West Virginia Wesleyan College - Murmurmontis Yearbook (Buckhannon, WV)

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In Menion- of A Friend Cecil B. Ross cainwt S(i . and I will iiol stiy Thill he is dead. He i. jiisl dii ' tix! Willi a cheery smile mid a wave oj llic luiiid. He has wandered iiilo an iniknowii land. And lefl us dreaming how very fair 1 1 needs miisl he, since he lingers there. Think of him faring an. as dear In ihe love of There as Ike love oj Here; .4nd loyal still, as he gave the bloirs Of his wariior strength to his country ' s joes — Mild and gentle as he iras brave. When the sweetest love of his life he gave To sinijjiest things; wliere the violets grew Pure as the eyes they icere likened to. The touches of his hand have strayed As rex ' erently as his lips have prayed; When the little lirown thrush that hinslih rlinied ]Vas dear to him as the mocking bird; And he pitied as much as a man in pain .1 writhing honey-bee xeel u ' ith rain. Think of him still as the same. I say; He is not dead — he is just — iiu ' iiy! [ami s Win uoMii Rii i: ' , ' lla greater tribute can be paid any man than: He was my friend, faithful and just to me? E eryone on Wesleyan ' s campus fell that way about Cebe Ross. He was sympathetic and understanding to all in any occasion. He was always a gentleman. He served his college faithfully and well. When a man does somelhing spectacular, wlien he Ijeals his way into a burning building to save someone or dives intcj an ice-filled river or picks up a bomb in his hands, the world calls tiiat heroic. .Vnd it is. But that is one act and soon over. Men who go on day after day, year after year, through dullness and tedium and strain of every kind — who go on being living examples in every act, great and small, of their faith and integrity, who hoUf fast without any reward, even pride in them- selves, and again all natmal doubts — these men are truly heroic. . nd in this sense Cebe Ross was a hero. He was a student at Vesleyan. retmncd to coacii her looiball teams and later be her alumni secretary. . number of his grid prodigies, headed by the great Cliff Battles, zoomed to professional football league stardom. He also coached such .■ ll-. inericans as Len (Feets) Barnum. As he sent his players into the line his acU ice was. Co in. Do yom- best. When Vesleyan dropped lootball alter the 1950 season he was heard to say: It is lonesome around Wesleyan without a football team. He had hoped for the day when the college could again field an eleven. No one on campus commanded more respect nor made more friends than Cebe Ross. His death on . pril 2, 1053. was mourned by all who knew him.

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Clyde O. Liiw ()kt- I ' .ltti ' MHI w E S T V I R G I N I A Ross Linger PiirktT Holloway H. Eugi ' iK- Modltii

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CECIL B. ROSS Director of Alhlt-lirs and Coadi ( 1925-UM2, 1916-195.!) West Virginia VVesleyan Oollege II