady of eighteen, with
an affection of the heart, a love of fun and a
hatred of arithmetic...............................Marjorie Fisher
Amy Halstead, her sister, two years younger, fond
of frolic............................................................. NinaSwift
Inez Gray, a young "lady visitor, and willing to
share in the fun................................... Mabel Sammons
Mrs, Halstead, a widow, and step-mother to the
Halstead girls..........................................Mildred Joslin
Hannah Mary Barnes, or "Sis," a maiden lady
who keeps house for her brother..........Verna Marke^
B. R. Kline '91, answered. Prof. J. A.
Cooper spoke, lauding the present Faculty and
pledging his support to the Normal until the
end.
Mrs. Angie Downing responded to
"Edinboro of the Olden Days" and J. H.
Holmes spoke on "Edinboro School Days."
J. C. Borland '88, J. W. Philips ’ 10, Rev.
Dr. D. S. Johnson '80, Mrs. Chloe Swift
McLallen '78, and H. Bentley ’ 1 3, represented
their respective classes. Prof. Baker closed
the speaking with a short address on "The
Edinboro Normal and its Future Policy."
Alumni Day is felt by all to have been a
success and arrangements are already being
made to make next year’s reunion an even
greater success.
Dwight Bradley, a fortune hunter, and Mrs.
Halstead’s son by a former marriage.. ..Ward Marsh
Dr. Burton, a young physician..................... Charles Scott
Sammy, the darky bell boy at the Halstead
house................................................................ Ethel Case
Abraham Barnes, or "Bub," a Yankee farmer,
still unmarried at forty, a diamond in the
rough...................................................
John Scott
^
Attorney.................... ............................Quincey Vincen^
Sheriff........................................................... Charles Marsh
Alumni Reunion.
Scores of the old boys and girls reassembled
at Edinboro Tuesday, June 24, to meet old
school mates and give the boys and girls of to
day a new view of the spirit of Edinbor o.
Members of many classes, from '63, repre
sented by J. N. McCloskey, to '12, returned.
The sunshine from above was added to the
sunshine on the faces of old and young alike,
and the spirit of good fellowship fitting to the
occasion prevailed.
At 10:30 the Alumni Association met in
Music hall and transacted the business for the
coming year. Officers were elected as follows:
President, Hubert Bentley '13; vice president,
Floyd Bathurst ’ 10; secretary, Francis Burch
field '00; treasurer. Dean Swift, '95; execu
tive committee, Harry Weaver 'II, Amy
Wilder '12, Herman Sackett '02, Elizabeth
Carver 'II, Roy Simpkins '08.
Resolutions were adopted regarding the good
will of the Alumni toward the present adminis
tration and expressing the respect of the Alumni
for J. A. Cooper, founder of the school. Inter
esting verbal reports were made by representa
tives of Edinboro reunions held at various county
institutes.
At 1 P. M. the annual alumni banquet, given
by the trustees, was held in Haven Hall. As
usual no effort was spared to make the place
homelike and to give all who attended an en
joyable time.
After the dinner President
George Taylor, of the Edinboro Board of
Trustees gave the speech of welcome which
Out Theg Go
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gou ever wore.
New sgring things are 'crowding in
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want to. You’ll see the qualitg at a
glance and our mirror will do the rest.
Needn’t look around, gour prefer
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