Campion Jesuit High School - Knight Yearbook (Prairie du Chien, WI)

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in hc Joyce Kilmer Library The library at Campion which is, I believe, of all memorials the one Joyce would have loved best. -Mn. Aline Kilmer, Joyce's wife. On a beautiful fall day, October 31, 1937, the bond of friendship between Kilmer and Campion was immortalized in the solemn dedication of THE JOYCE KILMER MEM- ORIAL LIBRARY by His Excellency, Will- iam R. Griffin, Bishop of La Crosse, before 2000 guests including civic, army, and re- ligious dignitaries. Specially honored guests were two of Kilmer's children, Deborah, now Sister Michael, O.S.B., and Christo- pher. The dedication was made possible by money willed to Fr. Claude Pernin, S.J., Whom Kilmer met on his Visits to Campion. Fr. Pernin, then English Professor at Cam- pion, was a brilliant teacher, writer, speak- er, conversationalist, and companion who became Kilmer's admired friend. Treasure of this 40,000 volume library is the finest display of Kilmer mementos in the country: his 51 letters to Fr. Daly, his notebook car- ried at the Front which contains his three War poems, quoted in these pages, his glasses, his Catholic identification card, his dog tag or official identification medal LAL! I he wore at his deathg the richly bound vol- umes of his complete works and those of his poet-wife, Aline, and the copy of his citation for bravery, the Croix de Guerre. KiImer's children, Sister Michael and Christopher, at the dedication of the library honoring their father. Display case an-1 iamii of personal Kilmer mementos as students see it daily.

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Vs! - f 11.1411 . '!k52-H.. I 'Wie Within the Joyce Kilmer Library the three close friends are united and live in perpetuity: the colored painting of Kilmer which hangs above the main desk is flanked by the balcony pictures of Fr. Pernin on the left and Fr, Daly on the right. The spirit of Kilmer lives on in the case of mementos viewed by students at lower left. The library is a busy place, especially at term paper time as these Seniors testify.