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high hope to conquer the world had been given its death blow. And some conquerors have gone forth from Plattsburgh Normal. Hundreds of cities will vouch for the efficiency of those teachers who are daily imparting the knowledge they gained at the Normal. Not all of those who were graduated have remained in the ranks of the teachers. The ranks of other professions, the law, medicine and the ministry are plentifully sprinkled with those who had their ambitions fired as they sat in the Normal classrooms. They have succeeded in other walks of life and it is not in a spirit of vain glory that we claim much of the success due to the groundwork of character that was implanted in them during their days at Plattsburgh Normal. How could it be otherwise when one looks at the long list of devoted men and women who were willing to give the best years of their lives in making those in their charge, serious, self-reliant and self-respecting men and women. Some of these instructors have grown grey in the service of the school. Dr. Hawkins, the principal, has been with it almost from the beginning. It was largely due to his efforts that the school gained the high place it held in this and other states. Others such as Dr. Henshaw and Professor Hudson have retired after thirty years of service and there are others whom those who know the school well will recall. They were proud of their school and they made a school of which we may well be proud. Out of the shadow comes the consolation that the phcenix is not such a mythological bird as was supposed and from the ashes of the old Normal there is the promise that another Normal is soon to rise — perhaps prouder and larger than the Normal we all know but never a more lovable one. Those crumbling walls casting gloomy shadows on the evening sky, those hollow walls which once echoed with life and youth, laughter and work, are charred and grim, but it cannot be said they have not done their work and earned their friends. So, farewell old school. Peace to your ashes. (Plattsburgh Daily Press. Monday, January 28. 1929.) Twenty-nine
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Cjfare)x ell, Old Cfriend For nearly forty years the Plattsburgh Normal School has been the chief source of pride of this city. We called it our own and each felt a real personal affection for the fine old building. It was one of the first places to which the visitor was taken and was probably the longest to live in the memory of those who had been taken to see the city ' s landmarks. What must have been, then, the blow to the people of this city when they realized that the Normal School was doomed. ' ' Can imagination probe the depths of feeling of the people of Plattsburgh as they saw the clouds of smoke rise into the air and the word was flashed from lip to lip that that ascending sheet of black which was darkening the sky to the west was from the Normal ' s funeral pyre? Fires we have had aplenty, but never has the present generation expe- rienced a conflagration which left them with the same dull feeling of regret as that which filled the hearts of all as they helplessly stood and watched the Normal burn. The hungry flames were merciless in their ravenous glut- tony. Not even an angry ocean following a doomed ship with lashing waves could show the rapacity of those flames which laughed and crackled in demoniacal glee as floor after floor and wall after wall fell with a crash, hurling myriads of sparks into the air. In less than an hour a few tottering walls, window openings with ghost eyes and a once majestic tower, with great strips torn out of its side, but still bravely standing was all that was left of Plattsburgh Normal. The Normal seemed to most of us like an old friend. If there can be any- thing personal about an inanimate object, that old school had a personality that was truly lovable. As it stood in the center of the campus at the head of Court Street on a gentle rise overlooking the city, it almost seemed at times as though the old school were smiling down on her boys and girls and the people of Plattsburgh over whom she seemed a friendly guardian. There was some- thing benign about the very attitude of the school which all seemed to sense and none passed without throwing a friendly eye up the wide flower-hedged avenue which led up to the main entrance. Yes. indeed, that old school was more than an inanimate mass of brick, stone and wood. It had a soul which echoed in harmony with the hopes and ambitions of thousands of boys and girls who passed their happiest days under the shadow of her tower. Within her walls and on her campus friendships were made which will last as long as life itself. In hundreds of cities and vil- lages throughout the land, members of her Alma Mater will give a sigh of regret when they learn that the brave old school whence they issued with Twenty-eight
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