MacMurray College - Tartan / Illiwoco Yearbook (Jacksonville, IL)

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1915 pjuj iLLiwoGo mm i-w.c ILLIWOCO STAFF. K(lil()i--iii-( ' lii( ' r Audrey Berryman Assistant Hditor Mary Louise Powell Riisiiicss Maiia«i(M ' Josephine Ross Assistant BusiiK ss M{)na »(M ' AVinifred Burmeister All Editor Feril Hess Associate Editoi ' s Helen Dinsnioi-e, Effie Theobald FOREWORD. It is with no little anxiety that we await the fate of this, the first Annual of the Illinois Woman ' s College. When we, as a class, decided to undertake the responsibility of publishing an annual, we knew that it meant hard work. But, though the laborers were few, and the trials many, there has been no tui ' iiing back, nor shirking of duties. We have received much enc ouragement from faculty, students, and friends, and we take this opportunity of thanking all who have been of any assistance to us. We appreciate your co-operation, and trust that the product of our effoi ' ts will more than compensate you. We are indebted to Mrs. C. E. Lambert for the College History and the Alumnae conti ' ilnition, and to Charles Withee, w e owe the splendid decorations on many of our pages of pictures. Special mention is due Miss Dorothy Stevens, who has contributed much to the artistic side of llliwoco. As a class, as w ell as a staff, we wish to thank her for the interest she has taken, and for the valuable assistance she has given. We must not forget to mention the I ' esults of the name contest in which so much intei-est was shown last fall. To Dorothy Stevens, Grace Heller, lary Louise Powell and Feril Hess, belongs the honor of naming the first Annual ' ' llliwoco, the first three girls having suggested the name ' ' Hlwoco, and Fei ' il insei ' ted the ' i. We would remind you that we have attempted to set a standard for future Annuals that may be lived up to, and even surpassed. We have done our best, and we now present it to you for judgment. 20

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1915 mm ILLIWOCO I.W.C I. W. C. ANNALS. Tlic stoi ' v lini ' ks l)ack lo tlie l)cj imiiiiji ' of the oi-a wlicn AVildoi-noss no longer was kiii ' ; lo lliat ha])py once-upoii-a-tinie, which dawned so hri lilly, after llie axe-iiuMi liad driven Ihat rude inoiiai ' ch l)efore them uiilil he found a liidin - phice only in the distant desolation of the sunset land. Then it was that there came from the east wise men, bringing to the scattei ' ed peoi)le of the prairies jiifts of undci ' standing, and vision to behold what niannei of kingdom might l)e estal)lished among them for the betterment of tlieii- liomes and the etnio])ling of their race; foi ' the founding of a I ' ealm wherein theii young men would gi ' ow siiiews of power, and theii young women would l)e clothed in the dignity and grace of abundant strength. And so it was that with minds thus quickened the people gladly set foi ' th to accomplish and to do all that the vision inspired. From their frugal lives, with toil and with sacrifice, they gathered material for the building of the houses wherein might be taught all that was most needful. Houses with broad foundatioiis wherein might be enacted laws for the safe-guarding of life and propei ' ty; houses with upw ard pointing spires where men gathered their fami- lies about them and kneeled in worship and in fervent appeal ; houses wherein young men assembled and under the direction of learned proctors received the ti ' aining that gave them valor to meet and to overcome difficulties without, and foes within ; and last of all, a house with columns w hite and stately, with quiet corridors and secluded gardens, where maidens might receive the knowledge that would fill their hearts with wisdom and make them to know the sweet, stern dignity of their place in the order of life. And this was the house of llliw ' oco, the Woman ' s College. Through the portals of llliwoco, in those long ago years, of near three- score and ten, there passed with faces all aglow those maidens who w ere first to enter. After them thronged others until there was not room to contain them, and builders were summoned to add yet other chambers. Such w as the The house with eolumns white and stately. ' 22