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To the Class of 1928: During your period of training in the Normal School, your instructors have endeavored to keep ever before you the principle that the important things of life should receive their full measure of time, and the non-essentials only a smaller pro- portion. However, while the teacher is to a large extent the instrumentality and the directing force in the training of youth, books are the repository of the world ' s store of knowledge. You should remember then in the future so to plan the di- tribution of your time that you may find opportunity to become acquainted with the master-minds of the ages. Abraham Lincoln devoted much of his spare time to the mastery of books, the Bible and Shakspere, and the inspiration he received from these gave to the world the Gettysburg Address. You have studied a few books here; and we have tried to help you to value them as friends which you will not discard on leaving your classes. We have tried also to make, you feel a craving, for reading of a high order, so that in future choice of books, you will devote your energies to those that reflect, not the ephemeral thought of the passing age, but the eternal truths embodied in what Kuskin calls books for all time. In conclusion, do not forget that each human being is a book unto himself. Each one of you goes forth as a book fresh from the print-shop, as yet unopened and unread, which at some time or other the world may read. Elevation to some place in fame — or notoriety — may lead to the spreading of your life ' s story on the pages of the world ' s press. Preserve then the story in all its finer forms. Keep Hi. divine poetry of life clear as crystal and uncontaminated by the corrupted cur- rents of the world, so that when the Day conies and y ou join other volumes on the shelves of Time you may be so well-worn as to show the fruitful work you have accomplished. Five
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MISS ANNE O ' BRIEN Miss Anne O ' Brien was born at Fort Edward, New York. She began lier edu- cation in the public schools and later pursued the Latin Scientific course at the Fort Edward Collegiate Institute. During her two years at the latter institution, she participated fully in its social and intellectual life and as President of the Aesthetic Literary Society, displayed marked executive ability. Later still, desiring to pre- pare herself for the profession of teaching, she entered the State Normal and Train- ing School at Pittsburgh, New York, from which she was graduated in the class of 1892. receiving the honor of being selected by the Faculty as one of the Commence- ment Day speakers, in recognition of the excellence of her teaching in the Practice I )epartment. Bringing to the Normal School a liberal training and the natural enthusiasm of youth, she manifested those qualities of mind and heart which made her a leader, and soon was instrumental in organizing the Philomathesian Society, which three years later was granted a charter and became the Delta Chapter of the Agonian Sorority. The members of the Delta Chapter have recently purchased a beautiful Chapter House, the title being vested in the Agonian Sorority, Incorporated, of which Miss O ' Brien is Vice-President. After graduation. Miss O ' Brien was offered a position on the teaching staff of the public schools of this city, but had already accepted an appointment from the State Education Department, to the position of Librarian in the Normal School. In order to perfect herself in this chosen field, she took intensive work in the State Library at Albany and afterward a course at the Chautauqua Library School. Miss O ' Brien still continues to serve both teachers and students in a painstak- ing and efficient manner. Having taught only in the Pittsburgh State Normal School, and indeed spent most of her life in Pittsburgh, she has ever been loyal and devoted to her Alma Mater as well as to the city of her adoption. Miss O ' Brien holds membership in several local organizations and is also a member of the Ameri- can Library Association and of the New York Library Association. Four
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