Ashland University - Pine Whispers Yearbook (Ashland, OH)

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The Songs Remember Old Ashland College . Remember When You re Away. Remember The Friends You ve Made Here Remember Among Those Pine Trees' Up On The Hill So Blue' That You Belong To Ashland College And Ashland Belongs To You. And Don't Forget To Come Back Some Day. rea'- . ff ' CEA if t Thus song sung before all athletic games and commencements was written by June Dltmer who graduated from Ashland In 1938 Thus song has become the memory song But there were other songs written as well and one entltled Old Ashland U was wrltten after the name was changed once agaln to Ashland College Songs forgotten are On' On' For Ashland a mllltary marchlng song s land Falr and The Plnes Are Whlsperxng to name a few Many poems quotes and qulps have been com posed by those who held a reverance and devotion to thelr Alma Mater When the 100th graduatang class slngs Remember perhaps Ezra C Packer s splrlt wlll be lrstenlng ln the Whuspersng Plnes . . H lv ' ' la 11 ' AAA h - 1 ' vy tl ' ' ' vv ' . ' tt vv v ' ' , . - Glenn L. Clayton - 1903 basketball - The old Bixler Book Store

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One tradltuon that hasn t mysteriously disappeared IS that of May Day The flrst Nlay Day was held nn 1917 but was quite a but different from the celebratlons today lt was One other function begun later was the annual fall homecoming These two functuons were the hlghllghts of the school year Untll the early 1970 s a May Queen and a dance around the Maypole was a must' But today the May Day Queen and maypole have glven way to llve bands and other forms of entertainment The tradl tional fall homecoming Queen and Court are stall observed today during this time that the students demanded some public form of a social gathering. f1 - -. . : 4 9 5 it ', 2 - -I 1 1 A' .,-1. Q . 5 , 1 - lil H 351 53-fitf rw 1 ,,,.v 1- I hw- ., - r , Vxhf-, ' A. U 55 l tit 4 9 May queen Q-:fx Y ii D231 l - Old student union

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99 , Q g NN w 2 f l N P x, ,. . by 100 years later Ashland is still train- ing young people for teaching in the pub- lic school systems. The campus expanded to include the Ashland Theo- logical Seminary for the training of min- isters and other Christian related posi- tions. ln the past two years Ashland Col- lege has given opportunities for incarcer- ated men at the Mansfield Fleformatory to earn college credit with courses taught by dedicated Ashland professors. Education and athletics seem to go hand in hand. The college was originally designed to train teachers for work in the public schools and to offer the advan- tages of a higher education for the young people of the Brethren church. - Early home ec. - 'A 1 --rw fc N ,xy 'gig A 'NK . , - The old library Another exciting Ashland class